Explores how different concepts of time – including linear clock time, the cyclical time of the planets and seasons, the rhythms of the body and individual memories – have impacted on and been reinforced by theatre throughout history, from medieval times to the present day.
| Artist / Author | David Wiles |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN | 978-1137343864 |
| Reference | P3004 |
| Date | 2014 |
| 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.
An evening with artists readings of extracts from significant books held in LADA’s Study Room. Part of LADA at 20.
Video documentation of the book launch, as part of LADA Screens. Includes 4 videos.
Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.
The first substantial survey of its kind, the publication brings together documentation of performances, drawings, videos, installations, and sculptures, as well as writings, interviews and visual essays by the artist. A series of commissioned critical essays show her to be a prolific maker of acts, objects, and multiple ‘selves’.
15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
. An introduction to performance in the territory of art: far from proposing a linear history, the volume offers a series of thematic and transversal approaches to performance.
In Spanish.
Follows two nurses, both named Jackie, who create biographical slideshows for patients as a tool for reflection on posthumous digital legacies, withdrawal, friendships, cultural and social loss, and memory as identity.
Part of LADA Screens 11. The film was available online 16-29 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes a compilation of episodes 1 – 7, split into two files.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A short video derived from the photographs, rehearsal footage and other documentation of And I – a single channel eight-hour video of Marcia Farquhar speaking without edits of sustained pauses.
Part of LADA Screens 7.The film was availble online between 24 Feb and 9 March on the LADA Screens Channel.
The fourteen essays bringing together a unique gathering of artists, many of whome make works which arise out of responses to the situation or the environment in which they find themselves.
Considers the inter‐disciplinarity of ‘Live Art’ as a field of work and as a performance practice.
From the British Live Art: Essays and Documentation issue.
An evening considering questions of archives and legacies through the art and lives of four extraordinary and influential artists who have died in recent years – Ian Hinchliffe, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Lol Coxhill and Roger Ely. Inspired by the acquistion of the Ian Hinchliffe archive by Queen Mary.
16 November 2017