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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Editor: Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, Johanna Burton | Reference: P4076 | ISBN: 9-780262-036603 | Type: Publication

Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Louche #1: Beginnings and Becomings
Editor: Georgeous Michael | Reference: P4075 | Type: Publication

Asking urgent questions about drag today, Louche takes a critical and constructive approach to queer performance culture: its past, present and future. Featuring contributions from over thirty artists, writers and illustrators.

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The Star of the Show: Trademark, theatricality and ‘the grandmother of performance art’
Artist/Author: Bryony White | Reference: A0881 | Type: Article

Explores how Marina Abramović has subtly incorporated the law to her economic and professional advantage.

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Connect Create Change: Leading Collaborative Arts in Ireland
Editor: Create | Reference: P4066 | Type: Publication

Five year strategy by Create, Ireland for 2020-2025

activism artist development collaboration collaborative arts ecology participation policy politics sustainability

Kiss My Genders
Editor: Hayward Gallery | Reference: P4065 | ISBN: 9781853323645 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. Hayward Gallery, 12 June – 8 September 2019

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Artist/Author: Greta Thunberg | Reference: P4057 | ISBN: 978-0141991740 | Type: Publication

The book brings Greta in her own words, collecting her speeches that have made history.

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Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
Editor: Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle | Reference: P4054 | ISBN: 978-1-77614-279-8 | Type: Publication

15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

activism Africa Africanfuturism Alan Parker Andrew J. Hennlich apartheid archive Athi-Patra Ruga belonging Bettina Malcomess black black body body Cape Tpwn Chuma Sopotela citizenship collectivism colonialism crisis curation decolonisation Donna Kukama Fees Must Fall feminism futurism Gabrielle Goliath gender gesture healing history ICA Liv Art Festival identity Iziko South African National Gallery Katlego Disemelo Khwezi Gule land reform Lieketso Dee Mohoto-wa Thaluki Massa Lemu memory mourning Mwenya B. Kabwe nation national identity Nomusa Makhubu Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga performance art politics protest queer race racism redress ritual Same Mdluli Sarah Nuttall sexuality social media Steven Cohen Tracey Rose trauma upsurge women

So Real It Hurts
Artist/Author: Lydia Lunch | Reference: P4050 | ISBN: 978-1-60980-943-0 | Type: Publication

Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection.

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Revisiting Genisis
Digital Reference: EF5334 | Type: Digital File

Follows two nurses, both named Jackie, who create biographical slideshows for patients as a tool for reflection on posthumous digital legacies, withdrawal, friendships, cultural and social loss, and memory as identity.

Part of LADA Screens 11. The film was available online 16-29 May 2016 on the LADA Screens Channel. Includes a  compilation of episodes 1 – 7, split into two files.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

biopolitics chronic illness community David Falkner death disability gender health illness legacy materiality medicine memory politics socially engaged Stanley Picker Gallery Wellcome Trust

Imaginative Bodies: Dialogues in Performance Practices
Artist/Author: Guy Cools | Editor: Lisa Marie Bowler | Reference: P4059 | ISBN: 978-9492095206 | Type: Publication

Reaffirms the central position of the body in various artistic practices through in-depth conversations with choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a light designer and a puppeteer.

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