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Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
Artist/Author: Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra | Reference: P4031 | ISBN: 9-781978-802025 | Type: Publication

What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art?  Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Body of Art
Editor: Diane Fortenberry, Rebecca Morrill | Reference: P3694 | ISBN: 978-0714869667 | Type: Publication

The first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years.

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No one should have seen this. The theatre of Via Negativa, 2002 - 2011
Editor: Bojan Jablanovec | Reference: P3618 | ISBN: 9789616572309 | Type: Publication

A chronological review of a decade of endeavours by one of the most astute Slovenian projects of contemporary performing arts. The publication with extensive visual material and excerpts from texts documents 29 performances accompanied by Dr Blaž Lukan’s essay Erasing the Audience which analyses the company’s performing strategies.

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Naked Boys Reading Anthology
Editor: R. Justin Hunt, Matthew Ryalls, Ivan Moya Denia | Reference: P3519 | Type: Publication

The first annual anthology of commissioned new work by queer authors.

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Guys
Artist/Author: Ksenija Kordic | Reference: D2265 | Type: DVD

A photographic series.

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

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The Forest and the Field
Artist/Author: Chris Goode | Reference: P3257 | ISBN: 9781849434751 | Type: Publication

A polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a ‘space’, and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it.

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BODY
Editor: Anthony Bond | Reference: P2896 | ISBN: 9780958720601 | Type: Publication

Published to coincide with the 1997 showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, of works featuring nudes by around 100 modern and contemporary artists. Includes essays, artists’ bios, bibliography.

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A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Artist/Author: Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris | Reference: P2840 | ISBN: 978-1137518200 | Type: Publication

Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.

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Other Hospitalities: Reflections on Chris Goode’s Ensemble Ponyboy Curtis
Editor: Maddy Costa | Reference: A0644 | Type: Article

Includes reactions by Good, Megan Vaughan, Costa and Simon Bowes. 

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La Ribot: Conversazione with Franko B
Artist/Author: La Ribot | Reference: A0603 | Type: Article

La Ribot in conversation with Franko B.

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