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Editor: Fiona Campbell and Lauren A Wright | Reference: P3104 | ISBN: 978-0-992797423 | Type: Publication

Catalogue of the eponymous programme of events; Barbican, 20-28 January 2017. Includes archival images from the Warburg Institute and other sources that have provided inspiration to the artists during the making process, an introduction to the work by Siobhan Davies, a conversation between the Warburg Institute and Siobhan Davies Dance, and texts by artists and curators involved.

After Live: Possibility, Potentiality, and the Future of Performance

Artist/Author: Daniel Sack | Reference: P3081 | ISBN: 978-0472052868 | Type: Publication

The book conceives of traditional dramatic theater as a place for taming the future and then conceptualizes how performance beyond this paradigm might stage the unruly nature of futurity.

Theatre and History

Artist/Author: Rebecca Schneider | Reference: P3017 | ISBN: 978-0230246614 | Type: Publication

This provocative book meets the supposedly ‘live’ practices of performance and the ‘no-longer-live’ historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the ‘and’ of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot – but often oppositional – arts and acts of time.

Theatre and Mind

Artist/Author: Professor Bruce McConachie | Reference: P3008 | ISBN: 978-0230275836

All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre.

Gary Chitty, Bruce McLean and Paul Richards in conversation with Jon Wood

Artist/Author: Jon Wood | Reference: A0659 | Type: Article

Found in miscellaneous article folder #5B

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

Case of Emergency: Emergent Writings on Live Art and Performance

Editor: David Frankovich, et al. | Reference: P2774 | ISBN: 978-952-6670-55-3 | Type: Publication

*currently unavailable*

A catalogue of new writing on performance including essays and dialogues around emergency.

Joan Jonas: Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room

Artist/Author: Joan Jonas | Reference: P2376 | ISBN: 978-848977144-4 | Type: Publication

Publication on Joan Jonas’ experimental projects in the late sixties and early seventies

Show images booklets

Artist/Author: Raimund Hoghe | Reference: P1914 | Type: Publication

6 booklets of photographs from Raimund Hoghe performances. Accompanying DVDs also available ref: D1864

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