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Temporary Conversations: Aaron Hughes
An extended interview with artist and Iraq war veteran Aaron Hughes
Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.
The Bloody Sacrifice: a personal experience of contemporary blood rites
Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance
Exploring a range of topics, including Greek tragedy, Shakespearean theater, contemporary British plays, opera, and the theatricality of Parisian culture, this compilation provides new perspectives on the relationship between Eros and Death in a series of dramatic texts, theatrical practices, and cultural performances
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis
Male Trouble explores how Wetern masculinity has increasingly appeared as a troubled gender category in recent times, using a variety of performative case studies. Includes a chapter on work by Ron Athey and Franko B.
A Certain Level Of Denial
A collection of spoken word performances from the artist’s show of the same title.
Ronnie Lee
An autobiographical film about the young Ronnie Lee, victim of exacerbated religiousness
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Art and D. Daskalopolous Collection.
The Bruce Lacey Experience: Paintings, Sculptures, Installations and Performances
He could be considered a latter-day English Dadaist, but Bruce Lacey's place in 20th-Century British Art is still uncharted and ill-attended to. He goes missing in critical accounts of mid- and late-century art and this short monograph is an attempt to remedy the omission by analysing his work in relation to the shifting cultural contexts of the period.
Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Taken from banners carried in a 1992 protest outside the Guggenheim Museum, the title phrase 'Where is Ana Mendieta?' evokes not only the suspicious and tragic circumstances surrounding her death but also the conspicuous absence of women artists from high-profile exhibitions. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Judith Butler, Joseph Roach, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha, Jane Blocker discusses the power of Mendieta's earth-and-body art to alter, unsettle, and broaden terms of identity itself.
