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Falling through dance and life
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
On creating a short series of monologue pieces for the camera.
“Piss-Takes”, Tongue-in Cheek Humour and Contemporary Feminist Performance Art
The article explores the way in which humour is being used by contemporary women performance artists to state the obvious.
Domestic Sanitation
Excerpt of video documents a live performance held in the summer of 1976. Super 8 film & video, colour, sound.
Extracts from 8 Projects
Documentation Bank: Anne Bean
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
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
Discusses two recent performative installations by La Ribot.
