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Vanishing Points
Editor: Salome Wagaine | Reference: P4199 | ISBN: 978-1-9164243-8-8 | Type: Publication

Vanishing Points is a new anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and performance in the UK today. Vanishing Points is edited by Salome Wagaine, with deputy editors Ava Wong Davies and Ben Kulvichit, and designed by Chani Wisdom.

Ava Wong Davies Ben Kulvichi Ben Kulvichit Chani Wisdom cultural criticism Diverse Actions Dr Cecilia Wee Jack Tan live art Live Art UK Marjorie H Morgan Rajni Shah Salome Wagaine Season Butler Selina Thompson Zarina Muhammad

Glorious Catastrophe : Jack Smith, performance and visual culture
Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P1902 | ISBN: 978-0-7190-8299-3 | Type: Publication

Detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989.

1960s AIDS Alan Read America Atlantis avant-garde Bachelard cultural criticism death experimental experimental theatre film gay history impromptu intervention Jack Halberstam Jack Smith Jacobs kitsch Lee Edelman lesbian Nan Goldin New York ostracism performance political queer theory Roszak sexuality street intervention Vidler visual art writing

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.”

Alyda Faber body body art body modification criticism cultural criticism ORLAN performance plastic surgery surgery The Drama Review transformation violence

Performing Idea: Trashing Performance preview
Artist/Author: Oreet Ashery, Mel Brimfield, Gavin Butt, Dominic Johnson, Bird La Bird | Reference: D2104 | Type: DVD

Performance Matters: Performing Idea – Performative Writing

8th October 3.00-7.30pm

Adrian Heathfield Bird La Bird criticism cultural criticism curating Dominic Johnson Gavin Butt Hélène Cixous Matthew Goulish Mel Brimfield Oreet Ashery Peggy Phelan performative writing Toynbee Studios Trashing Performance

Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time
Editor: Adrian Heathfield | Reference: P0182 | Type: Publication

Essays and creative texts accompany the photographic and textual documentation.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433), the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529) and the Study Room Guide in Search of a Documentology by Marco Pustianaz (P1115)

Adrian Heathfield Alexander García Düttmann Ann Whitehurst Bobby Baker Brian Catling Brian Eno Chris Dorley-Brown cultural criticism Daniel Gosling Deborah Levy Emma Kay Gilane Tawadros Graeme Miller Hugo Glendinning Kira O'Reilly Lois Keidan Meloni Poole Mke Pearson Peggy Phelan Robert Pacitti Ronald Fraser-Munro Scanner Suzanne Moore things not worth keeping Third Angel Tim Etchells

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