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Franklin Furnace: Performance and Politics
Editor: Oraison H. Larmon | Digital Reference: EF5321 | Type: Digital File

A collection of archival materials in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library that represents the historical, cultural, and political legacy of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.

activism agency Amber Hawk Swanson Ana Mendieta Annie Sprinkle archive avant-garde Billy X. Curmano Bob Flanagan Carla Stellweg Cassils cyberformance DANCENOISE Diane Torr DISBAND documentation Dread Scott Dynasty Handbag ephemerality Essex Hemphill Estera Milman Flawless Sabrina Guerrilla Girls Holly Hughes Horace Brockington human rights institution Jack Waters Johanna Went Julie Tolentino Kristine Stiles Lawrence Graham-Brown leanor Antin live art Lorraine O'Grady M Lamar marginalisation Martha Hellion Martha Wilson New York City Pamela Sneed Patty Chang people of colour performance Peter Cramer poetry politics power queer race Rashaad Newsome Ron Athey Sheree Rose Sherman Fleming Shirin Neshat Tim Miller Tracie Morris trans USA Wayson Jones Zackary Drucker

Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
Artist/Author: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra | Reference: P4031 | ISBN: 9-781978-802025 | Type: Publication

What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art?  Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

activism aesthetics Argentina authoritarianism avant-garde Bible body Catholicism Chile democracy desire Diamela Eltit feminism film haptic intermedial intimacy language Latin America León Ferrari Liliana Maresca Marcos Kurtycz Mexico No Grupo nudity pain performance photography pleasure politics power Proceso Pentágono Raúl Zurita ritual sexuality violence visual art

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Limited Edition Photo Biography
Editor: Mark Paytress, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Reference: P4005 | ISBN: 9780-992657819 | Type: Publication

Genesis has selected h/er unseen and personal photographs to illustrate h/er journey of life as continuous creativity.

Limited edition; 352 / 1323. In glass cabinet.

avant-garde biography body body art Cosey Fanni Tutti counterculture Dada David Tibet fetish Fluxus gender industrial John Balance Magic monograp music pandrogeny performance art Psychic TV Sleazy Throbbing Gristle

Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects
Editor: John Bell | Reference: P3955 | ISBN: 978-0262522939 | Type: Publication

This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives.

avant-garde Bread and Puppet Theater Broadway Edward Portnoy futurism history Mark Sussman performance performance art Peter Schumann postmodernism puppetry Pyotr Bogatyrev Richard Schechner Salil Singh Stephen Kaplin Steve Tillli symbolism TDR theatre Theodora Skipitares

Text-Sound Texts
Artist/Author: Richard Kostelanetz | Reference: P3944 | ISBN: 978-0688036164 | Type: Publication

Anthology of scores, scripts, instructions, diagrams and documentation of art works that are meant to be heard. 

1960s 1970s Allen Ginsberg America Annea Lockwood art avant-garde Canada Charles Morrow Dick Higgins Emmett Williams film Gertrude Stein Guy de Coinet Jack Kerouac John Cage John Giorno Jon Gibson literature music performance writing Philip Corner Phillip Glass poetry Robert Wilson theatre USA

Franklin Furnace: Performance and Politics
Editor: Oraison H. Larmon | Reference: P3767 | Type: Publication

A collection of archival materials in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library that represents the historical, cultural, and political legacy of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.

activism agency Amber Hawk Swanson Ana Mendieta Annie Sprinkle archive avant-garde Billy X. Curmano Bob Flanagan Carla Stellweg Cassils cyberformance DANCENOISE Diane Torr DISBAND documentation Dread Scott Dynasty Handbag ephemerality Essex Hemphill Essex Hemphill & Wayson Jones Estera Milman Flawless Sabrina Guerrilla Girls Holly Hughes Horace Brockington human rights institution Jack Waters Johanna Went Julie Tolentino Kristine Stiles Lawrence Graham-Brown leanor Antin live art Lorraine O'Grady M Lamar marginalisation Martha Hellion Martha Wilson New York City Pamela Sneed Patty Chang people of colour performance Peter Cramer poetry politics power queer race Rashaad Newsome Ron Athey Sheree Rose Sherman Fleming Shirin Neshat Tim Miller Tracie Morris trans USA Wayson Jones Zackary Drucker

Ellen Stewart Presents: Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theatre
Artist/Author: Cindy Rosenthal | Reference: P3611 | ISBN: 978-0472117420 | Type: Publication

Rrelates the history of La MaMa through its performance posters, capturing the irreverence and the aesthetic of La MaMa over five decades.

Andrei Serban Angels of Swedenborg avant-garde black experimental Great Jones Repertory Company history La Mama Medea New York New York times Off-Off-Broadway race Richard Schechner Sam Shepard Tadeuz Kantor theatre Tom O'Horgan USA women

Michael Snow – Wavelength
Artist/Author: Elizabeth Legge | Reference: P3491 | ISBN: 9781846380563 | Type: Publication

An illustrated study of the “zoom film,” which has become a touchstone for art and film studies.

avant-garde criticism experimental film New York City perception theory

Vanished Paths
Editor: Elena Carotti, Debbie Bibo | Reference: P3435 | ISBN: 978-8881582785 | Type: Publication

Crisis of Representation and Destruction in the Arts from the 1950s to the End of the Century.

Catalogue of an exhibition held June 17 to August 20, 2000 at the Palazzo Bonaguro, Bassano del Grappa

 In English and Italian. 

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Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution
Artist/Author: Dario Gamboni | Reference: P3452 | ISBN: 978-1861893161 | Type: Publication

Initially galvanized by the sweeping obliteration of architecture and art under the Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, Gamboni investigates other instances of destroyed art and architecture around the globe, uncovering a disquieting and surprisingly widespread phenomenon.

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