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Performance in Place of War
The book looks at theatre and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities. Includes interviews with artists, short play extracts, and photographs.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Public 53: Mega-Event Cities
Leading scholars, artists, and activists examine the role of the arts in articulating the social agendas of urban mega-events like Olympic Games and World Expos.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.
El lenguaje de los pájaros
Part of “Negación y Utopía” (“Nagation and Utopia”), the first National Festival of Performance of Mexico, 6-29 November 2013, a platform showcasing work on Mexican identity and multicultural hybrids. This documentation includes recordings of the performance, exerpts, and interviews with the artist. Spanish language.
London 2012 Festival
Pictures and details of 2012 Festival performances
There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack – The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
Book exploring the complexities of racial politics and the relationship between racism and nationalism in contemporary Britain.
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.
Performing Rights Collection - London - Mapa-Corpo
Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes, in collaboration with local artists and audiences create a poetic interactive ritual that explores the post-9/11 “body politic.”
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get by Robert Pacitti (P1100).Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Changing States - Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation
Featuring the work of over 100 artists and writers, this unique anthology maps the changing landscape of contemporary art and culture over the past decade in the context of global economics and local politics.
This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)
