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Public art: a reader
In this new English edition of the handbook over sixty curators, art historians, and artists take a critical look at the theme of the significance and potential of public art.
13 Women
Amanda Coogan collaborates with 13 performers to explores the Church Street disaster of 1913 and its parallel with contemporary Irish society.
The performance took place in the Hugh Lane Gallery over 12 hours. It was captured in this video using timelapse photography, the entire 12 hours resulting in a new 8 minute film.
Film: Paddy Cahill
Sound Design/Composition: Mike Glennon
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self- objectification, transforming themselves into art objects.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife
Tom Holert argues that with Celebration? Realife, Chaimowicz makes a strategic and important meditation on the changing role of the artist, who simultaneously becomes art director, choreographer and participant. The groundbreaking installation Celebration? Realife was originally created for ‘Three Life Situations’ at Gallery House London in 1972.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Exploding Galaxies: The Art of David Medalla
A book on the multi-disciplinary and experimental practice of artist David Medalla, who was born in the Philippines. Based in London since the 1960s, he has made an effort to remain independent of the art market and the institutional structure. Artist biography, bibliography and illustrated documentation of works included.
This item is part of the 'Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art' Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
Revolutionary Time and the Avant Garde
The first book of its kind to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of capitalist non-reproduction.
FANON Now: Jamila Johnson Small - documentation
Contribution by Jamila Johnson Small for FANON Now – on the legacy of Mirage: Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire. The event brought together David A Bailey, artists from the original Mirage project, and artists from subsequent generations, to reflect on the contemporary moment in relation to structural violence, de-colonising culture and relations, and the power of aesthetics and its explorations of complex formations of racial identities.
Tie A String Around the World
The publication accompanies the exhibition Tie A String Around the World, at The Philippine Pavilion of the Biennale Arte 2015.
Contemporary Theatre Review: Theatre, Performance and Activism - Gestures towards an Equitable World
Special Issue; Volume 25, Issue 3.
Dada in Paris
Published in France in 1965, the book reintroduced the Dada movement to a public that had largely ignored or forgotten it. More than forty years later, it remains both the unavoidable starting point and the essential reference for anyone interested in Dada or the early-twentieth century avant-garde. Translated by Sharmila Ganguly.
