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Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

Artist/Author: Nicholas Ridout | Reference: P2407 | ISBN: 9780472119073 | Type: Publication

Passionate Amateurs argues that theatre in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theatre is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different.

She Got Love

Artist/Author: Ana Mendieta | Reference: P2394 | ISBN: 978-88-572-1910-3 | Type: Publication

Ana Mendieta. She Got Love gathers over 130 works by this Cuban-American artist, created between 1972 and 1985 and chosen from among the most significant in the prolific production of her brief life.

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Artist/Author: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge | Editor: dir. by Marie Losier | Reference: D2062 | Type: DVD

This film chronicles the life and work of pioneering musician and performance artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, starting with Throbbing Gristle in the 1970s to the still very active cult favourite Psychic TV, and how h/er chance encounter with a dominatrix/performance artist in New York called Lady Jaye brought about a singular and enduring artistic collaboration and a brazen partnership that defied all the perceptions of love.

Performance Matters – Potentials of Performance – uneventful

Artist/Author: Annalaura Alifuoco with Fabiola Paz | Reference: D2030 | Type: DVD

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. Set in an ideal world where the labour of performance can take time and place, can be witness and witnessed, can live and let live, uneventful is a series of compositional vignettes that exist as enduring acts of love and labour ‘in the making.’

Shirt and Skin

Artist/Author: Tim Miller | Reference: P1994 | ISBN: 978155583458 | Type: Publication

A compilation of personal stories that the artist had told in his performances over the previous decade.

Communist Bigamist: Two Loves Stories

Artist/Author: Vaginal Davis and Susanne Sachsse | Reference: D1866 | Type: DVD

2 DVD documentation and soundtrack excerpts, plus postcards documenting the performance Communist Bigamist: Two Loves Stories.

Experience and Innocence

Artist/Author: John Waters | Editor: Drew Daniel | Reference: A0509 | Type: Article

Drew Daniels interviews John Waters.

The Lost Runway Kyoto

Artist/Author: Aine Phllips | Reference: D1862 | Type: DVD

Collaboration between Áine Phillips and film-maker Rachel Davies. Large scale collaborative project commemorating lost women and girls. A week long workshop process generates a collection of sculptural costumes and culminates in a runway/catwalk performance dedicated to each lost girl represented. Supported by Culture Ireland, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation, Live Art Development Agency and British Council. Part of Louder Than Bombs – Art, Acton and Activism Project.

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Artist/Author: Lauren Berlant | Reference: P1781 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-4202-1 | Type: Publication

Part of Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification.

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