Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs

Part of the Anna Birch collection ‘Fragments to Monuments’, 1 x book, 3 x DVDs. Includes DVD

In French with English subtitles. The Society of Spectacle was written and directed by Guy Debord based on his book of the same name. (Simar Films, 1973). 89 minutes.

Architectes of Air build Luminaria – monumental installations designed to generate a sense of wonder at the phenomenon of light. Drawing on the influences of traditional architecture, natural and geometric forms, company founder, Alan Parkinson, designs huge pneumatic environments that tour the world.

How do artists and curators imagine the audience in their work? How do they weave a picture of the individual viewer’s mental, physical, and emotional experience into the production of art events and what impact do these conceptions have on the finished artworks or exhibitions? Which new perspectives are useful in explaining the changes that have occurred in the art field and the concomitant new viewing positions? These are some of the questions that are the basis for Imagining the Audience.
Text in Swedish and English.

Performance Film Installation is a new publication designed to mark five years of solo and collaborative performances, films and installations by Natasha Davis, and coinciding with the London premiere of Internal Terrains at Chelsea Theatre as part of Sacred. A diverse range of authors and artists have generously responded to an invitation to provide insights into various aspects of Natasha's practice.

This publication brings together four ways of looking at Glorious, and includes: a short film made in response to six performances of the show; a music video shot in and around Lancaster and Morecambe; a critical overview of the process behind two iterations of the project; and The Glorious Storybook, a collection of essays and images from throughout the process.

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

The first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as ‘social practice’. Follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic.

Includes: Weaveair (2000); Creatures (1998); Octopus at the Shoreditch Gallery – London (1995 – 2000); M Groisman Dance Co (1997); Transference (1999)

Kalb weaves his impressive historical knowledge of theatre into detailed descriptions of marathon productions he has seen and studied.