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Falling through dance and life

Artist/Author: Emilyn Claid | Reference: P4189 | ISBN: 978-1-3500-7571-9 | Type: Publication

This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator and therapist Emilyn Claid draws inspiration from her personal and professional experiences to explore alternative approaches to being present in the world.

My eyes were like the stars

Artist/Author: Tim Etchells, Hugo Glendinning, Cathy Naden | Reference: A0879 | Type: Article

On creating a short series of monologue pieces for the camera.

“Piss-Takes”, Tongue-in Cheek Humour and Contemporary Feminist Performance Art

Artist/Author: Jacki Willson | Editor: Katy Deepwell | Reference: A0702 | Type: Article

The article explores the way in which humour is being used by contemporary women performance artists to state the obvious.

Domestic Sanitation

Artist/Author: Helen Chadwick | Digital Reference: EF5088 | Type: Digital File

Excerpt of video documents a live performance held in the summer of 1976. Super 8 film & video, colour, sound.

Documentation Bank: Anne Bean

Artist/Author: Anne Bean | Digital Reference: DB0109 | Type: Digital File

Part of the ‘Documentation Bank’ Collection, an extensive range of artists’ ‘Talking Heads’, documentation of key works, and a selection of Agency projects: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/collections/documentation-bank.

Jack Smith’s Rehearsals for the Destruction of Atlantis: ‘Exotic’ Ritual and Apocalyptic Tone

Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: A0311 | Type: Article

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.

Preferring to Laugh

Artist/Author: Ramsay Burt | Reference: A0466 | Type: Article

Discusses two recent performative installations by La Ribot.

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other theatrical problems

Artist/Author: Nicholas Ridout | Reference: P1275 | ISBN: 978-0-521-85208-1 | Type: Publication

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