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Everywhere is Somewhere
Artist/Author: Naseem Khan | Reference: P3483 | ISBN: 978-1-910422-39-7 | Type: Publication

Khan describes her unusual mixed family background and the pioneering role she played from the sixties onwards in the recognition of ethnic and minority arts.

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The Avant-garde: Race, Religion, War
Artist/Author: Mike Sell | Reference: P3500 | ISBN: 978-1906497996 | Type: Publication

How have avant-gardes been shaped by racism and contributed to racist power and imperialism? How have the claims made by avant-garde political and artistic groups to liberate humanity been indebted to religious intolerance? And how has the vanguard commitment to radical cultural action contributed to war, terror, and destruction? 

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Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical
Editor: Mike Sell | Reference: P3499 | ISBN: 978-0230241343 | Type: Publication

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of “vectors of the radical” shape the avant-garde.

activism Alain Badiou Alan Filewod anarchism Andrea Harris Antonin Artaud audience Augusto Boal ballet Ballets Russes Cindy Rosenthal communism culture Dada democracy Esther Kim Lee experimental Fluxus futurism George Balanchine Graham White James Harding James M. Harding Jean Graham-Jones John Cage Joy Division Karl Marx Ken Paik Hakuta Kimberly Jannarone Laura Edmondson Living Theatre Milton Acorn nationalism Patricia Gaborik performance art politics Praise Zenenga protest pungwe punk radical Raisedon Baya Robert Mugabe Rwanda Siyuan Liu theatre Uganda Walter Benjamin Yoko Ono

Jarideh - documentation and artist interview
Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Digital Reference: EF5282 | Type: Digital File

One to One performance that takes place in a public café and explores surveillance and profiling in “the war on terror.”  The eight minute video includes an interview with the artist.

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Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews
Artist/Author: Krzysztof Wodiczko | Reference: P3495 | ISBN: 978-0262731225 | Type: Publication

A collection of Wodiczko's writings on his projects.

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

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The Uses Of Autobiography
Editor: Julia Swindells | Reference: P3487 | ISBN: 978-0748403663 | Type: Publication

The contributors to this book, writing from a variety of subject disciplines and interests, explore a range of the uses of autobiography from the nineteenth-century to the present day, and from Africa, USA, the Middle East, France, New Zealand, as well as Britain.

activism adult learning Africa Alice James anthropology Ato Quayson authorship Brian Ridgers censorship Cheryl-Ann Michael Claire MacDonald Clare Bake community curating David Whitley ethnicity feminism feminist gender genre Gillie Bolton history iconography identity Jane Unsworth Janet Bottoms Janet Frame Laura Marcus literature Margaretta Jolly Maroula Joannou memory militancy Morag Styles Nadia Valman Nelson Mandela Pam Hirsch peace performance art personal politics public public sphere race representation Ruth A Symes Sarah Meer self sentimentality slavery social change social context suffragette testimony Victorian war Winnie Mandela Wole Soyinka women World War II writing

The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970S, History and Impact
Editor: Norma Broude, Mary D Garrard | Reference: P3510 | ISBN: 0-8109-3732-8 | Type: Publication

Since its inception nearly 25 years ago, the feminist art movement has transformed the art world. Now, two professors of art history bring together 18 influential historians, critics, and artists to create this landmark volume.

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

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Acting Out: Feminist Performances
Editor: Lynda Hart, Peggy Phelan | Reference: P3492 | ISBN: 978-0472064793 | Type: Publication

The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.

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

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If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism
Artist/Author: Martha Rosler | Editor: Brian Wallis | Reference: P3497 | ISBN: 978-0941920186 | Type: Publication

Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.

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

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Moochers, dreamers, wasters, vagabonds and doodlers
Artist/Author: Gillian Whiteley | Reference: P3475 | Type: Publication

The art of sloth and reverie as oppositional (in)activities.

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