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The Clothes Make the Woman

Artist/Author: Marcia Farquhar | Reference: A0640 | Type: Article

Artist Sarah Baker talks to Marcia Farquhar about live performance, the visual, fiction and fantasy and meeting Peaches.

A guidebook for emerging artists and small arts organisations

Artist/Author: New Works | Reference: P2805 | Type: Publication

Leicester based company offers advice to individuals and groups working in the arts and voluntary sectors.

One Year Performance 1981–1982

Artist/Author: Tehching Hsieh | Digital Reference: EF5176 | Type: Digital File

In his third one-year performance piece, from 26 September 1981 through 26 September 1982, Hsieh spent one year outside, not entering buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents.

SD Video 31’ 15 video, colour, sound

Cherotic Magic Revised

Artist/Author: Frank Moore | Reference: P2790 | ISBN: 978-1515240181 | Type: Publication

Cherotic Magic is a major attempt to introduce a powerful system of magic into our modern western everyday life, thereby explosively expanding such concepts as sex and human relationships. The clear, down-to-earth text is amplified by the non-linear trance illustrations by LaBash.

pani

Editor: Brian Patterson and Laura Graham | Reference: P2787 | ISBN: 978-0-9557176-2-8 | Type: Publication

pani documents and contextualises activities of Bbeyond performance art organisation from 2001 to 2008, also covering two exchanges with Québec and Helsinki.

Public Sphere by Performance

Artist/Author: Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vujanovic | Reference: P2784 | ISBN: 978-3-942214-10-0 | Type: Publication

A critical discussion of the public sphere in the current neoliberal capitalist democracy from the perspective of performance.

Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture

Editor: Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson, Tracey Warr | Reference: P2778 | ISBN: 978-1-4724-5391-4 | Type: Publication

This book explores the relationship between place and forms of thought and creative activity, relating Outlandia, an off-grid artists’ fieldstation, and the artists there, to the tradition of generative thinking and making structures that have included Goethe’s Gartenhaus in Weimar, Henry Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and Dylan Thomas’s writing shack in Laugharne.

Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba

Artist/Author: Cocu Fusco | Reference: P2777 | ISBN: 978-1-84976-326-4 | Type: Publication

Exploring performance and politics in the post-revolutionary state, Dangerous Moves presents a fascinating survey of contemporary life and culture in Cuba through some of its most daring and experimental artists.

Collective Actions: Audience Recollections from the First Five Years 1976-1981

Editor: Yelena Kalinsky | Reference: P2783 | ISBN: 978-0982409053 | Type: Publication

Active in Moscow since 1976, the Collective Actions group played a key role in the development of conceptual and performance art in the Soviet Union. Inspired by the work of John Cage, the organizers invited audiences to take part in minimal, outdoor actions in fields and forests on the edges of the city that explored the nature of the aesthetic event. The publication concentrates on the early period of field actions when the problems of documentation—how to capture and convey ephemeral action to non-participants—were just beginning to be considered.

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.

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