Enacting Nature: Ecocritical Perspectives on Indigenous Performance

Editor	Birgit Däwes, Marc Maufort
Publisher	Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes
ISBN	978-2875741462
Reference	P3903
Date	2014
Type	Publication

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance-A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Artist/Author: Danielle L. McGuire | Reference: P4194 | ISBN: 9780307389244

In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer–Rosa Parks–to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.

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Falling through dance and life

Artist/Author: Emilyn Claid | Reference: P4189 | ISBN: 978-1-3500-7571-9 | Type: Publication

This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist Emilyn Claid draws inspiration from her personal and professional experiences to explore alternative approaches to being present in the world.

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the death of a bird at the end of the world: ritual as practices of dialoguing with sites

Artist/Author: Fernanda Branco | Editor: Chloë de Carvalho | Reference: P4184 | Type: Publication

Part of ‘series of rituals practicing ways to dialog with the natural world’ by Fernanda Branco, MA in Performance Norwegian Theatre Academy//Østfold University College.

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Art as We Don’t Know It

Editor: Erich Berger, Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, Kira O’Reilly, Helena Sederholm | Reference: P4171 | ISBN: 978-952-60-8822-8 | Type: Publication

Art as We Don’t Know It showcases art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Biofilia during the previous decade. The book features a foreword by curator and art historian Mónica Bello, and a selection of peer-reviewed articles, personal accounts and interviews, artistic contributions and collaborative projects which illustrate the breadth and diversity of bioart.

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Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)

Artist/Author: Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Editor: Emma Tramposch, Balitrónica Gómez, Elaine A. Peña, William Stark | Reference: P4170 | ISBN: 9780367219253 | Type: Publication

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

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La Sala 001: Institutions as Ecosystems

Artist/Author: Lucy Lopez, Alba Colomo | Reference: P4167 | Type: Publication

“(…) What could be good practice, in a moment like this? What is the art organisation needed for a no-future public? and what would a sustainable, feminist organisation look like?…”

The text was previously published in Who’s Art For? Art Workers Against Exploitation, edited by R-set/tools for cultural workers (Impasse) in collaboration with Rete al Femminile, postmedia books, 2019.

Edition 60/70

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Artist/Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer | Reference: P4156 | ISBN: 978-0-141-99195-5 | Type: Publication

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.

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The Arts Britain still Ignores?

Artist/Author: Jerri Daboo | Digital Reference: EF5370 | Type: Digital File

Forty years since the publication of Naseem Khan’s seminal report The Arts Britain Ignores, how much has changed?

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LADA Screens: Selina Bonelli artist discussion

Digital Reference: EF5369 | Type: Digital File

Audio of the artist in discussion with Jospeh Morgan Scholfield. Event held on 13 February 2020.

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Politics of Food

Editor: Aaron Cezar, Dani Burrows | Reference: P4128 | ISBN: 978-3-95679-516-9 | Type: Publication

Documenting the eponymous six year project as well as the current research and thinking around the subject with contributions by prominent artists, academics, activists and chefs.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights ( P3041).

Theatre Blogging: the emergence of critical culture

Editor: Megan Vaughan | Reference: P4125 | ISBN: 978-1-350-06881-0 | Type: Publication

Tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today’s digital newsletters and social media threads.

Migrants Make Culture

Artist/Author: Migrants in Culture and Keep it Complex | Reference: P4124 | Type: Publication

Materials from the activation day against the Hostile Environment policy. Organised by Migrants in Culture and Keep it Complex.

In the oversize cabinet.