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The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard
Artist/Author: Baz Kershaw | Reference: P2761 | ISBN: 978-0415186681 | Type: Publication

Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.

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

 

America audience Britain capitalism carnival civil society community democracy England ethics Europe feminism feminist theatre Fredric Jameson freedom globalisation history human rights identity ideology Jacques Derrida Judith Malina Living Theatre Lloyd Johnston Manchester memory Michel Foucault Minotaur performance performative politics postmodern performance Richard Schechner Robert Hewison socially engaged spectacle theatre Tiananmen Square tradition universal declaration of human rights Victor Turner Vietnam Welfare State International Wooster Group working class

My Neck Of The Woods
Artist/Author: Blast Theory | Reference: D2238 | Type: DVD

A live documentary made in collaboration with a group of young people, set on the streets of Manchester. To take part you go online and choose from 3 people’s streams.

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Performance in Place of War
Artist/Author: James Thompson, Jenny Hughes and Michael Balfour | Reference: P3134 | ISBN: 978-1906497149 | Type: Publication

The book looks at theatre and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities. Includes interviews with artists, short play extracts, and photographs.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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The Pennine Way: The Legs That Made Us
Editor: Tamara Ashley and Simone Kenyon | Reference: P2973 | ISBN: 9780954907310 | Type: Publication

In the summer of 2006, the two artists travelled across the Pennine Way creating a choreographic pathway – a shared journey and celebration of walking as dance and dancer as traveller.

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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Artist/Author: Hannah Arendt | Reference: P2842 | ISBN: 978-0156701532 | Type: Publication

Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.

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Lament
Artist/Author: Richard Ashrowan | Reference: P2492 | ISBN: 978056172808 | Type: Publication

Richard Ashrowan considers the geopoetics of the Anglo/Scots borderline, travelling to several points on the border and beginning a meditation into the meanings that might be revealed within its landscape

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My Book, The east London Coelacanth, Sometimes Called, Troubled Waters, the Story of British Sea Pow
Artist/Author: Jimmie Durham | Reference: P2031 | ISBN: 09052633911870699122 | Type: Publication

In this book Durham looks at Englishness posing the question “who are you?” to the (presumed English) reader. Personal photographs mixed with conversation-like texts. Limited prin, signed by the artist.

autobiography England identity Jimmie Durham

Plays One: My Arm, An Oak Tree, ENGLAND, The Author
Artist/Author: Tim Crouch | Reference: P1791 | ISBN: 978-1-84943-109-5 | Type: Publication

Play collection.

An Oak Tree England participation performance text spectatorship The Author theatre Tim Crouch

Faceless
Artist/Author: Manu Luksch | Reference: D1802 | Type: DVD

Uses recording from these cameras to construct a strange yet plausible world.

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Mechanical Operations in Cambourne
Artist/Author: Helen Stratford, Lawrence Brady | Reference: P1662 | Type: Publication

Artist book: describes the measured environment of the newly built village of Cambourne through a series of drawings and pseudoscientific reports.

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