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Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

Artist/Author: Uri McMillan | Reference: P2837 | ISBN: 978-1479852475 | Type: Publication

Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects.

Other Hospitalities: Reflections on Chris Goode’s Ensemble Ponyboy Curtis

Editor: Maddy Costa | Reference: A0644 | Type: Article

Includes reactions by Good, Megan Vaughan, Costa and Simon Bowes. 

Who Cares? Dance in the Gallery & Museum

Artist/Author: Sara Wookey | Reference: P2809 | ISBN: 978-0992797416 | Type: Publication

A series of conversations with dance artists, curators and directors, who share their experiences of presenting or performing dance in museum and gallery spaces.

State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Artist/Author: Constance M. Lewallen and Karen Moss | Reference: P2786 | ISBN: 978-0520270619 | Type: Publication

This companion book to the exhibition of the same name investigates California’s vital contributions to Conceptual art—in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists.

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P2760 | ISBN: 978-1-137-32220-3 | Type: Publication

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art.

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Embodied Places: Performance Practices in Public Space

Artist/Author: Nathalie Fari, et al. | Reference: P2730 | ISBN: 978-3-00-049454-3 | Type: Publication

This catalogue explores different artistic strategies, notions and formats for developing performances in public space, using specific sites in Berlin as platforms to “embody” the city. Featured authors/artists: Bettina Wagner, Dovrat Meron, Grasiele Sousa & Lucio Agra, Michaela Muchina, Nathalie Fari, Paula Hildebrandt 

My Body is the Event Vienna Actionism and International Performance

Artist/Author: Various | Reference: P2735 | ISBN: 978-3-902947-22-2 | Type: Publication

This exhibition booklet looks closely at the performative aspects of the action work by Vienna Actionists Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler contrasted with works by significant international practitioners of performance art, such as Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Gina Pane, Neša Paripovic, Ewa Partum, Carolee Schneemann, and VALIE EXPORT.

Performance as Archive Archive as Performance

Artist/Author: Thomas Crombez, et al. | Reference: P2723 | ISBN: 978-94-9052-121-9 | Type: Publication

This publication is an edition of Track Report dedicated to the archive of the event. The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp introduces two performance artists – Harry Gamboa, a Los Angeles-based Chicano artist, and Ria Pacqué, a Belgian body and performance artist – to the master students and to the Belgian art audience through a week of lectures, seminars, explorations and actions here documented. 

El lenguaje de los pájaros

Artist/Author: Felipe Osornio / Lechedevirgen Trimegisto | Digital Reference: EF5151 | Type: Digital File

Part of “Negación y Utopía” (“Nagation and Utopia”), the first National Festival of Performance of Mexico, 6-29 November 2013, a platform showcasing work on Mexican identity and multicultural hybrids. This documentation includes recordings of the performance, exerpts, and interviews with the artist. Spanish language.

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