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Antidote to Oblivion

Artist/Author: Áine Phillips | Reference: A0683

Phillips dicusses the making of Performance Art in Ireland: A History.

Theatre and History

Artist/Author: Rebecca Schneider | Reference: P3017 | ISBN: 978-0230246614 | Type: Publication

This provocative book meets the supposedly ‘live’ practices of performance and the ‘no-longer-live’ historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the ‘and’ of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot – but often oppositional – arts and acts of time.

Theatre and Museums

Artist/Author: Susan Bennett | Reference: P3003 | ISBN: 978-0230580206 | Type: Publication

Bennett looks at the collaborative processes that intertwine these two cultural practices. She argues that discourses of performance studies can open up new avenues of inquiry about the production and reception of the museum experience and its place in contemporary culture.

Anna Birch archive

Reference: P2992 | Type: Publication

Includes The Wollstonecraft Live Experience! programmes and materials, two programmes for the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, and a list of publications.

Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance

Artist/Author: Andre Lepecki | Reference: P2985 | ISBN: 978-1138907713 | Type: Publication

Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.

Stuart Brisley: Performing the Political Body and Eating Shit

Artist/Author: Michael Newman | Reference: P2994 | ISBN: 978-0-9575299-2-2 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Stuart Brisley: Headwinds, MAC Belfast, 30 January-26 April 2015.

The Peterlee Project 1976-1977

Artist/Author: Stuart Brisley | Reference: P2993 | ISBN: 978-87-93108-12-7 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of Brisley’s exhibition State of Denmark at Modern Art Oxford, September-November 2014.

So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance

Artist/Author: Patrick Anderson | Reference: P2981 | ISBN: 978-0822348283 | Type: Publication

Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

PSI#12 documentation

Digital Reference: EF5224 | Type: Digital File

Short and long trailer for Performing Rights, a festival of creative dialogues between artists, academics, activists, and audiences investigating relationships between human rights and performance.

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