Interviews Volume 1

An evening with artists readings of extracts from significant books held in LADA’s Study Room. Part of LADA at 20.

The first major survey of the artist’s interdisciplinary practices. Bringing together newly commissioned and other writings by major thinkers in and beyond visual and performance studies, and extensive documentation of the artist’s work from two decades of practice, it navigates through and between performance, biotechnical practices, image-making, and writing.

Calls out to freedom in the capitalist commons, within the cultural production of the high street.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Second edition of the artwork exploring the potential of Live Art to bridge generations.

Exhibition catalogue. 12/11 – 4/12 1987.  In German.

Charts the historical course of performance in Australia from the happenings of the 1960s, through body art in the 1970s, towards a more political body in the 1980s. 

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject.

Explores performance art through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video.

Interview with Ulay.

Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance.

Proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art.

Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.