Artist/Author: Eleanor Roberts | Reference: P2991 | Type: Publication

A PhD thesis offering a new account of the emergence of performance forms, including Happenings, participatory art, performance art and performances for the camera, in visual art and related contexts at the ICA.

Artist/Author: Neil Bartlett | Reference: P2987 | ISBN: 978-1783198368 | Type: Publication

Inspired by the true story of the strange life and lonely death of Mr. Ernest Boulton – one half of the infamous Victorian cross-dressing duo Fanny and Stella – this play is an intimate meditation on the fine art of keeping one’s nerve as the lights go out.

Artist/Author: Patrick Anderson | Reference: P2981 | ISBN: 978-0822348283 | Type: Publication

Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.

Artist/Author: Raimund Hoghe | Reference: P2967 | ISBN: 978-1-78319-327-1 | Type: Publication

A new translation of Hoghe’s original rehearsal diary that documented the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal’s work on Bandoneon (1980), illustrated with photos of the production by Ulli Weiss, and personal images and notes from the dancers.

Translated from the German by Penny Black.

 

Editor: E. Patrick Johnson, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera | Reference: P2964 | ISBN: 978-0822360650 | Type: Publication

The collection contains nine performance scripts by established and emerging black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists, each accompanied by an interview and critical essay conducted or written by leading scholars of black, Latina/o, and queer expressive practices.

Editor: Liz Aggiss | Reference: P2970 | Type: Publication

*currently unavailable*

A dark and ribald physical commentary on cultural mores, forays and sexual taboos. Aggiss places herself centre stage in this solo performance in a vociferously moving and disorientating display of contradictions and interpretations, on girls, ladies, women, mummys, mothers, bitches and dogs, pensioners and senior citizens.

Digital Reference: EF5216 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from a live exhibition featuring eleven leading female artists from the island of Ireland, offering unprecedented access to a huge body of live performance work by some of the most radical and exciting women artists emerging from the Irish cultural context.

Curated by Chrissie Cadman, Amanda Coogan and Helena Walsh

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Editor: Ester Martinez | Reference: P2974 | ISBN: 978-8415391241 | Type: Publication

Publication for the eponymous exhibition, Arts Santa Monica, May-June 2012.

In Catalan, Spanish and English.

Artist/Author: Tom Rubnitz | Digital Reference: EF5218 | Type: Digital File

Combining Rubnitz’s manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson impersonates the array of female types seen on TV in a typical broadcast day.

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Artist/Author: Ellie Roberts | Reference: A0668 | Type: Article

Drawing on a range of archives, this paper focusses on two performance works, One for Sorrow Two for Joy (1976) and Mind the Gap (1980).

Found in miscellaneous article folder #6

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)