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Do You Remember It - Or Weren’t You There?

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Cally Trench, Philip Lee | Reference: P2145 | ISBN: 978-0-9550951-7-7 | Type: Publication

Do you remember it – or weren’t you there? was an exhibition of work by artists and writers whose starting point was live performance. It was curated by Philip Lee and Cally Trench and presented at the London Gallery West, University of Westminster in 2013.

Art & Queer Culture

Artist/Author: Catherine Lord, Richard Meyer | Reference: P2144 | ISBN: 978-0-7148-4935-5 | Type: Publication

The first book to focus on the criticism and theory regarding queer visual art. Art & Queer Culture includes not only pictures made and displayed under the rubric of fine art but also those intended for private, underground or otherwise restricted audiences. Scrapbooks, amateur artworks, cartoons, bar murals, anonymous photographs and video installations.

Imagining the Audience: Viewing Positions in Curatorial and Artistic Practice

Editor: Magdalena Malm & Annika Wik | Reference: P2163 | ISBN: 978-91-979985-5-0 | Type: Publication

How do artists and curators imagine the audience in their work? How do they weave a picture of the individual viewer’s mental, physical, and emotional experience into the production of art events and what impact do these conceptions have on the finished artworks or exhibitions? Which new perspectives are useful in explaining the changes that have occurred in the art field and the concomitant new viewing positions? These are some of the questions that are the basis for Imagining the Audience.
Text in Swedish and English.

Yann Marussich: Notes D’inemploi (De la Performance)

Artist/Author: Yann Marussich | Reference: P2151 | ISBN: 978-2-95-4 31281-1 | Type: Publication

Documentation of Yann Marussich’s performances between 2011 and 2012. Text in French.

The Days of the Child Prodigy are Over

Artist/Author: Rakel McMahon, Bergpora Snaebjornsdottir | Reference: P2146 | Type: Publication

The Days of the Child Prodigy are Over is a project that began in 2011. It started with a dialogue between Rakel McMahon and Bergpora Snaebjornsdottir, a.k.a Wunderkind Collective, where one used drawings and the other texts to communicate. The aim being to explore the idea of the genius from the point of view of individual experience and its implicit absurdity – the conflict that arises when a person tries to search for meaning in a universe he or she can never understand the inherent meaning of.

Explosion! Painting as Action

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Magnus af Petersens | Reference: P2143 | ISBN: 978-3-86335-191-5 | Type: Publication

Explosion! Painting as Action encompasses an array of approaches to looking at the borderland between painting and performance, covering a whole range of playful experiments to aggressive risk-taking. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in 2012.

Workers - Curating Contemporary Art, Work-based MA (Inspire)

Editor: Melanie Pocock, Sacha Waldron | Reference: P2141 | ISBN: 978-1-907342-66-0 | Type: Publication

Workers includes dialogues with artists and curators working in and with institutions including Charles Avery, Bureau d’etudes, Cosey Fanni Tutti, French Riviera, Christina Holka, SW!PE, Jack Tan and Harry Watton by students from the MA Curating Contemporary Art (Inspire) Programme at the Royal College of Art.

What is/are the main challenge(s) for the performing arts in Europe in the years to come? NXTSTP

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Ruth Collier, Jasper Nijsmans, Christophe Slagmuylder, Elke Van Campenhout | Reference: P2140 | Type: Publication

NXTSTP is a joint project by: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Alkantara Festival (Lisbon), Baltoscandal Festival (Rakvere), Goteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (Gothenburg), De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam), steirscher herbst (Graz), and Theatre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (Bordeaux).

THE FALL OF FAUST: CONSIDERATIONS ON CONTEMPORARY ART AND ART ACTION

Artist/Author: Andrea Pagnes, Verena Stenke (VestAndPage) | Reference: P2135 | ISBN: 978-88-905161-0-8 | Type: Publication

What distinguishes Pagnes and Stenke from other artists is that besides their continuing practice, which has taken them to major art centres around the world, they are also interested in the theoretical aspects of communication, in decoding the hidden fabric of art and of artistic activity. This book is divided into two sections, one devoted to theoretical aspects and the other is devoted to artistic practice.

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