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Gender Trouble
Artist/Author: Judith Butler | Reference: P3568 | ISBN: 978-0415389556 | Type: Publication

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, ‘essential’ notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category ‘woman’ and continues in this vein with examinations of ‘the masculine’ and ‘the feminine’.

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The Avant-garde: Race, Religion, War
Artist/Author: Mike Sell | Reference: P3500 | ISBN: 978-1906497996 | Type: Publication

How have avant-gardes been shaped by racism and contributed to racist power and imperialism? How have the claims made by avant-garde political and artistic groups to liberate humanity been indebted to religious intolerance? And how has the vanguard commitment to radical cultural action contributed to war, terror, and destruction? 

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The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard
Artist/Author: Baz Kershaw | Reference: P2761 | ISBN: 978-0415186681 | Type: Publication

Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

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In the Flow
Artist/Author: Boris Groys | Reference: P3042 | ISBN: 978-1784783501 | Type: Publication

Groys explores art in the age of the thingless medium, the internet. He claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present.

Performing Borders: A Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art.

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Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)Ethics
Artist/Author: Margrit Shildrick | Reference: P3036 | ISBN: 978-0415146173 | Type: Publication

A feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

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Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre
Editor: Maaike Bleeker | Reference: P2838 | ISBN: 978-9053565162 | Type: Publication

Anatomy Live turns the modern notions of the dissecting table on its head – using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage.

Anja Klock Bojana Kunst Brian Massumi cadaver death documentation Donna Haraway Emil Hrvatin Francis Barker Gianna Bouchard Gilles Deleuze Glen Tetley Ian Maxwell Ivana Mueller Jose van Dijck Karen Ingham Leonardo Da Vinci Marijs Boulogne medicine Michal Kobialka Michel Foucault Mike Tyler Pannill Camp Rachel Fensham Rembrandt Renaissance Sally Jane Norman Sawday science Susan Leigh Foster The Visible Human Project theory training

Sexuality - Documents of Contemporary Art
Artist/Author: Amelia Jones | Reference: P2644 | ISBN: 9780262526579 | Type: Publication

This anthology traces how and why this identification of art with sexual expression or repression arose and how the terms have shifted in tandem with artistic and theoretical debates.

Alina Szapocznikow Angela Dimitrakaki Annie Sprinkle Assume Vivid Astro Focus Barbara Smith Carolee Schneemann Catherine Opie Claudette Johnson Daniel Guérin David Wojnarowicz Del Lagrace Volcano desire Douglas Crimp Eleanor Heartney Elmgreen & Dragset Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Félix González-Torres gender George Chakravarthi Gerard Byrne Guillermo Gómez-Peña Hannah Wilke Harmony Hammond Herbert Marcuse Ingar Dragset Jacqueline Rose Joan Semmel Jonathan D. Katz Judith Butler Judy Chicago Julia Kristeva Kobena Mercer Laura Mulvey Lawrence Rinder Lorraine O'Grady Louise Bourgeois Lynda Benglis Malek Alloula Mary Kelly Michael Elmgreen Michel Foucault Miriam Schapiro Norman O. Brown obscene ORLAN Paul McCarthy Paweł Leszkowicz performativity pornography Robert Legorreta Rosalind Krauss Sarah Maple sexual drive Shirin Neshat Stephen Whittle Susan Sontag Trinh T. Minh-ha Vaginal Davis Valie Export Vito Acconci William Pope.L Wim Delvoye Yayoi Kusama Yoko Ono

The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order
Artist/Author: Kate Eichhorn | Reference: P2430 | ISBN: 9781439909515 | Type: Publication

Exploring the potential of archiving, cataloguing and preservation in establishing new sites of feminist storytelling and political activism.

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This is not Art : Activism and Other ‘Not-Art’
Artist/Author: Alana Jelinek | Reference: P2112 | ISBN: 978-1848858572 | Type: Publication

A retelling the history of art practice and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives.

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Radical Democratic Theatre
Artist/Author: Tony Fisher | Reference: A0468 | Type: Article

Interrogates the emergence of a new kind of participatory theatre.

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