Catalogue of entries and jury’s comments for the Taishin Arts Award 2007

In Radical Gestures, the first comprehensive history of feminist performance art in North America within the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000, Jayne Werk shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that, following a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment, made a unique contribution to the re-politicization of art.

Pod3 is an experimental performance installation developed over four days by participants of the Awakenings Festival in collaboration with Back to Back Theatre. Running time 5 minutes.

Designed to be performed in a sheltered outdoor civic space, Small Metal Objects seeks to realise the inner realm and simultaneously re-interpret the exterior urban environment as a new performance landscape. Running time 45 minutes.

Text in German and English. The Inner Voice features works by Asta Groting, with texts by Tim Etchells, Deborah Levy and Stella Rollig

Collection/selection of past works since 2000. Images, power point presentation, CV, biographic statement, review of market stall performance in Toronto by Natalie Loveless as part of International Festival of Performance. Power point presentation of images from ‘In Place of Passing’ project initiated by Conolly and facilitated by Beyond Etc.

Includes DVD. Catalogue for a conference in Vercelli and Turin in November 2010, Affective Archives. The catalogue gathers project documents, manifestos and contracts, open calls, addresses to the speakers and self-reflective essays, besides all the abstracts of papers and a selection of images gleaned from the spectatorial documentation that was specifically encouraged.

For more on Niko Raes’ work, go to www.bodyrefuse.be. Niko Raes is an Antwerp-based artist. Working with his own body in Live Art, Photography, Video and sculpture.

Point. 1: I was just listening to Radio 4 telling me about komodo dragons laying virgin birth eggs, and David Attenborough once taught me about a plant at the bottom of a sea that grows flowers, which become jellyfish, that then give birth to seeds that become plants.

Point. 2: I am a makeshift domestic goddess and my life is in a makeshift world, I’ve got all the right whisks and piping bags, but my apron is stained.

If You Want Bigger Yorkshires You Need a Bigger Tin is a show about Lucy’s ‘to trans, or not to trans’ search for her femininity.