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Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom
Artist/Author: Sarah Jane Cervenak | Reference: P3774 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-5715-5 | Type: Publication

Ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Black and Blur
Artist/Author: Fred Moten | Reference: P3757 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-7016-1 | Type: Publication

The first volume in the trilogy consent not to be a single being engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life.

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Performance Histories from East Asia 1960s–90s: An IAPA Reader
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).

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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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Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance
Artist/Author: D. Soyini Madison | Reference: P2912 | ISBN: 978-1107404380 | Type: Publication

Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights.

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Tree: Belief /Culture/Balance
Artist/Author: Ralph Lemon | Reference: P2553 | ISBN: 978-0819566997 | Type: Publication

A documentary album about the making of the second installation of the Geography Trilogy, Tree, commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre in 2000 – an elaborate travelogue, documenting dance research selected events and collaborative creative processes.

Asia dance identity modernity oral history performance performing arts race Sonic Art tradition

The Radicant
Artist/Author: Nicolas Bourriaud | Reference: P1966 | ISBN: 978-1933128429 | Type: Publication

This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964).

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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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Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good)
Artist/Author: Gob Squad | Reference: D1140 | Type: DVD

Gob Squad's Kitchen takes one of Andy Warhol's films, ‘Kitchen', as its starting point. A quest for the original, the authentic, the here and now, the real me, the real you, the hidden depths beneath the shiny surfaces of modern life.

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