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Tell Them I Said No
This collection of essays considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms.
The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants & inventors whose obsessions changed the world
Celebrating curiosity and adventure, the book explores the obsessions, achievements and failures of lesser-known but utterly remarkable individuals who exemplify the human spirit through their stories of invention, trickery, subversion and survival.
Art AIDS America
The first comprehensive overview and reconsideration of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States. This book foregrounds the role of HIV/AIDS in shifting the development of American art away from the cool conceptual foundations of postmodernism and toward a new, more insistently political and autobiographical voice.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum (October 2015 – January 2016)
Queer Performance and Contemporary Ireland: Dissent and Disorientation
Examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the passing of the Marriage Equality referendum in the Republic in 2015.
Yoko Ono: Half a Wind Show - a Retrospective
Named after her renowned exhibition at London's Lisson gallery in 1967, this volume features Ono's most important works. It also includes photographs of Ono surrounded by her art, her billboards, “instructions,” letters, invitations to her performances, and exhibition posters.
Published on the occasion of exhibitions at Schirn Kunstahlle Frankfurt (February-May 2013), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (June-September 2013) and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (March-September 2014)
Trans Time: Time for trans visibility in contemporary art
On three artists taking part in the Trans Time exhibition at Confluences Gallery in Paris: JJ Levine, Kama La Mackerel, and Ianna Book.
Swimming in Sewage: Political performances in the Mediterranean
This article narrates and analyses three instances of swimming in the Beirut sea as political performances.
Oceanic Geographies: The fluid dramaturgy of Caridad Svich
Looking back on the experience of directing the world premiere of Svich's play at the University of Missouri.
Towards an embodied poetics of failure
Exploration of violence and trauma in needcompany’s Marketplace 76.
Playbook
An artist book which samples his performance and art practices over 14 years, with text by Victoria Wynne-Jones, Mark Amery and Gradon Diprose.
