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Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS
Artist/Author: David Roman | Reference: P2877 | ISBN: 978-0253211682 | Type: Publication

This volume examines the ways gay men have used theatre and performance to intervene in the AIDS crisis. It discusses dramatic texts and public performances–from cabarets and candlelight vigils to full-scale Broadway productions that have shaped, and been shaped by, the history of AIDS in national, regional, and local contexts.

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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Artist/Author: David Wojnarowicz | Reference: P2884 | ISBN: 978-0679732273 | Type: Publication

A collection of creative essays — a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the Fear of Diversity in America. 

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Artist/Author: José Esteban Muñoz | Reference: P2885 | ISBN: 978-0-8166-3015-8 | Type: Publication

A look at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.

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Thinking Through the Body. Combative Manifestos - DIY documentation
Artist/Author: Kira O'Reilly | Digital Reference: EF5187 | Type: Digital File

Exhibition and performances inspired by a series of daily three-hour workshops in grappling/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) with experienced mixed martial arts instructor James Duncalf.

Part of LADA's DIY 10; led by Kira O'Reilly. The workshops took place at Queen Mary University of London, 14-16 August 2013.

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Every Woman
Artist/Author: Narcissister | Digital Reference: EF5188 | Type: Digital File

Video.

While spinning her naked, masked body on a stage to Chaka Khan’s famous anthem, Narcissister redresses herself from clothing she pulls out of various bodily orifices.

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Birthmark Exhibition Guide
Artist/Author: Liberate Tate | Reference: P2858 | Type: Publication

Birthmark  – a live unsanctioned performance was performed in the 1840s gallery of ‘A BP Walk Through British Art’ at Tate Britain on the 28th November, 2015, the start of the Paris climate talks.

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The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Editor: Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie | Reference: P2847 | ISBN: 978-1-78320-534-9 | Type: Publication

The book explores Weaver’s collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot.

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Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism
Artist/Author: Bojana Kunst | Reference: P2832 | ISBN: 978-1785350009 | Type: Publication

This book examines the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addresses them from the perspective of performance.

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Art As Social Practice A Critical Investigation Of Works By Kenneth A. Balfelt
Editor: Matthias Hvass Borello | Reference: P2822 | ISBN: 978-3957632760 | Type: Publication

The publication looks at a number of vigorously debated collaborative projects undertaken over the past twelve years in and outside Denmark by artist Kenneth A. Balfelt. It contains both introductions to five projects, interviews with the people involved in the projects and finally four essays trying to reflect on the impact of these kinds of artworks.

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Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance
Artist/Author: Siona Wilson | Reference: P2811 | ISBN: 978-0816685752 | Type: Publication

Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship of sex and labour politics as it played out in the making of feminist art in 1970s Britain.

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