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Pink Labor On Golden Streets - Queer Art Practices
The publication builds on an exhibition and conference at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna that explored the contradictory standpoints of queer art practices, conceptions of the body, and ideas of ‘queer abstraction,’ a term coined by Judith Jack Halberstam that raises questions to do with (visual) representations in the context of gender, sexuality, and desire. It is particularly concerned with where form and politics crossover, citing the various combinations, juxtapositions, and the play between artistic strategies.
Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance
Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights.
Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts
Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain.
Arte para uma cidade sensível / Art for a sensitive city
The publication explores art created in public spaces in Brazil, since 2000. In Portuguese and English. Published under the Creative Commons licence.
Ocaña, 1973-1983: Acciones, Actuaciones, Activismo
Devoted to the largely forgotten Spanish artist; published for the eponymous exhibition. In Spanish, Catalan, Basque and English.
Interval Breathing Small Displacements
An overview of Poro: Brazilian company engaged in poetic, ironic and political actions. In Portuguese and English.
Situationist International Anthology
Generally recognized as the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English, this book presents a rich variety of articles, leaflets, graffiti and internal documents, ranging from early experiments in “psychogeography” to lucid analyses of the Watts riot, the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and other crises and upheavals of the sixties.
Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents
A revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English.
Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS
This volume examines the ways gay men have used theatre and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. It discusses dramatic texts and public performances–from cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions that have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS in national, regional, and local contexts.
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
A collection of creative essays — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the Fear of Diversity in America.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
