Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, the publication addresses the conundrum of how Live Art is positioned within history.
| Editor | Adrian Heathfield, Amelia Jones |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Intellect |
| Reference | P1813 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Type | Publication |
Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades. Queer Communion, an exploration of Athey’s career, refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages.
Final Transmission is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises.
The book is the final edition of NS, Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak’s 6 volume archive of performance art and community in Los Angeles.
‘The book, that started four years ago as a possible form in which my ephemeral works could live on, gradually developed into an intensive writing project about movement and the imaginative power of language.’ Toine Horvers
This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works.
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.
La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Artists, into a pedagogical matrix suited for use as a performance handbook and conceptual tool for artists, activists, theorists, pedagogues, and trans-disciplinary border crossers of all stripes.
A Way Away uses the mode of correspondence course to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.
Issue No 10 of Substanz featuring work from Encuentro Binacional México/Suiza.
Text in German, Spanish and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Issue No 8 of Substanz featuring the work of Judith Huber.
Text in English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Artists book on Katja Schenker with photographic documentation and texts from various authors.
Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text in German.
This publication presents a web of information: the artist’s own statements- essentially descriptions and photographs of her pieces, comments and an interview- together with contributions from different authors on various aspects of Muda Mathis’ work.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text in German and English.
Text and photographic documentation of the work of Jörg Köppl and Peter Začek.
Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Text in German.