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Fragmented Stories

Artist/Author: Ray Newe | Reference: A0405 | Type: Article

Review of England Stories and Certain Fragments.

Saint Orlan: Ritual as Violent Spectacle and Cultural Criticism

Artist/Author: Orlan, Alyda Faber | Reference: A0386 | ISBN: 0-262-75805-9 | Type: Article

The French performance artist’s practice of self-directed violence creates a spectacle that violates the viewer and establishes Orlan’s body as “a site of public debate.” Her work radically exposes the violence of patriarchically established “beauty standards.”

Tailing ‘TRACE/Y’

Artist/Author: susan pui san lok | Reference: A0380 | Type: Article

Review of the 1999 Liverpool Biennial.

Good Luck Everybody. Lone Twin Journeys Performances Conversations

Editor: David Williams, Carl Lavery | Reference: P1619 | ISBN: 978-1-906499-02-0 | Type: Publication

The book contextualises, documents and analyses Lone Twin’s work. It explores their interest in live performance, journeys, places, language, narrative and image, and includes original interviews, essays, performance texts and photographs.

This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

On ‘Publics’ A feminist constellation of key words

Artist/Author: Jill Dolan | Editor: Melanie Bennet, Richard Gough, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer | Reference: A0362 | Type: Article

Traces Dolan’s key terms – ‘publics’, ‘feelings’, ‘practice’, ‘utopian performatives’ and ‘performance’ – personally and politically rather than from a strictly scholarly perspective.

The Emancipated Spectator

Artist/Author: Jacques Ranciere | Reference: P1590 | ISBN: 978-1-84467-343-8 | Type: Publication

Asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, Rancière goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture

Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Sara Brady and Fintan Walsh | Reference: P1576 | Type: Publication

Considers Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies.

The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance

Editor: Lizbeth Goodman | Reference: P0004 | ISBN: 978-0415165839 | Type: Publication

Reviews ways in which sexuality has been explored and expressed in new forms of performance art and dance, women’s contributions to theatre history, and how theatre has represented women over the centuries.

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

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