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Love on Me
Artist/Author: Jon John | Digital Reference: EF5347 | Type: Digital File

Draws strength from conversations with the performance artist Ron Athey and readings from Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag.

Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.

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The 2 of Us
Artist/Author: Jon John | Digital Reference: EF5346 | Type: Digital File

A romantic exploration performance about love and human relationships.

Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.

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Queer Magic: LGBT+ Spirituality and Culture from Around theWorld
Artist/Author: Tomás Prower | Reference: P4009 | ISBN: 978-0738753188 | Type: Publication

A unique resource for LGBT+ spiritual seekers who want to experience the sustaining energy and strength of the worldwide queer community.

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Bethlehem Bandolero
Artist/Author: Larissa Sansour | Reference: D2272 | Type: DVD

A kitsch video featuring the artist as a Mexican gunslinger arriving in Bethlehem for a duel with the Israeli Wall. Wearing a big sombrero and a scarf, the artist walks the streets of Bethlehem and greets the locals before taking off for her final showdown. 

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

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Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran
Artist/Author: Shahram Khosravi | Reference: P3127 | ISBN: 978-0812248876 | Type: Publication

Attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians’ everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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A Field Guide for Female Interrogators
Artist/Author: Coco Fusco | Reference: P3120 | ISBN: 978-1583227800 | Type: Publication

Combining an art project with critical commentary, Fusco addresses the role of women in the war on terror and explores how female sexuality is being used as a weapon against Islamic terrorists. Using details drawn from actual accounts of detainee treatment in US military prisons, Fusco conceives a field guide of instructional drawings that prompts questions regarding the moral dilemma of torture in general and the use of female sexuality specifically.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art
Artist/Author: David A Bailey | Reference: P2609 | ISBN: 978-0262523486 | Type: Publication

Publication that accompanies an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, explores the representation of the veil in contemporary visual arts.

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The Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III
Editor: John C. Welchman | Reference: P1951 | ISBN: 978-3905770551 | Type: Publication

Images and dialogues exploring contemporary art’s engagements with risk.

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And Europe will be Stunned
Artist/Author: Yael Bartana | Reference: P1898 | ISBN: 978-1-902201-26-9 | Type: Publication

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The People Are Demanding
Artist/Author: Rabih Mroué | Reference: P1708 | Type: Publication

Highlights from the artist’s first UK solo exhibition at Rivington Place.

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