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Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater
Editor: Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana, Jill Dolan | Reference: P3542 | ISBN: 978-0472068630 | Type: Publication

Collects scripts, interviews, and commentary to trace the riotous first decade of WOW. 

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

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Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice
Artist/Author: Nicola Shaughnessy | Reference: P3535 | ISBN: 978-1349317059 | Type: Publication

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.

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The Avant-garde: Race, Religion, War
Artist/Author: Mike Sell | Reference: P3500 | ISBN: 978-1906497996 | Type: Publication

How have avant-gardes been shaped by racism and contributed to racist power and imperialism? How have the claims made by avant-garde political and artistic groups to liberate humanity been indebted to religious intolerance? And how has the vanguard commitment to radical cultural action contributed to war, terror, and destruction? 

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Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical
Editor: Mike Sell | Reference: P3499 | ISBN: 978-0230241343 | Type: Publication

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of “vectors of the radical” shape the avant-garde.

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From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Artist/Author: Philip Auslander | Reference: P3503 | ISBN: 978-0415157870 | Type: Publication

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.

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Acting Out: Feminist Performances
Editor: Lynda Hart, Peggy Phelan | Reference: P3492 | ISBN: 978-0472064793 | Type: Publication

The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.

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

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Shy Radicals: The Anti-systemic Politics of the Introvert Militant
Artist/Author: Hamja Ahsan | Reference: P3445 | ISBN: 978-1906012571 | Type: Publication

This anti-systemic manifesto, a quiet and thoughtful polemic, is a satire that uses anti-colonial theory to build a critique of dominant culture and the rising tide of Islamophobia. 

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

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T(r)ipping points: the architect-walker and the destabilised city
Artist/Author: Stephen Hodge | Digital Reference: EF5267 | Type: Digital File

Documentation (Power Point) from the DIY 13 project exploring notions of tripping and tipping points through the lens of the architect-walker.

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Have You Photographed My Uterus?
Artist/Author: Natasha Davis | Editor: Lena Šimić & Emily Underwood-Lee | Reference: A0764 | Type: Article

A provocationinterested in exploring the meeting points between the obliteration of the possibility of physical motherhood (rupture of the body), a country disappearing in war (rupture of the land) and the reconstruction of the bio-political-history. Together these assert a new no-motherhood and post-motherland identity away from the exilic ruptures that define the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries in Europe.

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Disobedient Theatre Alternative Ways to Inspire, Animate and Play
Artist/Author: Chris Johnston | Reference: P3421 | ISBN: 978-1350014541 | Type: Publication

Divided into two parts, `In the World’ and `In the Room’, the book presents a rounded picture of the possibilities of a `disobedient’ culture and includes many games and exercises for creative practitioners.

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