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Polvo (Octopus)

Artist/Author: Michel Groisman | Reference: P3480 | Type: Publication

Playing cards, for a performance/card game in which players are dealt body parts instead of numbers in suit. Players will combine their own cards and reproduce the combinations with their own body. When a combination is impossible to be made alone the player may borrow a part of someone else’s body to be able to continue to play.

Shadowing Josephine

Artist/Author: Jade Montserrat | Digital Reference: EF5273 | Type: Digital File

A anguage, a tool to articulate a series of ideas: how outrage and prejudices can be performed; perceptions of the savage and barbaric heathens; tribal nuances and thinking about the Paris of the 1920s as a site of inequality; the spate of negrophilia there; how a change of circumstance for women was reinforced by the war; cultural diversity and tolerance; exoticism and anti-colonial; therefore, transgressive behaviours.

Oh Yes! Oh No!: A Good Girl’s Guide to Liberating Your Orgasm

Artist/Author: Louise Orwin | Digital Reference: EF5264 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from the DIY 13 project: a performance artist and novice sexual deviant attempts to liberate your orgasm via a journey through Leeds’ sex scene.

Tender Blood

Artist/Author: Sheree Rose and Amy Kingsmill | Digital Reference: EF5272 | Type: Digital File

A union using violence as a language to express affection.

En un Fist Fast

Artist/Author: La Congelada de Uva | Digital Reference: EF5281 | Type: Digital File

Abjection builds awareness of post-porn power, which breaks away from the outdated distinction between eroticism and pornography.

PASSION/Flower

Artist/Author: Ernst Fischer and Nicola Canavan | Digital Reference: EF5275 | Type: Digital File

Inspired by a ritual known as Matam, which takes place in the Shiite ceremony of Ashura, the performance transcends its origins, becoming an action that opens the body to a trance state of rhythm & ritual practice.  

Hermana

Artist/Author: Regina José Galindo | Digital Reference: EF5278 | Type: Digital File

The artist's body is spit on and punished by an indigenous Guatemalan woman.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041)

Perra

Artist/Author: Regina José Galindo | Digital Reference: EF5274 | Type: Digital File

Guatemalan artist carvs the letters P-E-R-R-A (bitch) into her thigh, the same word carved onto the many victims of her country’s feminicide crisis.

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

Himenoplastia

Artist/Author: Regina José Galindo | Digital Reference: EF5279 | Type: Digital File

A surgery reinstates the hymen.

No Nudity, Ducks or Amateur Wrestling OR

Editor: Deidre Heddon and Misha Myers | Reference: A0767

What happens when you give a live artist the keys to the library?

Donation