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Monica Mayer: When in Doubt ... Ask - A Retrocollective Exhibit
This is the first book on Mexican artist’s broad range of production, bringing together two- and three-dimensional works, records of actions, sound and film recordings and archival materials, enabling a reading of Mayer’s place in the construction of feminist practice in Mexico. In Spanish and English.
Queer
This is the first anthology to bring together artist’s writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining the ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference.
The English Channel
This story of a career forged in the heady waters of performance art and dance-film depicts Aggiss resuscitating herself back into the on-stage limelight. In the process, she becomes an unwitting channel for wilful women and forgotten archives; a conduit for hidden histories and buried truths.
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Testo Junkie : Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic
Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado’s diaristic account of his own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on his body as well as his imagination.
Rock Action
An extract of an action performed in Peru as part of CAUTION in July 2011.
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Sudden as a Massacre
A site-specific installation, video, and performance-based project for TBA:11. In a private performance for the camera, a quintet of women tear apart an enormous cube comprising more than5,050 pounds of wet clay. As the block disappears, the space becomes covered in the evidence of action.
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The Pursuit of the Personal in British Video Art
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)
Live Culture / Leigh Bowery at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery
Documentation from Bowery’s 1988 performance.
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Walking Failure
Nando Messias engages with representations of effeminate men and the queer body.
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Decolonial Actions video documentation
Documentation from the LADA event on (post)modern colonialism, held on on 13 Feb 2016.
Part of the Study Room Ambassador scheme.
