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Artist/Author: Catherine Jiang | Editor: Supervisor/Vivenne Gaskin, Tutor/Alix Slater | Reference: P4224 | Type: Publication

Can Taiwan performing/performance art be an avant-garde strategy for cultural exchanging with Shanghai e-Art Festival?

-Referring to the changing face of British Live Art.

Research study by Catherine Jiang.

Artist/Author: Leslie Hill, Helen Paris | Reference: P4190 | ISBN: 978-1789384710 | Type: Publication

This book is packed with thoughtful exercises distilled from twenty-five years of interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching devising and performance making at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Created and curated by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris, artists who work internationally at the interface of academia and professional practice, this collection provides exercises for devising, composing, and editing original works.

Artist/Author: Marc Mouci | Reference: A0892 | Type: ArticlePublication

Issue no 5 of Substanz featuring text by Marc Mouci.

This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.

Text in German and English.

Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Artist/Author: Elaine Rutishauser, Klodin Erb | Editor: Stephan Kunz, Silvia Conzett | Reference: P4154 | ISBN: 978-3-905240-70-2 | Type: Publication

A selection of artwork and text by artists Elaine Rutishauser and Klodin Erb.

In German

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Artist/Author: Muda Mathis | Reference: P4134 | ISBN: 3-7212-0295-3 | Type: Publication

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.

Editor: Holly Crawford | Reference: P4006 | ISBN: 978-0761840640 | Type: Publication

A collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies, interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed new light on the field of collaborative art.

Artist/Author: Rosemary Klich, Edward Scheer | Reference: P3799 | ISBN: 978-0230574670 | Type: Publication

Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.

Artist/Author: Mark Edward | Reference: P3627 | ISBN: 978-3-319-69997-4 | Type: Publication

An anthology of Edward’s creative practice-led projects.  Through the innovative practice of ‘mesearch’, in which the author is both theoriser and theorised, this study delivers a personal, creative narration, combining reflections and emotions in relation to self and performance.

Editor: Roger Ely | Reference: P3608 | Type: Publication

Complete collection of Primary Sources on the International Performing Arts. Includes issues 1 to 8, (1979 – 1981). Includes originals of issues 1 (two copies), 2 (two copies), 3, and 4 (two copies), as well as photocopies of all eight issues.

In the glass cabinet.

Editor: Gabriella Giannachi, Jonah Westerman | Reference: P3580 | ISBN: 978-1138184145 | Type: Publication

Traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events.

Editor: Kirsten Lavers | Reference: P3488 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of the Idit Elia Natham exhibition at Standpoint Gallery, London. 16 January – 14 February 2015.

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

Artist/Author: Michel Groisman | Reference: P3480 | Type: Publication

Playing cards, for a performance/card game in which players are dealt body parts instead of numbers in suit. Players will combine their own cards and reproduce the combinations with their own body. When a combination is impossible to be made alone the player may borrow a part of someone else’s body to be able to continue to play.