Documents and examines the two year collaborative project with over 200 participants from Tower Hamlets, which culminated in the creation of Speak As You Find, an intergenerational site-specific performance created in Autumn 2015.
Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)

What are the implications of arts practice in people’s home or private rooms in residential care? What new understandings do they reveal about innovations in form, artistic labour practices and cultural organisations’ capacity? This article examines these questions through two projects.

Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)

In misc folder 7.

Phase 1 report on the project which seeks to challenge ageist attitudes that, being old, residents will not wish to enjoy up-to-date work, and provides care home residents with access to top level arts experiences, even if they are physically or mentally frail.

Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)

A practical proposal for the inclusion of children in as many realms as possible, not only as an expression of their rights, but as a way to intervene in the world and to disrupt the stark economic inequalities perpetuated by the status quo.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).

This book is not currently available.

Now regarded as a landmark film but virtually disowned by MGM when it was first produced, Browning’s film, set in a travelling circus, works as an old-fashioned morality play against avarice. Browning used a collection of handicapped actors and performers for the circus community, which initially welcomes the beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra into their group when she marries midget circus owner, Hans.

60 minutes.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).

A Study Room Guide by the artist and researcher Sibylle Peters looking at key issues and works in relation to Live Art by, for, and with, children

In miscellaneous folder 6.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).

What happens when a 12-18 month old is let loose in a soft, safe space with someone who follows and reflects their every sound, move and mood? The interaction between babies, performers and the audience of parents and carers is what makes this an utterly unpredictable event.

Includes a 10 minute edit and a video of the 45 minute performance a the 2005 Melbourne Festival.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).

Artists and scientists analyse the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).

At once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms, this novella describes a unique boarding  institution for girls – part idyllic refuge, part prison – where pupils are trained only in the physical arts of movement, dance and music, before issuing into an adult world for which they have (unwittingly) been prepared. Presented alongside two rare, complementary short fictional pieces: The Burning of Egliswyl and The Sacrificial Lamb.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).