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Survival of the Sickest - the art of Martin O’Brien
The first book bringing together writing and documentation on Martin O’Brien and marking ten years of his work.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Materials of Resistance
Coinciding with a solo exhibition which presented new pieces alongside selected earlier mixed media works from the past decade, this publication contains contextual and experimental texts by writers, artists, academics.
Women, the arts and globalization
The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women’s art practices provide a fascinating instance of women’s eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization.
Thought in the Act
Combining philosophy and aesthetics, this is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking.
Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice
Draws upon cognitive and affect theory to examine applications of contemporary performance practices in educational, social and community contexts. The writing is situated in the spaces between making and performance, exploring the processes of creating work defined variously as collaborative, participatory and socially engaged.
Because of Love: Franko B’s Story
Because of Love tells the story of the artist’s childhood in Italy in an orphanage and at the hands of his abusive family, his journey to London as a young man, his return to Italy many years later as an accomplished artist, and, in between, the story of his life and loves and his becoming an artist.
Venice International Performance Art Week 2016 - Fragile Body - Material Body
Post-event hard cover catalogue documenting the exhibition and live performances presented at the III Venice International Performance Art Week. 10-17 December 2016.
Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
Does art have a sex? A study of Lucas’s famous assemblage of objects that suggest male and female body parts.
From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.
Marina Abramović: Cleaning the House
A monograph produced and designed in close collaboration with the artist; forms a personal scrapbook of her life and influences, ranging from Buddhism, the aboriginals of Australia and religious iconography, to Western artists such as Joseph Beuys.
