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Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
Artist/Author: Amber Jamilla Musser | Reference: P4027 | ISBN: 9781479830954 | Type: Publication

Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

activism aggression appetite audience Audre Lorde authenticity black black women blackness body camp consumption critical race studies desire drag ecstasy epistemology excess feminism fetish flesh gender impossibility In Love installation Judy Chicago Kara Walker knowledge production melancholy mother Nao Bustamante Neapolitan otherness Patty Chang performance pleasure politics pornotroping psychoanalysis queer theory race racism selfhood sensuality sexuality spectatorship The Dinner Party vulnerability weeping white supremacy

Civic Actions: Artists’ Practices Beyond the Museum
Editor: Blair French, Anne Loxley | Reference: P3917 | ISBN: 9781921034831 | Type: Publication

Focuses on the intersection of social and public projects, and the possibilities of art practice in public space.

Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

activism Amy Spiers Angelica Mesiti Anne Loxley Asia-Pacific audiences Australia Blair French Brook Andrew Claire Doherty community David Cross Elizabeth Ann Macgregor Europe Gill Nicol Heather Morison Héctor Zamora Hetti Perkins inequality Ivan Morison Ivan Muñiz Reed Janet Laurence Jeanne van Heeswijk Jenny Bisset Jun Yang Kara Walker Lara Thoms Michel Tuffery Nato Thompson Paul Chan Peter Johnson politics public space socially engaged South America Suzanne Lacy Sylvie Blocher Theaster Gates Tony Albert Zanny Begg

Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma
Editor: Bryoni Trezise, Caroline Wake | Reference: P3907 | ISBN: 9788763540704 | Type: Publication

Brings the fields of performance studies and trauma studies together in conversation where they inform crucial themes such as trauma, testimony, witness, and spectatorship.

Adrian Lahoud architecture audiences Australia Berni Searle Bryoni Trezise Caroline Wake Caryl Churchill Chris Hudson Christine Sloan Stoddard dancing ethics Geraldine Harris Helena Grehan identity Kara Walker Laurie Beth Clark Maria Tumarkin mediatised memory Mike Parr mobility performance Petra Kuppers politics popular performance representation Sam Spurr Seven Jewish Children Soviet Union Thailand theatre theory torture tourism trauma witness

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Artist/Author: Maggie Nelson | Reference: P3523 | ISBN: 978-0393343144 | Type: Publication

Questions whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture, the visual to the verbal, and the apolitical to the political, Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo and permissibility.

Abu Ghraib actionism Ana Mendieta Antonin Artaud Brian Evenson captivity Chris Burden Christianity ethics Francis Bacon Franz Kafka George W Bush horror Jacques Rancière Kara Walker Marina Abramović Mike Kelley Oedipal complex Paul McCarthy reality TV Sigmund Freud Simone Weil social order Susan Sontag Sylvia Plath taboo torture war

Let’s Start A Pussy Riot
Editor: Emely Neu, Jade French, Pussy Riot | Reference: P2439 | ISBN: 978-0957626201 | Type: Publication

Created in collaboration with Pussy Riot, this book links together the events leading up to and after the group’s arrest and the themes they fight for – feminism, LGBTQ rights, freedom of speech and the environment.

activism Alice Bag Anne Sherwood Pundyk Anohni Arvida Byström Baby Dee Battlekat Bianca Casady Billy Childish Bo Ningen Bobby Conn Bruce LaBruce Carolee Schneemann Caroline Coon Charlotte Andrews Richardson Cornershop Elias Koskimies Ellen Angus Emil Schult environment female feminism feminist Fox Franko B future Gaggle gender Gera H Plewis Hannah Lew Helen McCookerybook Homoground Inga Muscio Jeffery Lewis Jenny Holzer Jon Gnarr Judy Chicago Kara Walker Kembra Pfahler Kerry McCarthy Kids on TV Kim Gordon Koivo Laurie Penny Lee Ranaldo Lizzi Bougatsos Lucky Dragon Lucy O'Brien Marissa Paternoster Mary Beth Edelson Meadham Kirchhoff Molly Crabapple music Nastasia Alberti No Bra Nomi Ruiz Olivier de Sagazan Peaches Peggy Seeger performance photographs politics protest Pussy Riot queer Renee Lindel Roz Kaveney Rozhgar Mahmood Mustafa Russia Sarah Lucas Seth Bogart sex sexuality Spartacus Chetwynd Stephen Ira Sunaura Taylor Tamsyn Challenger The Knife Tocotronic trans Vaginal Davis Victoria Lomasko Vivian Goldman women Yoko Ono

The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium
Editor: Eleanor Heartney et al | Reference: P2355 | ISBN: 9783791347592 | Type: Publication

Contemporary women artists.

Andrea Zittel Cao Fei Catherine Opie Cecily Brown feminism feminist gender Ghada Amer Helainr Posner Jane and Louise Wilson Jane Wilson Janine Antoni Julie Mehretu Justine Kurland Kara Walker Katarzyna Kozyra Kate Gillmore Klara Liden Lisa Yuskavage Liza Lou Louise Wilson Mika Rottenberg Nancy Princenthal Nathalie Djurberg Pipilotti Rist Sharon Hayes Sue Scott Tania Bruguera Teresa Margolles Tracey Emin Wangechi Mutu women Yael Bartana

Clifford Owens: Anthology
Artist/Author: Clifford Owens | Reference: P2241 | ISBN: 9780984177660 | Type: Publication

Publication to coincide with exhibition, 2011, where Owens commissioned performance scores—written or graphical instructions for actions— from a multigenerational group of African-American artists.

Aisha Cousins Benjamin Patterson Charles Gaines Coco Fusco Dave McKenzie Derrick Adams Glenn Ligon Jacolby Satterwhite Jennie C. Jones Kara Walker Lorraine O'Grady Lyle Ashton Harris Malik Gaines Maren Hassinger Nsenga A. Knight performance art photographs photography race Rashawn Griffin Rico Gatson Sanford Biggers Saya Woolfalk Senga Nengudi Sherman Fleming Shinique Smith Steffani Jemison Terry Adkins text William Pope.L Xaviera Simmons

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
Artist/Author: Darby English | Reference: P1777 | ISBN: 9780262514934 | Type: Publication

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.

African American black cultural politics Darby English Fred Wilson Glenn Ligon installation institution intervention Isaac Julien Kara Walker painting performance race representation the museum William Pope.L

Federico Solmi
Artist/Author: Federico Solmi | Reference: P1553 | Type: Publication
Blanca De La Torre Federico Solmi Kara Walker King Kong Paul Chan Renato Miracco Robin Rhode Russel Lowe William Kentridge

Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women’s Practice
Artist/Author: Various | Reference: P0540 | Type: Publication

Explores the visibility of women’s art in Britain, Europe and America.

Alice Maher Christine Borland Cornelia Parker feminist art gender Gillian Wearing installation Kara Walker Lubaina Himid Martha Rosler motiroti painting performance photography Rachel Whiteread Sarah Lucas sculpture video women

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