Event curated by Ron Athey and Lee Adams.
Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades. Queer Communion, an exploration of Athey’s career, refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages.
Final Transmission is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises.
The book is the final edition of NS, Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak’s 6 volume archive of performance art and community in Los Angeles.
Part of ‘series of rituals practicing ways to dialog with the natural world’ by Fernanda Branco, MA in Performance Norwegian Theatre Academy//Østfold University College.
This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works.
An edited volume that explores the work of the innovative, experimental and internationally acclaimed performance artist Marilyn Arsem, with 200 images.
Issue No 4 of Substanz featuring text and drawings by Saskia Edens.
This performance arts issue is published on the occasion of Acción|MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte de Acción Madrid, November 2017.
Text in French and English.
Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
Photographs of the work of Cécile Feilchenfeldt in collaboration with Elaine Rutishauser.
Text in German.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
A collection of essays on the artist Pascale Grau with dvd of Single-Channel Videos 1994-2008.
In German and English.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
“Writing the body with the body” consists of fragments taken from performance texts by Stefanie Knobel, which are juxtaposed with a series of pictures created for this volume
Kindly donated for the Swiss live Art Study Room Guide.
One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & performance artists, is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Bonus features include two deleted scenes.
A heady brew of feminist critique of the art world and extreme body horror.
Exhibition publication: Misbehaving Bodies, Wellcome Collection, 29 May 2019 – 26 January 2020.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).