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The Star of the Show: Trademark, theatricality and ‘the grandmother of performance art’
Artist/Author: Bryony White | Reference: A0881 | Type: Article

Explores how Marina Abramović has subtly incorporated the law to her economic and professional advantage.

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Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
Artist/Author: Amber Jamilla Musser | Reference: P4027 | ISBN: 9781479830954 | Type: Publication

Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Black Performance Theory
Editor: Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez | Reference: P4026 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-5616-5 | Type: Publication

Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
 

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Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance
Editor: Nina Rapi, Maya Chowdhry | Reference: P3953 | ISBN: 978-1560231080 | Type: Publication

Draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Performance in Contemporary Art
Artist/Author: Catherine Wood | Reference: P3651 | ISBN: 978-1-84976-311-0 | Type: Publication

Proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art.

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Across the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art
Artist/Author: Martin Patrick | Reference: P3591 | ISBN: 978-1783208548 | Type: Publication

Explores the ways in which contemporary artists across media continue to reinvent art that straddles both public and private spheres.

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Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad, or Plain Ugly?
Artist/Author: Matt Hargrave | Reference: P3526 | ISBN: 978-1349700233 | Type: Publication

The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.

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

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Against The Romance Of Community
Artist/Author: Miranda Joseph | Reference: P3325 | ISBN: 978-0816637966 | Type: Publication

Explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, to contemporary narratives of economic transformation or “globalization.” 

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Real Black: Adventures In Racial Sincerity
Artist/Author: John L. Jackson Jr. | Reference: P3286 | ISBN: 978-0226390024 | Type: Publication

Drawing on more than ten years of ethnographic research in and around New York City, the book offers a kaleidoscope of subjects and stories that address how race is negotiated in today’s world-including tales of book-vending numerologists, urban conspiracy theorists, corrupt police officers, mixed-race neo-Nazis, and gospel choirs forbidden to catch the Holy Ghost.

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

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It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells - review
Artist/Author: Antje Hildebrandt | Reference: A0736 | Type: Article

Book review.

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