Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Minds

Artist/Author: Bobby Baker | Editor: Michèle Barrett | Reference: P4222 | ISBN: 978-0415444118 | Type: Publication

This fully-illustrated book brings together for the first time an account of Baker’s career as an artist – from her first sculptures at Central St Martins in the early 1970s to her most recent work, ‘How to Live’ and ‘Diary Drawings’ – with critical commentary by reviewers and academic practitioners.

Artist/Author: Dolly Sen | Reference: P4219 | Type: Publication

A Study Room Guide by writer, filmmaker, artist, performer and activist Dolly Sen looking at madness and mental health

Digital Reference: EF5382 | Type: Digital File

Documentation of the event which featured a screening of Theatre Visionary, a documentary about Abdoh, as well as a discussion with film’s director Adam Soch and director and academic Alyson Campbell.

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).

Artist/Author: Charlotte Cooper | Digital Reference: EF5365 | Type: Digital File

Explores fat activist language.

Digital Reference: EF5358 | Type: Digital File

Videos by artists exploring Live Art and disability. Including videos commissioned for LADA’s “Access All Areas: Live Art and Disability” programme in New York, 2014.

Artist/Author: Andrew Coltrin | Reference: P4095 | Type: Publication

A glossary of terms that come up during the desperate search for meaning that comes with an Asperger’s Syndrome diagnosis. I went through it. I know other people go through it. There are plenty of books, either more clinical, or more autobiographical out there. This one cuts straight through shackles of narrative to provide discrete chunks of information in an easy to navigate, dictionary format.

Editor: Oreet Ashery, George Vasey | Reference: P4093 | ISBN: 978-88-6749-391-3 | Type: Publication

Exhibition publication: Misbehaving Bodies, Wellcome Collection, 29 May 2019 – 26 January 2020.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Artist/Author: Fiona Anderson | Reference: P4086 | ISBN: 9780226603759 | Type: Publication

Draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the role of abandoned landscape in this explosion of queer culture in NYC.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Artist/Author: Jon John | Digital Reference: EF5347 | Type: Digital File

Draws strength from conversations with the performance artist Ron Athey and readings from Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag.

Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.

Digital Reference: EF5334 | Type: Digital File

Follows two nurses, both named Jackie, who create biographical slideshows for patients as a tool for reflection on posthumous digital legacies, withdrawal, friendships, cultural and social loss, and memory as identity.

Part of LADA Screens 11. The film was available online 16-29 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes a  compilation of episodes 1 – 7, split into two files.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Artist/Author: Adam Soch | Digital Reference: EF5311 | Type: Digital File

An intimate portrait of the world and work of Abdoh and his company.