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Performance Ritual Document
Artist/Author: Anne Marsh | Reference: P3913 | ISBN: 978-1921394973 | Type: Publication

Explores performance art through live manifestations and reiterations in photographs, film and video.

Anne Graham archive Ash Keating Australia body body art Deborah Kelly documentation Domenico de Clario history intervention Jill Orr Julie Rrap Kevin Mortensen Marina Abramović memory Mike Parr Peter Kennedy relic remediation shamanism Stelarc technology Tom Nicholson Yves Klein

Sex, Suffrage & the Stage
Artist/Author: Leslie Hill | Reference: P3797 | ISBN: 978-1-137-50921-5 | Type: Publication

Provides a survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in 1889 through the militant suffrage movement.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

feminism gender historiography history marriage equality money politics reproductive rights sex suffrage theatre women

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
Artist/Author: Shulamith Firestone | Reference: P3798 | Type: Publication

The first book of the women’s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics.

1970s abolitionism criticism dialectical materialism feminism feminist Friedrich Engels gender grassroots history Karl Marx politics radical Sigmund Freud Simone de Beauvoir theory women

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Artist/Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson | Reference: P3793 | ISBN: 978-0816692163 | Type: Publication

Explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless.

Aboriginal Australia blackness Britain civil rights colonisation displacement economy first world history human rights imperialism indigenous migration money nation national identity politics race race theory racism settler slavery sovereignty white whiteness

Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design
Artist/Author: Paul Carter | Reference: P3904 | ISBN: 978-0824833121 | Type: Publication

We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. 

body cartography Central Australia city colonialism criticism Enlightenment history map Papunya Tula Painting Movement place-making plan public space representation urbanism

Love AIDS Riots
Artist/Author: Chris McCormack | Reference: A0848 | Type: Article

The recent surge of interest in 1980s AIDS activists, shows how art can effect real change. Looking back also reveals how narrow current definitions of healthcare are and encourages us to agitate for a more diverse future.

Part of Library of Perfmorming Rights (P3041)

ACT UP gay General Idea Gran Fury health history HIV LGBT medicine performance politics sex sexuality

Time After Time
Editor: Ros Carter | Reference: P3788 | ISBN: 978-1-912-43100-7 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue, 08 September – 03 November 2018, John Hansard Gallery.

academia archive Caroline Bergvall Charlotte Posenenske conceptual art documentation Hamad Butt history installation John Latham location Southampton Stephen Foster Victor Burgin

Daylight
Artist/Author: Amy Sharrocks, Clare Qualmann, Madeleine Hodge | Reference: P3784 | Type: Publication

Newspaper created and published through the four-day programme exploring the interconnections of art, activism, performance, politics, health and print.

archive Audrey Amiss Bloomsbury Festival Catherine Hoffmann Claire Collison Claire MacDonald collective Diana Damian Martin Elena Carter Feminist Duration Reading Group gender Grace Grace Grace history Ivor MacAskill Jade Montserrat Jenny Moore Joy Gregory Kim McMahon knowledge Meenakshi Thirukode OOMK Wellcome Collection women writing

Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices
Editor: Adesola Akinleye | Reference: P3775 | ISBN: 978-3-319-70313-8 | Type: Publication

Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, the book looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture. 

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

A'Keitha Carey African diaspora Anita Gonzalez Beverley Glean blackness body British Britishness Caribfunk Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa Christy Adair criticism decolonising diaspora ethics Ethiopia feminism gender H Patten Helen Kindred history Hopal Romans Jamaica Jane Carr Jazz Kokuma Lion King Namron politics race racism Ramsay Burt Ras Mikey Courtney representation Rosie Lehan Sandie Bourne Sandra Golding Sarahleigh Castelyn Thea Barnes Tia-Monique Uzor UK youth dance

After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life
Artist/Author: Joshua Chambers-Letson | Reference: P3772 | ISBN: 978-1-4798-3277-4 | Type: Publication

Tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

AIDS Assata Shakur Audre Lorde Civil Rights Movement colonialism communism community Danh Vō difference Eiko Félix González-Torres freedom government health heteronormativity history HIV human rights Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas LGBT marginalisation Martin Wong money Nao Bustamante Nina Simone Nona Faustine patriarchy politics race racism sexuality slavery Tseng Kwong Chi USA Vietnam War white supremacy

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