Performing Idea: Reciprocal Aesthetics

Editor: Roberta Mock & Mary Paterson | Reference: P4103 | ISBN: 9781789380910 | Type: Publication

Analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices.

Artist/Author: Ron Athey | Editor: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P2115 | ISBN: 978-1-78320-035-1 | Type: Publication

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey presents the first critical overview of this major artist’s work. It demonstrates how Athey foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded they body and identity politics in art and critical theory in the 1990s and beyond.

Artist/Author: Sarah Jane Cervenak | Reference: P3774 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-5715-5 | Type: Publication

Ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Artist/Author: Lara Shalson | Reference: P3716 | ISBN: 978-1108426459 | Type: Publication

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.

Artist/Author: Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Reference: A0844 | Type: Article

Excerpt from the publication Two Chicanos on the Road.

Editor: Eleanor Turney | Reference: P3583 | ISBN: 9780993561177 | Type: Publication

Reflects on CAPP (Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme), which took place 2015-2018.

Editor: Paul Clarke, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye, Johanna Linsley | Reference: P3581 | ISBN: 978-1138929784 | Type: Publication

Explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a collection of critical writings and original artworks, 

Editor: Eleonora Fabião, André Lepecki | Reference: P3555 | ISBN: 978-85-69099-02-4 | Type: Publication

A chronology of actions she performed between 2008 and 2015. The book was made in a limited edition, to be given, received, traded, lost, found, purposely lost lost, donated lent, passed on – and never sold.

Artist/Author: Bryony Stone | Reference: A0830 | Type: Article

An interview conducted at LADA’s new home in the Garrett Centre, Bethnal Green attempts to find out why the artist gave over his life to art.

Editor: Nicola Kearton | Reference: P3545 | ISBN: 978-1854902290 | Type: Publication

Highlights the various aspects of particular interest and activity which make the British scene distinctive and exciting. 

Artist/Author: Matt Hargrave | Reference: P3526 | ISBN: 978-1349700233 | Type: Publication

The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Artist/Author: Katie Etheridge and Simon Pergishetti | Digital Reference: EF5269 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from the DIY 12 project: can you start a University of Live Art in your front room, garden shed or local pub?