This Sea Is Mine

“When Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil invited Célio Turino to develop a programme to democratise access to culture, no one could have imagined the extraordinary initiatives that today cross Brazil from one extreme to the other: from semi-arid sertão to the sea, from Amazônia to the fertile lowlands of the South. The Ponto de Cultura programme has provided instruments for the multiple voices of a diverse nation to find expression in music, literature, petry… Turino’s book is a map of living Brazilian Popular Culture, disseminated to every corner of a nation that is finally seeking to be a country for everyone.” -Emir Sader

Documents the work of fourteen performance artists who marked the personal and political resonances of the new Millennium in a series of site-specific actions. Contrasting with the epic, populist and homogenising nature of the official celebrations, these works focused on forgotten and ephemeral experiences, enacting small but significant interventions in the public sphere.

An introduction by Alisa Oleva to her film Walking Home, which was screened as part of LADA Screens in February 2021.

Training Utopias

Performance Research Volume 25 Issue No. 8 December 2020

Pg9-10

Fauxthentication – Art, Academia, Authorship (or the site-specifics of the Academic Artist) investigates the means of production of the art that can be created within the boundaries of artistic research.

On Filipina labour and amateur performance in Hong Kong.

Performance Research On Amateurs pg 81-87, Volume 25. No 1 January/ February 2020.

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.

An edited volume that explores the work of the innovative, experimental and internationally acclaimed performance artist Marilyn Arsem, with 200 images.

Mishandled Archive offers a way of imagining, creating and disseminating an archive.

A special edition of Substanz featuring work from Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon 2020.

In German, Spanish and English.

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Issue No 9 of Substanz featuring work from Performance Oper-Air St.Gallen 2018.

Text in German and English.

Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

A documentation of the events and survey of the work of more than 150 performance artists and contributors from France, Ghana, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States presented over the years in the festival performance series Neu-Oerlikon (Zurich).

In German and English

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.