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The Minor Gesture
Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture.
Points of Convergence - Alternative Views on Performance
Investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners.
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Futures of Black Radicalism
Key intellectuals—inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. Robinson—recall the powerful tradition of Black radicalism while defining new directions for the activists and thinkers it inspires.
e-flux journal: What’s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It?
How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse
Reflections on how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices while they shape the world around us.
Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance
Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.
Performance Matters Archive
Boxset contains 40 DVDS documenting public events with contextualising texts. Shelved in Oversize section.
Performance Matters: Performing Idea
Audio CD of Symposium and performances for Performing Idea.Track List:
Performing Idea: Other Durations
Performance Matters; Performing Idea – Other Durations5th October3:00-7:30pmToynbee StudiosWith: Janine Antoni, Matthew Goulish, Bojana Kunst, Boyan Manchev, Fred Moten and Lara ShalsonTime in Western Cultures continues to accelerate and a slower unregulated life is seemingly nowhere to be found. Contemporary art has seen a resurgence of performances of long and short durations and a re-valuation of historical works of duration. Artists are increasingly playing with, inhabiting and transforming the time of the artwork. Speakers will address questions of how we can now think of the time of performance? What are the relations between performance, time and cultural value? How is performance reconfiguring and othering our understandings and experiences of time?
