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Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s
A selection of articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating chronicle and invaluable record of a turbulent period that gives an overview and survey of British art and its reception over the past thirty years which is wholly unprecedented in its scope.
How We Talk About The Work Is The Work Performing critical writing
This article gives examples of a number of initiatives by individual writers, artist collectives, and festivals that test forms of critical writing that are as experimental as the practices to which they relate.
Mesearch and the Performing Body
An anthology of Edward’s creative practice-led projects. Through the innovative practice of ‘mesearch’, in which the author is both theoriser and theorised, this study delivers a personal, creative narration, combining reflections and emotions in relation to self and performance.
The Artist practice of Exorcism
Archive and essay on the artistic exploration of exorcism. Includes a dissertation, CDs, DVDs, and objects.
In the glass cabinet.
Performing Archives/Archives of Performance
Contributes to the ongoing critical discussions of performance and its disappearance, of the ephemeral and its reproduction, of archives and mediatised recordings of liveness.
Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in Contemporary Dance and Performance
Illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers.
Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
(States of) Wake
(States of Wake) was a live critical writing project that took the form of dedications as moments of critical attention, unfolding as part of WAKE Festival in Folkestone. This book is a document of that process and an exploration of the gesture of dedicating performance.
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. Boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order.
Mythologies
A collection of essays exploring the myths of mass culture,
