Piercing Brightness

On Filipina labour and amateur performance in Hong Kong.

Performance Research On Amateurs pg 81-87, Volume 25. No 1 January/ February 2020.

In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer–Rosa Parks–to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.

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.

This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works.

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

A Way Away uses the mode of correspondence course to explore ideas around distance – spatial and temporal, physical and social, imagined and real.

Issue No 10 of Substanz featuring work from Encuentro Binacional México/Suiza.

Text in German, Spanish and English.

Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

A selection of artwork and text by artists Elaine Rutishauser and Klodin Erb.

In German

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Artists book on Katja Schenker with photographic documentation and texts from various authors.

Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Text in German.

This publication presents a web of information: the artist’s own statements- essentially descriptions and photographs of her pieces, comments and an interview- together with contributions from different authors on various aspects of Muda Mathis’ work.

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Text in German and English.

Text and photographic documentation of the work of Jörg Köppl and Peter Začek.

Kindly donated as part of the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Text in German.

This book focuses on the possibility of rethinking the static model of installation and exhibition and exploring the way in which ‘performative’ approaches, adopted by artists and curators alike, can reframe the exhibition and its work as an environment subject to formal, temporal or relational transformation.