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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Artist/Author: Judith Halberstam | Reference: P3719 | ISBN: 978-0814735855 | Type: Publication

Examines the significance of the transgender body and presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms – especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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Between the Body and the Flesh: Performing Sadomasochism
Artist/Author: Lynda Hart | Reference: P3721 | ISBN: 978-0231084031 | Type: Publication

Focusing on a variety of representations, the book stimulates discussions of s/m through the exploration of censorship in the arts, the fetishization of sexual paraphernalia, recombinations of class, race and sexuality, and the politics of psychoanalysis.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Michael Mayhew collection
Reference: D2303 | Type: Publication

Includes documentation of:
– Someting Tender
– 3 : 3: 3
– For Always

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Essays on Physical Practice
Artist/Author: Nik Kosmas | Reference: P3675 | ISBN: 978-3-947516-07-0 | Type: Publication

Useful and entertaining advice for developing a holistic body-mind practice.

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Prayer for the Abstract
Artist/Author: Lilach Livne | Reference: P3672 | ISBN: 978-3-947516-03-2 | Type: Publication

Resisting the control of the image, transcending from the 2-dimensional, practicing being-a-body-in-the-world.

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Body of Art
Editor: Diane Fortenberry, Rebecca Morrill | Reference: P3694 | ISBN: 978-0714869667 | Type: Publication

The first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years.

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Drycleaners of the Soul
Artist/Author: Richard Aslan | Reference: P3673 | ISBN: 978-3-947516-04-9 | Type: Publication

A practical guide for the queer ritualist.

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Performance in Contemporary Art
Artist/Author: Catherine Wood | Reference: P3651 | ISBN: 978-1-84976-311-0 | Type: Publication

Proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art.

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Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Artist/Author: Silvia Battista | Reference: P3648 | ISBN: 978-3319897578 | Type: Publication

Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.

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Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure
Artist/Author: Lynne Segal | Reference: P3635 | ISBN: 9781781687567 | Type: Publication

Examines an array of issues, including sex as a subversive activity, the “liberated orgasm,” sex advice literature, gender uncertainties, queer politics, anti-pornography campaigns and the rise of the moral right.

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