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The Mums and Babies Ensemble: A Manual

Artist/Author: Duška Radosavljević, Annie Rigby, Lena Šimić and babies Joakim, Nina and James | Reference: P2795 | ISBN: 978-0-9564165-3-7 | Type: Publication

The Mums and Babies Ensemble was a series of public workshops and events convened by three mums/theatre-makers and their babies. It was prompted by the desire to integrate the structure and chaos of performance-making and motherhood, to create a space that would meet the needs of the parents and babies equally, to capture some memories, to grow a community, and to pass something on eventually.

By institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home.

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.

Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings

Artist/Author: Judith F. Rodenbeck | Reference: P2798 | ISBN: 978-0262526128 | Type: Publication

Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.

Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Artist/Author: Untitled Projects | Reference: P2789 | ISBN: 978-1783199495 | Type: Publication

In 1987, Paul Bright, a rebellious young Scottish director set out to stage James Hogg’s cult novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner in a series of radical productions across Scotland. In 2010, Untitled Projects began work with the actor George Anton to assemble an archive and exhibition of this almost-forgotten feat of theatre.

Other Theatres: The Development of Alternative and Experimental Theatre in Britain

Artist/Author: Andrew Davies | Reference: P2748 | ISBN: 0-333-32435-8 | Type: Publication

An introduction to the important tradition of alternative and experimental theatre in Britain as it has developed over 200 years.

Dreams and Deconstructions: Alternative Theatre in Britain

Editor: Sandy Craig | Reference: P2750 | ISBN: 090639919X | Type: Publication

An illustrated account of the development of alternative theatre in Britain over the 60s and 70s.

Performance Art: Memoirs Volume 1

Artist/Author: Jeff Nuttall | Reference: P2756 | ISBN: 0714537888 | Type: Publication

This first volume of ‘Performance Art’ is the personal story of Jeff Nuttall’s life in the arts, especially in performance work: amusing, polemical and controversial.

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Disrupting the spectacle: Five years of experimental and fringe theatre in Britain

Artist/Author: Peter Ansorge | Reference: P2755 | ISBN: 0273002554 | Type: Publication

This publication documents the development of British theatre from 1968 to 1973. 

The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images

Artist/Author: Joe Kelleher | Reference: P2722 | ISBN: 978-0415748278 | Type: Publication

A book about theatricality and spectatorship in the early twenty-first century. In a wide-ranging analysis that draws upon theatrical, visual and philosophical approaches, it asks how spectators and audiences negotiate the complexities and challenges of contemporary experimental performance arts.

Situation Rooms: Ein Multiplayer Videostück /// A Multiplayer Video Piece

Artist/Author: Rimini Protokoll | Reference: P2732 | Type: Publication

This catalogue documents the multimedia performance project “Situation Rooms” – a multiple simultaneous cinema, augmented reality, and three-dimensional theatre experience.

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