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The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love
Artist/Author: Sophie Mayer | Reference: P2421 | ISBN: 9781905674671 | Type: Publication

Drawing on archival materials and in-depth interviews, Mayer's book opens up historical, political and cultural vistas to give a full account of feminist filmmaker Sally Potter's career.

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Domestic Sanitation
Artist/Author: Helen Chadwick | Digital Reference: EF5088 | Type: Digital File

Excerpt of video documents a live performance held in the summer of 1976. Super 8 film & video, colour, sound.

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Throwing the Body into the Fight: A portrait of Raimund Hoghe
Artist/Author: Raimund Hoghe | Editor: Mary Kate Connolly | Reference: P2108 | Type: Publication

First English language publication dedicated to Raimund Hoghe, operating as a collage,drawing together a variety of international voices to create a fragmented portrait of the artist

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The Lost Runway Kyoto
Artist/Author: Aine Phllips | Reference: D1862 | Type: DVD

Collaboration between Áine Phillips and film-maker Rachel Davies. Large scale collaborative project commemorating lost women and girls. A week long workshop process generates a collection of sculptural costumes and culminates in a runway/catwalk performance dedicated to each lost girl represented. Supported by Culture Ireland, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation, Live Art Development Agency and British Council. Part of Louder Than Bombs – Art, Acton and Activism Project.

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Displacement & Difference
Editor: Fran Lloyd | Reference: P1296 | ISBN: 1 872843 22 0 | Type: Publication

On the contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.

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Carnal Art, Orlan’s Refacing
Artist/Author: C. Jill O'Bryan | Reference: P0732 | ISBN: 0-8166-4323-7 | Type: Publication

Considers how the artist’s ever-fluctuating reconstructions of her face question idealized beauty and female identity, persuasively arguing that Orlan’s surgically reinvented face succeeds in both reinforcing and breaking apart corporeal subjectivity and representation.

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This Is My Body…
Artist/Author: Orlan | Reference: V0082 | Digital Reference: EV0082 | Type: Digital File
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