Skip to main content

Catalogue > By Keyword > experimental performance

8 results | Page 1 of 1

n-1 Performance life

Artist/Author: Li-E Chen | Reference: P3209 | ISBN: 9781366057839 | Type: Publication

Documents the artist’s two-year (2015-2017) experimental site-specific art project. The project involved Chen’s visits to 168 locations set out as squares on a Google map of Greater London, and used the city as a stage and open space for the execution of Chen’s experiments.

Hamlet

Artist/Author: The Wooster Group | Reference: D2237 | Type: DVD

Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is re-imagined by mixing and repurposing Richard Burton’s 1964 Broadway production, directed by John Gielgud.

Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. With Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Koosil-ja, Alessandro Magania, Greg Mehrten, Daniel Pettrow, Casey Spooner and Kate Valk. Songs by Fischerspooner. 2 hours, 30 minutes

This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.

 

RUMSTICK ROAD

Artist/Author: The Wooster Group | Reference: D2188 | Type: DVD

The video reconstruction of the 1977 production presented in this DVD keeps faith with the theater piece by registering, in a new composite, the vivid texture of time and memory that shaped the original production. Video reconstruction by Elizabeth LeCompte and Ken Kobland. This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.

O Superman

Artist/Author: Laurie Anderson | Digital Reference: EF5112 | Type: Digital File

Music video for the 1981 song as displayed in the MOMA, New York.

Death Travels Backwards

Artist/Author: Leif Elggren | Reference: D2164 | ISBN: 978-0982743928 | Type: DVD

Delivers an important overview of the artist’s pursuit of the hidden secrets and spectral enigmas found within the everyday.

Good Luck Everybody. Lone Twin Journeys Performances Conversations

Editor: David Williams, Carl Lavery | Reference: P1619 | ISBN: 978-1-906499-02-0 | Type: Publication

The book contextualises, documents and analyses Lone Twin’s work. It explores their interest in live performance, journeys, places, language, narrative and image, and includes original interviews, essays, performance texts and photographs.

This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

Getting Under the Skin - Body and Media Theory

Artist/Author: Bernadette Wegenstein | Reference: P1063 | ISBN: 0-262-23247-2 | Type: Publication

Analyses the tension between a fragmented and holistic body concept in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture.

Contemporary Theatres in Europe

Editor: Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout | Reference: P0805 | ISBN: 0-415-32940-X | Type: Publication

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe.

Donation

£