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Theatre and Cancer
Artist/Author: Brian Lobel | Reference: P4002 | ISBN: 9781352006469 | Type: Publication

Explores representations of cancer in fictional worlds and autobiographical performances while also highlighting work that reimagines and reinvigorates the genre of ‘Cancer Performance’.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Artist/Author: Molly Smith, Juno Mac | Reference: P3723 | ISBN: 978-1786633606 | Type: Publication

Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive – and can the police deliver justice?
 

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Jeremy Shaw’s DMT
Artist/Author: Jennifer Fisher | Reference: A0827 | Type: Article

On curating psychedelic experience.

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Club culture: the body in the bubble
Artist/Author: Josephine Leask | Reference: A0817 | Type: Article

The Dance cub as the 'happening'.

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Alternative London
Artist/Author: Nicholas Saunders | Reference: P3524 | ISBN: 978-0704502871 | Type: Publication

5th edition of the 1970s guide to alternative living.

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If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism
Artist/Author: Martha Rosler | Editor: Brian Wallis | Reference: P3497 | ISBN: 978-0941920186 | Type: Publication

Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.

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

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The Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York
Artist/Author: Giulia Palladini | Reference: P3458 | ISBN: 978-0810135222 | Type: Publication

Analyzes artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theater scene in 1960s New York. 

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Dark Habits
Editor: Bren O’Callaghan and Sarah Perks | Reference: P3238 | ISBN: 9780993591235 | Type: Publication

Challenging and re-positioning the traditional exhibition catalogue as an artwork and commission in its own right, the pub;ication takes its inspiration from the classic Pedro Almodóvar film on the occasion of the group exhibition, La Movida at HOME, Manchester (14 April – 17 July 2017).

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The Cockettes
Artist/Author: David Weissman and Bill Weber | Reference: D2231 | Type: DVD

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s. Includes deleted scenes, interview with directors and a booklet with Damon Wise film notes.

100 minutes

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Art and the Law: Obscene Publications
Editor: Index on Censorship and Vivarta | Reference: A0669 | Type: Article

Part of a series of law packs intended to address questions about legal limits related to free expression and the arts.

Forward by Dominic Johnson.

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