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Animals
The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Questions whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture, the visual to the verbal, and the apolitical to the political, Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo and permissibility.
Os it My Body? - Selected Texts
Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Gordon produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts place her writing within the context of the artist-critics of her generation.
The Contemporary, The Common: Art in a Globalizing World
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Examines themes of being-in-common in today’s world and their relation to the development of art practices. As these practices are implemented, other ways of seeing, understanding, and making appear.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
The Live Art Almanac Volume 4
A collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read between January 2012 and December 2014. Selected through recommendations and an open call for submissions, Volume 4 reflects the dynamic, international contexts that Live Art and radical performance-based practices occupy.
Public Art (Now): Out of Time, Out of Place
An international survey that brings together 40 of the most influential approaches to art in public.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
The Super-8 Trilogy
Collections of films made between 1978 and 1981 including “We Imitate”; “We Break Up” (1978), “The Broken Rule” (1979), and “Out of Hand” (1981), iconic and original works of the ‘Pictures Generation’.
Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama, Manhattan
Performances, Manhattan 1970-1980
This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s
2012 exhibition catalogue with critical texts.
Glam: The Performance of Style
Published to coincide with exhibition, 2013