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From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Artist/Author: Philip Auslander | Reference: P3503 | ISBN: 978-0415157870 | Type: Publication

Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.

acting actor Antonin Artaud archetype Arthur Miller audience Bertolt Brecht body capitalism choreography cultural theory culture dance Denise Collier difference experience Fredric Jameson gender identity ideology interpretation irony Jerzy Grotowski joke Kate Bornstein Konstantin Stanislavski language Meredith Monk minimalism modernism narrative ORLAN performance Peter Brook political art politics presence resistance Richard Schechner Rosanne Barr self stand-up subjectivity Susan Foster theatre Vito Acconci Willem Dafoe women Wooster Group

Nurtured by Knowledge: Learning to Do Participatory Action Research
Editor: Susan E. Smith, Dennis G. Willms, Nancy A. Johnson | Reference: P3304 | ISBN: 978-0945257813 | Type: Publication

Examines the frustrations and limitations of conventional Western academic research on social change and describes the struggle to fashion a new approach based on the principle that people have a universal right to participate in the production of knowledge that directly affects their lives.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Documenting Performance
Editor: Toni Sant | Reference: P3235 | ISBN: 978-1472588173

The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.

Adam Nash Adam Trainer Alberto Pendón Alissa Clarke Allan Taylor Alvin Eng Hui Lim Amy Skinner archive audience audience experience Australia Ben Spatz body Cat Hope Claire Read collection CumberHamlet Daisy Abbott dance Daniela Salazar data digital digital archive digital performance embodiment ephemeral epistemology Gabriella Giannachi Gema Bueno Helen Newall history intellectual property internet interpretation Jeanine Rizzo Joanna Bucknall Kirsty Sedgman Laura Griffiths Laurene Vaughan live event memory Miguel Escobar music National Theatre New Music Archive Panayiota Demitriou paradocumentation participation performer training photography Sarah Whatley social media technology translation UK Vanessa Bartlett Wayang Theatre William Shakespeare

Janez Janša: Life II [in Progress]
Artist/Author: Janez Janša | Reference: P2624 | ISBN: 978-961-6572-37-8 | Type: Publication

The book is based on an ongoing, long-term, extensive photographic project spanning over a five-year period, which follows a group of women (artists) through their pregnancies into motherhood.

Adrian Heathfield Aldo Milohnić Amelia Jones Imponderabilia interaction interpretation law Marina Abramović Mladen Dolar nudity participation performance re-enactment reconstruction Tim Etchells transition Ulay

Liveartwork Issue 5
Artist/Author: Liveartwork Editions | Reference: D0640 | Type: DVD

Contemporary live art showcase including performances from the UK, USA and Spain.

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Seeing for Others
Artist/Author: Alexander Garcia-Duttmann, Rut Blees Luxemburg and Oliver Richon | Editor: Rut Blees Luxemburg | Reference: P1897 | ISBN: 978-1-907317-62-0 | Type: Publication

The second book from London’s Royal College of Art (RCA) Photography Department. Atworks are featured alongside visual and text-based conversations and essays from experts in the field.

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Rare Medium
Artist/Author: Various | Reference: D1309 | Type: DVD

Documentation of the event “Rare Medium” (The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008) curated by Ruti Sela. Booklet in hebrew with English translation.

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Shuo Hua / Speech
Artist/Author: Clare Charnley and Shu Yang | Reference: D0313 | Type: DVD

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Performance in China by Adele Tan (P1114)

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Performing the Body/Performing The Text
Editor: Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson | Reference: P0134 | ISBN: 0-415-19060-6 | Type: Publication

Collection of texts. The project one side is set to explore art practices which perform the subject and others and on another side to examine ways in which performance offers new models for interpreting contemporary art.

Amelia Jones Coco Fusco Gavin Butt interpretation Jonathan Katz Lisa Bloom Meiling Cheng Nao Bustamante painting performance art subject

Analysis of Performance Art
Artist/Author: Anthony Howell | Reference: P0138 | Type: Publication

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

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