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Birthmark Exhibition Guide

Artist/Author: Liberate Tate | Reference: P2858 | Type: Publication

Birthmark  – a live unsanctioned performance was performed in the 1840s gallery of ‘A BP Walk Through British Art’ at Tate Britain on the 28th November, 2015, the start of the Paris climate talks.

Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings

Artist/Author: Judith F. Rodenbeck | Reference: P2798 | ISBN: 978-0262526128 | Type: Publication

Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.

Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture

Editor: Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson, Tracey Warr | Reference: P2778 | ISBN: 978-1-4724-5391-4 | Type: Publication

This book explores the relationship between place and forms of thought and creative activity, relating Outlandia, an off-grid artists’ fieldstation, and the artists there, to the tradition of generative thinking and making structures that have included Goethe’s Gartenhaus in Weimar, Henry Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and Dylan Thomas’s writing shack in Laugharne.

Petro-Subjectivity: De-Industrializing Our Sense of Self

Artist/Author: Brett Bloom | Reference: P2768 | ISBN: 978-1-4951-5922-0 | Type: Publication

This book is an investigation of how the use of petroleum, in every aspect of our lives, limits our capacities to think about surviving climate breakdown, and how it shapes the things we do and inhibits our capacities to think future ways out of it. Pocket-size book.

Rambles with Nature

Artist/Author: Sheila Ghelani | Reference: P2763 | Type: Publication

This book explores the hedgerow from many different angles, through many different art-forms and with many different collaborators. Includes writing by Lucy Cash, Maddy Costa, Mary Paterson, Rajni Shah, Sue Palmer. Illustrations by Mel Sheppard. Pocket-size book in large folder.

De la mordida al camello: Roberto de la Torre (selección de obra / selected works 2000-2005)

Artist/Author: Roberto de la Torre | Reference: P2771 | ISBN: 9789709530803970-95308-0-1 | Type: Publication

Catalogue including a selection of the most representative projects developed by the Mexican artist between 2000-2005.

Landing Stages - Selections from the Ashden Directory

Editor: Wallace Heim and Eleanor Margolies | Reference: P2716 | ISBN: 978-0-992950613 | Type: Publication

A collection of writings and photographs on performance and ecology providing a comprehensive catalogue of the productions and companies developing this field.

Picture This – A Portrait of 25 Years of BP Sponsorship

Artist/Author: Kevin Smith, Jane Trowell | Reference: P2590 | ISBN: 978-0-9567365-7-4 | Type: Publication

In this publication, Platform draw together three compelling arguments for the withdrawal from BP-funding.

The Ethics of Art: Ecological Turns in the Performing Arts

Editor: Guy Cools, Pascal Gielen | Reference: P2530 | ISBN: 9789078088875 | Type: Publication

This publication explores the growing ethical consciousness within the artistic community, as it relates to art’s production and distribution mechanisms.

The Wild Places

Artist/Author: Robert Macfarlane | Reference: P2507 | ISBN: 978-1847080189 | Type: Publication

An account of visits to various remote places in order to evoke their spirit of wildness punctuated with reflections on climate change, on destruction of habitat, and on the matters of time and belonging. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

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