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Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity
Artist/Author: Adrian Curtin | Reference: P3108 | ISBN: 978-1349459063 | Type: Publication

Explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.

abstraction acoustic aesthetics affect audience body cinema costume Dada dadaism death embodiment emotions environment Esperanto Filippo Tommaso Marinetti futurism hearing historiography Hugo Ball imaginary internationalism Kurt Schwitters language listening Maurice Maeterlinck music noise poetry politics primitivism reproduction Richard Hülsenbeck Richard Wagner semantics symbolism telephony theatre Velimir Khlebnikov vibration voice Walter Benjamin

My Nana’s Wedding (Gown) Part One
Artist/Author: Miffy Ryan | Reference: P3028 | Type: Publication

Stills from the performance, which comprised of over 300 images and took place in 2 parts; part one is performed in a photography studio, with the photographer the only spectator.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

audience death documentation family gender grandparents inheritance intimacy marriage performance women

Patience
Artist/Author: Emily Underwood-Lee | Reference: P3032 | Type: DVD

Explores the experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant. Performace text.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

autobiography baby birth chemotherapy death gender mortality motherhood parenthood sickness women

So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Artist/Author: Patrick Anderson | Reference: P2981 | ISBN: 978-0822348283 | Type: Publication

Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

Ana Mendieta anorexia archive commodification death disappearance emaciation endurance fast fasting force-feeding gender Giorgio Agamben Guantanamo hunger strike Judith Butler liveness Marina Abramović Martin Heidegger masculinity men morbidity mortality Peggy Phelan performativity politics resistance Sigmund Freud spectacle subjectivation suffering Terri Schiavo theory violence women

Gardens Speak
Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Reference: P2938 | ISBN: 978-1-939067-20-3 | Type: Publication

Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves would have recounted it.

This book contains the narrative text of those ten oral histories in both English and spoken Arabic, as well as an an introduction by the artist, and illustrations of the audience experience in Gardens Speak.

 

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AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism
Editor: Douglas Crimp | Reference: P2909 | ISBN: 978-0262530798 | Type: Publication

A collection on the media and public perception and representations of AIDS. Includes essays, a portfolio of manifestos, articles, letters, and photographs from the publications of the PWA Coalition, an interview with three members of the AIDS discrimination unit of the New York City Commission on Human Rights and presentations for the independent video documentaries on AIDS, Testing the Limits and Bright Eyes.

Amber Hollibaugh biomedicine Carol Leigh death East Berlin epidemic gay Gregg Bordowitz HIV homophobia human rights Jan Zita Grover John Borneman Katy Taylor Leo Bersani Martha Gever Max Navarre medicine Mitchell Karp Paula A. Treichler promiscuity public health PWA Coalition Sander Gilman sexuality Simon Watney Suki Ports syphilis victimhood West Berlin

101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides
Editor: Trisha Ziff | Reference: P2891 | ISBN: 978-1597112116 | Type: Publication

Enrique Metinides's choice of the 101 key images from his life photographing crime scenes and accidents in Mexico for local newspapers and the nota roja (or red pages, for their bloody content) crime press. An accompanying exhibition, which launched at Rencontres d'Arles in July 2011, toured to venues in Europe and the Americas.

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Ana Mendieta
Editor: Gloria Moure | Reference: P2887 | ISBN: 978-8434308213 | Type: Publication

This publication sets out to make Mendieta's figure more public in order to secure her rightful place in the chronicle of contemporary art.

autobiography belonging Charles Merewether childhood consumption Cuba death Donald Kuspit feminism gender identity life Mary Sabbatino painting performance art place politic Raquelin Mendieta religion Siluetas Series trauma USA violence visual art women

Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology
Editor: Tessa Boffin and Sunil Gupta | Reference: P2876 | ISBN: 978-1854890146 | Type: Publication

This book and the exhibition launched with it represent a powerful exploration in both image and text of the impact of the AIDS crisis. Different voices reveal the profound inadequacies in our attitudes to disease.

AIDS Alex Hirst Allan deSouza death gay health HIV installation Isaac Julien Joy Gregory Mandy Merck media Mehboob Dada Nicholas Lowe Nicola Field photography politics Pratibha Parmar representation rethoric Rotimi Fani-Kayode safe sex sex Simon Watney Stuart Marshall video visual art

Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre
Editor: Maaike Bleeker | Reference: P2838 | ISBN: 978-9053565162 | Type: Publication

Anatomy Live turns the modern notions of the dissecting table on its head – using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage.

Anja Klock Bojana Kunst Brian Massumi cadaver death documentation Donna Haraway Emil Hrvatin Francis Barker Gianna Bouchard Gilles Deleuze Glen Tetley Ian Maxwell Ivana Mueller Jose van Dijck Karen Ingham Leonardo Da Vinci Marijs Boulogne medicine Michal Kobialka Michel Foucault Mike Tyler Pannill Camp Rachel Fensham Rembrandt Renaissance Sally Jane Norman Sawday science Susan Leigh Foster The Visible Human Project theory training

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