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The Pornography of Performance
Artist/Author: The Sydney Front | Reference: D2311 | ISBN: 978-1-922007-33-9 | Type: DVD

A frenzied meditation on theatrical obsession, a festive overture of histrionic suffering and flapping genitalia. In the glass cabinet. 

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How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aboriginal Contemporary Art
Editor: Ian Maclean | Reference: P3921 | ISBN: 978-0909952372 | Type: Publication

The first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal Art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. 

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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Performing the UnNameable: Anthology of Australian Performance Texts
Editor: Karen Pearlman, Richard James Allen | Reference: P3922 | ISBN: 978-0868194202 | Type: Publication

Sheds light on a range of practices in the area of contemporary performance in Australia.

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Civic Actions: Artists’ Practices Beyond the Museum
Editor: Blair French, Anne Loxley | Reference: P3917 | ISBN: 9781921034831 | Type: Publication

Focuses on the intersection of social and public projects, and the possibilities of art practice in public space.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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Staging Queer Feminisms: Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015
Artist/Author: Sarah French | Reference: P3916 | ISBN: 978-1137465429 | Type: Publication

Examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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Performance Ritual Document
Artist/Author: Anne Marsh | Reference: P3913 | ISBN: 978-1921394973 | Type: Publication

Explores performance art through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video.

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William Yang: Stories of Love and Death
Editor: Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer | Reference: P3910 | ISBN: 978-1742234601 | Type: Publication

Features images from Yang’s personal archive and explores his self-portraiture across photography, performance and documentary.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance
Artist/Author: Helena Grehan | Reference: P3906 | ISBN: 978-9052019475 | Type: Publication

An important addition to the current body of scholarly material on contemporary performance and theatre; it provides both a detailed focus on a number of important performance works as well as developing a framework for the interpretation of contemporary performance.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma
Editor: Bryoni Trezise, Caroline Wake | Reference: P3907 | ISBN: 9788763540704 | Type: Publication

Brings the fields of performance studies and trauma studies together in conversation where they inform crucial themes such as trauma, testimony, witness, and spectatorship.

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The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Artist/Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson | Reference: P3793 | ISBN: 978-0816692163 | Type: Publication

Explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless.

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