Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P3717 | ISBN: 978-1-5261-3551-3 | Type: Publication

It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art’s most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

Artist/Author: Gregg Whelan | Reference: A0845

A revision of Lone Twin’s On Everest.

Reference: D2303 | Type: Publication

Includes documentation of:
– Someting Tender
– 3 : 3: 3
– For Always

Editor: Hamish MacPherson | Reference: P3688 | Type: Publication

Third issue of the online and printed zine about relationships and configurations in which one person is still while others are not.

Editor: Victor Wang | Reference: P3678 | Type: Publication

Brings together a variety of essays, photographs and archival materials and on the history of early performance art in East Asia. The publication will include texts by  An invaluable new research tool, the publication is available free at events and online.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Editor: Diane Fortenberry, Rebecca Morrill | Reference: P3694 | ISBN: 978-0714869667 | Type: Publication

The first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years.

Editor: DASH and LADA | Digital Reference: EF5287 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from the Live Art event by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Editor: DASH and LADA | Reference: D2305 | Type: DVD

Documentation from the Live Art event by disabled artists in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, May 2012

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Artist/Author: RoseLee Goldberg | Reference: P3652 | ISBN: 978-0810921818 | Type: Publication

A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists’ manifesto-like events, the Dadaists’ cabarets, and later “happenings” and “spectacles.”

Artist/Author: Theron Schmidt | Reference: A0835 | Type: Article

This article gives examples of a number of initiatives by individual writers, artist collectives, and festivals that test forms of critical writing that are as experimental as the practices to which they relate.