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The Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York
Analyzes artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theater scene in 1960s New York.
Queer
Part of Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art series, a collection of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art. This is the first anthology to bring together artist’s writings and conversations about queer practice, describing and examining the ways in which they have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference.
Temporal Drag
The five works by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz featured in this publication intervene in time-related discourses and practices. Texts by Mathias Danbolt, Diedrich Diederichsen, Elizabeth Freeman, Denis Pernet, Marc Siegel, conversation with the artists by Andrea Thal.
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama, Manhattan
Performances, Manhattan 1970-1980
American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History
Discussion of American avant-garde theatre.
Glorious Catastrophe : Jack Smith, performance and visual culture
Detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989.
Jack Smith’s Rehearsals for the Destruction of Atlantis: ‘Exotic’ Ritual and Apocalyptic Tone
Engaging a series of critical models, this article examines the place of the ‘exotic’ in thinking about sexual and racial difference, as a means of thinking difficult or volatile modes of cultural practice. As such, it stages a confrontation between ‘exotic ritual’ and ‘apocalyptic tone’, to challenge conventions about scholarly practice and find new ways of examining uncomfortable spaces and modes of working.
All Over the Lot (The Black Lot, Too)
NYT article. Find article in misc. folder 1
Theatre of the Ridiculous (revised & expanded edition)
First published in 1979, revised edition in 1998.
This Is Not A Dream
Live footage of Dickie Beau performing October 27th, 2011. Filmed by the British Library, Joao Florencio, and Joe E. Jeffreys.
