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Staging an Exilic Autobiography: On the pleasures and frustrations of repetitions and returns
Artist/Author: Natasha Davis and Yana Meerzon | Reference: A0718 | Type: Article

Expanding on the ideas of double wound (Caruth) and nostalgia (Aciman), this article discusses Davis' poetic autobiographic performances as examples of the terror and relief of repeating exilic pain.

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Because of Hair; The Dichotomy of Culture and Identity
Artist/Author: Vivian Chinasa Ezugha | Reference: P3180 | Type: Publication

Using memories of her experience of masquerades in Nigeria, the artist employs movement and masks of hair as power objects, which conceal and reveal the black body, the black female.

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Create News: Selina Thompson - Gender, Performance, Identity
Artist/Author: Lynnette Morgan | Reference: P3184 | Type: Publication

Interview conducted by Lynnette Morgan, as part of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme residency. 

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Queer Dramaturgies
Editor: Alyson Campbell and Stephen Farrier | Reference: P3168 | ISBN: 978-1137411839 | Type: Publication

Starting from the premise that live performance is experienced in a material, local context, the chapters analyse the intricate and complex workings of queer dramaturgy within specific venues, cities, nations or transnationally.

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Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
Artist/Author: Imogen Tyler | Reference: P3156 | ISBN: 978-1848138513 | Type: Publication

Explores the processes through which specific populations are figured as ‘revolting’ as well as the practices through which these populations ‘revolt’ against their subjectification.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)

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Popular Culture and Gender Issues in Miwa Yanagi’s Art Practice
Artist/Author: Krestina Skirl | Reference: A0712 | Type: Article

A critical approach towards images of identity and femininity currently circulating in Japanese popular culture.

Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)

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Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
Artist/Author: Lynne Segal | Reference: P3143 | ISBN: 978-1781681398 | Type: Publication

In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Looks at many of the issues facing the aged – the war of the generations and baby-boomer bashing, the politics of desire, the diminished situation of the older woman, the space on the left for the presence and resistance of the old, the problems of dealing with loss and mortality, and how to find victory in survival.

Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)

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Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960
Editor: Amy Bryzgel | Reference: P3115 | ISBN: 978-1784994228 | Type: Publication

Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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Latifa Echakhch
Editor: Florence Derieux | Reference: P3114 | ISBN: 978-3037642009 | Type: Publication

The artist investigates cultural transfer and displaced identity through installation, sculpture, video and performance, culturally stereotyping artefacts such as flagpoles, Moroccan tea glasses and India ink in her art. Exhibition catalogue.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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Acting Together Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Editor: Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, Polly O. Walker | Reference: P3116 | ISBN: 978-0981559391 | Type: Publication

A series on Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. The first volume emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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