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Czech Performance Art: Film and Video, 1956–1989

Editor: Pavlína Morganova, Terezie Nekvindova, Slava Sobotovicova | Reference: D2213 | Type: DVD

Rare visual records of interventions, performance pieces and happenings from the period before 1989.

3h 14min

See also: Czech Action Art – Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain (P2959).

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

Czech Action Art

Artist/Author: Pavlina Morganova | Reference: P2959 | ISBN: 978-8024623177 | Type: Publication

Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain 

Action Art, similar to performance art but not requiring an audience, emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. Until now this movement has received little critical attention, as the Iron Curtain prevented its dissemination to an international audience.

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

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

Artist/Author: Carolyn Merchant | Reference: P2509 | ISBN: 978-0062505958 | Type: Publication

This publication engaged with the critical investigation of the historic connection between the domination of nature and women. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).

Lament

Artist/Author: Richard Ashrowan | Reference: P2492 | ISBN: 978056172808 | Type: Publication

Richard Ashrowan considers the geopoetics of the Anglo/Scots borderline, travelling to several points on the border and beginning a meditation into the meanings that might be revealed within its landscape

100 Boots

Artist/Author: Eleanor Antin | Reference: P2464 | ISBN: 978-0762404575 | Type: Publication

This collection features all 51 images from performance artist Eleanor Antin's epic visual narrative. Introduction by Henry Sayre

Regina Jose Galindo - Estoy viva

Editor: Diego Sileo and Eugenio Viola | Reference: P2462 | ISBN: 9788857223186 | Type: Publication

Regina Jose Galindo dencounces violence women and, more generally, the social, political and cultural violence of contemporary society.

Falling Trees

Editor: Mika Elo, Marko Karo, Harri Laakso | Reference: P2173 | ISBN: 978-952-93-2038 | Type: Digital File

The exhibition presented in this catalogue was inspired by an unexpected incident. A tree fell on the Finnish Aalto Pavilion in 2011 and the exhibition had to be closed. What was originally an inconvenience became a source of inspiration for three curators from Finland. Falling Trees by Mika Elo, Marko Karo and Harri Laakso revisits this disruption of an art event and creates an opportunity to see art and nature differently.

7 Shorts

Artist/Author: Boldizsar Csernak-Risko | Reference: D1710 | Type: DVD

7 Shorts by Boldizsar Csernak-Risko, Dawn, Buka, A Single Glass of Water Lights up the World, Dusk, Kariatides, Somewhere Down Above the Skies, Slithering,

Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance

Artist/Author: Alan Read | Reference: P0284 | ISBN: 978-0415069410 | Type: Publication

Examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment.

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

Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art

Artist/Author: Lynne Green | Reference: P1398 | ISBN: 1871480620 | Type: Publication

On public art in the YSP.

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