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Girls Make Noise or Girls Make a Difference?

Artist/Author: Irina Talanova | Reference: P3233 | ISBN: 978-3659930904 | Type: Publication

An Investigation into the political efficacy of Pussy Riot’s art.

Pussy Riot Unmasked

Artist/Author: Bert Verwelius | Reference: P3234 | ISBN: 978-3832798512 | Type: Publication

Immediately after Nadezda Tolokonnikova and  Maria Alekhina were released, Verwelius contacted the two, setting into motion an extraordinary photo shoot: using the activists’ stories and sketches of the prison camp, he depicted their living and working conditions there as an impressive picture series. In English and Dutch.

Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

Artist/Author: Gregory Sholette | Reference: P3217 | ISBN: 978-0745336848 | Type: Publication

In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.

Art AIDS America

Editor: Jonathan David Katz, Rock Hushka | Reference: P3220 | ISBN: 978-0295994949 | Type: Publication

The first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently political and autobiographical voice.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum (October 2015 – January 2016)

Trans Time: Time for trans visibility in contemporary art

Artist/Author: Marie-Claude G. Olivier and Audrey Laurin | Editor: Amelia Jones | Reference: A0732 | Type: Article

On three artists taking part in the Trans Time exhibition at Confluences Gallery in Paris: JJ Levine, Kama La Mackerel, and Ianna Book.

Swimming in Sewage: Political performances in the Mediterranean

Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Editor: Richard Gough and Sam Trubridge | Reference: A0729 | Type: Article

This article narrates and analyses three instances of swimming in the Beirut sea as political performances.

Oceanic Geographies: The fluid dramaturgy of Caridad Svich

Artist/Author: Kevin Brown | Editor: Richard Gough and Sam Trubridge | Reference: A0728 | Type: Article

Looking back on the experience of directing the world premiere of Svich's play at the University of Missouri.

Confronting the Institution in Performance: Liberate Tate’s Hidden Figures

Artist/Author: Liberate Tate | Reference: A0720 | Type: Article

Weaves together the various voices for the art collective to offer readers both an analysis and an experience of the group’s performance: the inner voice of the performance; the critical voice of the witness; and the frustrating redactions reflecting Tate and BP’s hidden contracts.

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