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The Ethics of Art: Ecological Turns in the Performing Arts

Editor: Guy Cools and Pascal Gielen | Reference: P2466 | ISBN: 978-9078088875 | Type: Publication

Attempts to describe how artistic imagination can produce new situations, based on the potentials of the singular ‘body’ within its environment.

Santiago Sierra: The Black Cone - Monument to Civil Disobedience

Artist/Author: Santiago Sierra | Reference: P2467 | ISBN: 978-9979769477 | Type: Publication

The Black Cone documents a 2012 performance by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra (born 1966), that resulted in a six-foot-high monolith in front of the Icelandic parliament, commemorating the third anniversary of the protests that followed the country’s economic crash.

Trans-global readings: Crossing theatrical boundaries

Editor: Caridad Svich | Reference: P2468 | ISBN: 978-0719063251 | Type: Publication

Gathers the voices of unique artists from the worlds of theatre, music and performance to discuss process and the making of interdisciplinary work. Contributors: Tim Etchells, Rinde Eckert, Richard Foreman, Peter Gabriel, David Greig, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Phelim McDermott, Peter Sellars

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.

Piccadilly Circus/Bunker Basement

Artist/Author: Paul McCarthy | Reference: P2456 | ISBN: 9783865216267 | Type: Publication

Extensive documentation of two video installation pieces by Paul McCarthy, Piccadilly Circus and Bunker Basement, with essays by Ralph Rogoff and Robert Storr

To Sam Ja / This Is I

Artist/Author: Vlasta Delimar | Reference: P2449 | ISBN: 9789537615659 | Type: Publication

Accompanies the 2014 retrospective of Vlasta Delimar’s work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties

Artist/Author: Teresa A. Carbone, Kellie Jones et al | Reference: P2444 | ISBN: 9781580933902 | Type: Publication

How 1960s African American artists and many of their sympathetic peers addressed the struggle for racial justice in powerful works of art is examined across a pivotal decade.

Riot

Artist/Author: Isaac Julien | Reference: P2445 | ISBN: 978-0870708879 | Type: Publication

An intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien , looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Contributors: Cynthia Rose, Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Jonathan Meese: Fräulein Atlantis

Artist/Author: Karlheinz Essl, Robert Fleck | Reference: P2446 | ISBN: 978-3791341101 | Type: Publication

Documents Meese’s 2008 exhibition at Essl Museum, Vienna ‘Fraulein Atlantis’. Interviews, photographs, DVD.

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