Examines the integrative and interdisciplinary strategies of five contemporary artists stressing the ways in which their work at once reflects and alters our view of its informing context: the advent of postmodernity in late twentieth-century American art and culture.

Animalworks by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.

Aye Ko, Solo show: New Media Art, 2nd-8th November 2009, Lokanat Gallery Yangon

Stephen Cripps: Pyrotechnic Sculptor, Aftershock, an essay by David Toop, biography, exhibitions and performances, drawings and working notes, machinery, process, documentation, collaborations with Paul Burwell and Anne Bean.

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

Exhibition publication.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Undertakes the impossible: pinning down this peripatetic curator, attempting to map his psychogeography so that silences may be transcribed.

Festival archive. NOTE: Text is in Korean and English (publication acquired from Korea Performance Art Festival)

CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), Patrick Ireland, Joan Fowler: irish exhibition of living art, literature, installation. See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.

Duva, Performance: Suspension, Concert for Laptop, Performance for Restricted Spaces, Deconstructing Leticia Parente, Red Blood. Installations: Black on Black, Grotesque Sublime Mix, Portraits in Motion: the Kiss, Demolition, Study for a Self-Portrait.

A collection of instruments that deploy security and surveillance technologies in unusual and playful contexts, prompting visitors to reflect on their personal sense of security and their relationship with public fears (of petty crime, terrorism, etc.). The first instrument to be built is a steel harp with strings of razor wire, which requires the harpist to wear protective gauntlets to play it.