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Falling through dance and life
Artist/Author: Emilyn Claid | Reference: P4189 | ISBN: 978-1-3500-7571-9 | Type: Publication

This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist Emilyn Claid draws inspiration from her personal and professional experiences to explore alternative approaches to being present in the world.

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Bastards
Artist/Author: Hayley Newman, Fraser Muggeridge | Reference: P4129 | ISBN: 978-1-912717-07-1 | Type: Publication

Artists book accompanying the exhibition Tongue-tied at Matt’s Gallery, 2-24 November 2019.

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Plantain
Artist/Author: VestAndPage | Digital Reference: EF5366 | Type: Digital File

A performance-based feature film produced and filmed on location during the month-long performance walk from Northern Germany through Poland to the Russian region of Kaliningrad, in May/June 2015.

Includes feature film, trailer, poster, stills from the movie, and film description.

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Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
Artist/Author: Ron Athey | Editor: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P2115 | ISBN: 978-1-78320-035-1 | Type: Publication

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey presents the first critical overview of this major artist’s work. It demonstrates how Athey foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded they body and identity politics in art and critical theory in the 1990s and beyond.

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Gothic Queer Culture
Artist/Author: Laura Westengard | Reference: P4053 | ISBN: 978-1-4962-1702-8 | Type: Publication

Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought the author argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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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).

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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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Misha Horacek collection
Artist/Author: Misha Horacek | Digital Reference: EF5316 | Type: Digital File

Includes:

Moon River (and project description), 2018/2019, 10:47

Nest: Inhabit (and project description), 2019, with Samantha Sweeting, 11:42

The Empty Station (and project description), 2017, with Chris Spencer-Lowe, 5:58

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Not Today How I Chose Life: My battle against the Demon within (A Love Story)
Artist/Author: Sophie Cook | Reference: P3978 | ISBN: 978-1912804504 | Type: Publication

For the first time ever Sophie tells the full inspirational story of how she conquered her demons to come out as transgender in the Premier League, run for Parliament and learn to love herself.

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Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age
Artist/Author: Helena Grehan | Reference: P3968 | ISBN: 978-0230518018 | Type: Publication

Takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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