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Embracing the Elusive or the necessity of the superfluous

Artist/Author: Frie Leysen | Reference: A0638 | Type: Article

Belgian festival director and curator Frie Leysen challenges Australian artists and arts organisations to be bold, and to challenge an increasingly ossified status quo in her closing keynote address at the 2015 Australian Theatre Forum (ATF). Miscellaneous folder #5A.

FANON Now: Alexandrina Hemsley - documentation

Artist/Author: Alexandrina Hemsley | Digital Reference: EF5173 | Type: Digital File

Contribution by Alexandrina Hemsley for FANON Now – on the legacy of Mirage: Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire. The event brought together David A Bailey, artists from the original Mirage project, and artists from subsequent generations, to reflect on the contemporary moment in relation to structural violence, de-colonising culture and relations, and the power of aesthetics and its explorations of complex formations of racial identities.

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.

100 Acts of Minor Dissent

Artist/Author: Mark Thomas | Reference: P2779 | ISBN: 978-1910463031 | Type: Publication

An account of an entire year spent living provocatively. From successful campaigns against Royal Parks and multinationals, to arts and crafts with porn mags, from annoying estate agents, to raising cinema workers' wages, comedian and campaigner Mark Thomas stopped at nothing.

The School of Public Life: Doormats No. 4

Artist/Author: Fred Dewey | Reference: P2782 | ISBN: 978-0988937512 | Type: Publication

Drawing on two decades of interventions in politics and culture, The School of Public Life records the author’s efforts to revive and rethink public space from Los Angeles to Berlin and beyond.

Bahrain: Access Denied

Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Reference: A0636 | Type: Article

The artist’s account of being denied entry at the country of Bahrain’s border. Miscellaneous folder #4.

I Once Fell in Love with an Audience Member Practice, Performance, Politics

Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Reference: A0637 | Type: Article

In this essay, Tania El Khoury considers performance through the lens of her own practice as a live artist and as a member of Dictaphone Group, a live events project El Khoury started with Abir Saksouk. What emerges is a perspective of a contemporary artist working within the frame of performance, and how one within this frame might define their own practice through experience. In Miscellaneous Articles Folder #4.

Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement

Artist/Author: André Lepecki | Reference: P2766 | ISBN: 978-0415362542 | Type: Publication

This book examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.

Out of Line: The Story of British New Dance

Artist/Author: Judith Mackrell | Reference: P2767 | ISBN: 1-85273-038-2 | Type: Publication

A history of British new dance from its origins in the 1960s to the early 1990s.

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