Performing Borders: A Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art

Artist/Author: Adesola Akinleye, Isaac Briggs, Jennifer Cooke, Laurie Crow, Thomas Dawkins (aka Cara Noir), Tara Fatehi Irani, Julia Giese, Martin Hargreaves, Claire Heafford, Joe Moran, Laura Purseglove, Kesha Raithatha, Raju Rage, Nat Thorne, Claire Warden, Sam West and Sam Williams. | Editor: Laura Purseglove | Reference: p4205 | ISBN: 978-1-8380229-0-7 | Type: Publication

Featuring conversations, essays, drawings and photographs, Bodies of Knowledge(Ed. Laura Purseglove) reflects and builds on an interdisciplinary project involving artists, amateur and professional dancers, wrestlers, members of a trans community group and academic researchers interrogating how our bodies are both produced by and productive of knowledges.

Artist/Author: Toine Horvers | Reference: P4195 | ISBN: 978-9-08-300382-5 | Type: Publication

Toine Horvers’ artworks in space and time, photographed by Henk Geraedts.

Text in English and Dutch

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.

Artist/Author: The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home | Reference: P4176 | ISBN: 978-0-9564165-5-1 | Type: Publication

10 is the latest and last publication from The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home (2008 – 2018) and looks at 10 persisting problems of the past 10 years, featuring an array of critical and inspiring voices The Institute has worked with over the last decade.

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.

Artist/Author: Maddy Costa, Andy Field | Reference: P4168 | ISBN: 9781350190641 | Type: Publication

An anthology of critical essays that draw on a decade of the authors thinking, writing about and working within contemporary performance as critics, producers, dramaturgs, makers, archivists and more.

Artist/Author: Gisela Hochuli | Reference: D2322 | Type: DVD

A discussion in 17 thematic segments. 53 minutes.

Reference: D2321 | Type: DVD

Recounts the group’s evolution and different approaches to collaboration throughout the years. Two DVDs include a documentary, interviews with BMI members, and performance footage.

Artist/Author: Isabelle Choinière, Enrico Pitozzi, Andrea Davidson | Reference: P4126 | ISBN: 978-1789380798 | Type: Publication

Editor: Gisela Hochuli, Konrad Tobler | Reference: P4120 | ISBN: 9523742 | Type: Publication

Documents Bern’s performance scene. In German.

Artist/Author: VestAndPage | Digital Reference: EF5367 | Type: Digital File

A performance-based short film, in which the artist inquire through bodily actions the creation and function of visible and invisible signs in response to the geologic.

Includes the film, trailer, stills, and film description.

Artist/Author: Fred Moten | Reference: P4115 | ISBN: 978-0822370550 | Type: Publication

The concluding volume to Moten’s landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being.