Human Futures – Art in an Age of Uncertainty
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Artistic artefacts, original quotations and creative writing that considers the social impact of technology for humanity.
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I Love You Too
I Love You Too is a project from a visual artist focused on the writing of letters, shifting the focus from how a community uses a library to how it creates one – a library, in this case, of love. The stories in this book were told during the COVID-19 pandemic by more than 100 people from across Manchester. Through in-person and online interviews with 11 writers, their testimonies were transformed into this collection of love letters. To ensure all those involved felt safe and supported while sharing their deeply personal stories, well-being managers were on hand at every stage of the process. By way of thanks, each participant was gifted a portrait created at the time of their interview. Thank you to the people of Manchester for sharing these beautiful and personal stories with us.
South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere spent MIF19 in residence in Manchester’s network of libraries – and two years on, published I Love You Too, a beautiful book inspired by the time he spent in the city.
At the start of 2021, Wa Lehulere invited more than 100 people from across Manchester to share with us their love stories: to people, to places, even to possessions. Through a series of online and in-person meetings, a group of 11 Manchester writers put their words on to the page. The result is I Love You Too, a personal, powerful and inspiring 232-page hardback book of love letters rooted in our city – and the first in an international series.
LADA at 20: Interview with LADA Founder Lois Keidan
An interview with Lois Keidan on the history of the Live Art Development Agency, recorded in 2019 to mark LADA’s 20th Anniversary.
Alternative Realities: A Discussion on Live Art and Gaming with Symoné
Audio documentation of a conversation on Live Art and Gaming, led by Symoné on 30th November, 2024, at The Garrett Centre.
Symoné shared her process of creating her work Dream Within A Dream and then opened up to a group discussion about how Live Art, technology and gaming intersect with queerness and alternative narratives. This event was part of a Study Room Session on Live Art and Gaming. Find out more
This is an audio file. A captioned version is available as a video on our vimeo channel
Between Journeys : an Interview with Lee Wen
Performance Research Vol 6. No. 1. Spring 2001
Departures
The first of three related issues which engage with the migrations of people, performance and performance cultures, generating writing around differing geographies and histories of travel and travelling performance in a diversity of written and visual forms.
Between Journeys : an Interview with Lee Wen
Woon Tien Wei
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Art as We Don’t Know It
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.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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.
Politics of Food
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).
Through the Prism of the Senses
Archives of the Ephemeral
Publication about the project which brought questions of archiving performance art to a broader public. In German and English.
Berner Almanach 6: Performance
Documents Bern’s performance scene. In German.
The Undercommons: Fugitive planning & black study
Draws on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition to support, inspire and extend contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique.
Video/Art: The First Fifty Years
The curator who founded MoMA’s video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium.
