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Miranda July’s Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism

Artist/Author: Antje Czudaj | Reference: P2998 | ISBN: 978-3837633696 | Type: Publication

The first in-depth study of July’s work provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class.

Theatre and History

Artist/Author: Rebecca Schneider | Reference: P3017 | ISBN: 978-0230246614 | Type: Publication

This provocative book meets the supposedly ‘live’ practices of performance and the ‘no-longer-live’ historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the ‘and’ of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot – but often oppositional – arts and acts of time.

Theatre and the Digital

Artist/Author: Bill Blake | Reference: P3009 | ISBN: 978-1137355775 | Type: Publication

Through detailed case-studies on the work of key international theatre companies such as the Elevator Repair Service and The Mission Business, Blake explores how the digital is providing new scope for how we think about the theatre, as well as how the theatre in turn is challenging how we might relate to the digital.

Nothing Up My Sleeve: An Exhibition Based on the Work of Stuart Sherman

Artist/Author: Stuart Sherman | Reference: P2583 | ISBN: 978-098023-241-7 | Type: Publication

The book is an extension of the exhibition, composed of entries from each performer/artist celebrating the work of Stuart Sherman.

James Luna – Indian Legends, 1

Artist/Author: James Luna | Reference: P2030 | ISBN: 920159702 | Type: Publication

*currently unavailable*

One of three catalogues published for the exhibition As public as race, a series of performances organized during the summer of 1992. James Luna's performance was held on June 3. Essays by Kerri Sakamoto and Sylvie Gilbert. Includes a number of black and white illustrations.

Performing Remains

Artist/Author: Rebecca Schneider | Reference: P1888 | ISBN: 978-0-415-40442-6 | Type: Publication

Explores the role of the fake, the false and the faux in contemporary performance and investigates the aesthetic and political potential of re-enactments.

Retroflections

Artist/Author: Dickie Beau | Reference: D1819 | Type: DVD

A show about shape-shifting, sensuality and self-regard, first performed at the RVT in August 2010

Study Room Guide: Take the Money and Run? Some Positions on Ethics, Business Sponsorship and Making

Artist/Author: Jane Trowell, Platform | Reference: P1820 | Type: Publication

There are lots of guides for artists on how to earn a living from art or how to raise funds to support making it, but few which help us ask what the ethical implications are of the routes we choose. In this Study Room Guide, arts, social justice and environmental group Platform has selected some key texts that they think are useful in helping to position yourself ethically with regard to financing or supporting artistic practice through business or corporate sponsorship.

Trashing Performance,Under- and Overwhelmed: Emotion and Performance, Keynote

Artist/Author: Gavin Butt, Adrian Heathfield, Lauren Berlant | Reference: D2104 | Type: DVD

Trashing Performance Talks. Under- and Overwhelmed: Emotion and Performance (Part 1)- the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.

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