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Adrian Piper: Race, Gender and Embodiment
Adrian Piper's Mythic Being performances critically engaged wtih popular representations of race, gender, sexuality and class; confronting viewers and forcing them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. An in-depth analysis of Piper's work.
Enacting Others: Politics of Identity
Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith and Nikki S Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender and class boundaries in works they have concieved and performed. Cherise Smith analyses their engagements with issues of identity through close readings of perfromances by each artist.
A Certain Level Of Denial
A collection of spoken word performances from the artist’s show of the same title.
Hairoism
Video work accompanying the homonymous durational performance in which the artist imitates the hairstyles of four famous men. The video consists of found footage of the four public figures mixed with performance material. Performers: Oreet Ashery, Andrew Mitchelson and Owen Parry.
re.act.feminism #2 - a performing archive
This publication is based upon the touring exhibition project re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive, an expanding, temporary and living performance archive that travelled through six European countries from 2011 to 2013. With essays by curators and scholars Kathrin Becker, Mathias Danbolt, Eleonora Fabião, Bettina Knaup, Laima Kreivytė, Laurence Rassel, Angelika Richter, Oxana Sarkisyan, Rebecca Schneider, Mare Tralla, Linda Valdés, Reet Varblane.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Almost Persuaded
Recording of the artist’s solo show based on a Tammy Wynette song in which she mocked the world of romanticism where women, neglected by men, play the sacrificial victim.
Domestic Sanitation
Excerpt of video documents a live performance held in the summer of 1976. Super 8 film & video, colour, sound.
A Menopausal Gentleman The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw
Collection of Shaw’s solo performance scripts
Shock Treatment
Collection of the artist's performance monologues, essays, and poems
