At a time of increasing awareness through symposiums, writings and critique of ‘political art’, it is time to reclaim and re-assess the terms, unravel where our politics lie and determine how politics are expressed through art and/or art achieves political aims. How do our understandings of political art differ and what are our shared concerns?

An on-demand dvd, published by the Live Art Development Agency: Artist and theoretician Adrien Sina presents a compilation of film works and documentation taken from performances, instruction pieces and videos from 2005-2007.

To accompany P0529

Performing Rights Artistic Director Lois Weaver and Karen Finley, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Chumpon Apisuk, Monica Ross, Oreet Ashery and other participating artists perform manifestos of what it means to be alive and present in contemporary political and creative environments.

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

One performer. 3 hours. 30 Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A collection of objects related to the 30 articles from the Declaration of Human Rights. An open invitation to the audience to do as they desire.

Part of PSI 12.

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

One performer. 3 hours. 30 Articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A collection of objects related to the 30 articles from the Declaration of Human Rights. An open invitation to the audience to do as they desire.

Part of PSI 12.

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

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).

A recitation of the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The General Assembly of the United Nations; Resolution 217 A (111) 10 December 1948, as an act of memory. 

Part of PSI 12.

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

Dedicated to those who have been effected and abused by Thailand government's power, and especially the Muslim human rights lawyer Somchai Nilapaijit  who has been kidnapped by the Thai police since 2004.

From PSI 12.

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

Based on real events, the performance centres on a notebook in which Mroué has collected everything published in local papers about the disappearance of a government employee in Beirut. 

Part of PSI 12.

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