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The Night I Grooved To Disco Tex and the Sex-o-Letts in Barry Blue’s Poncho

Artist/Author: Adrian Howells | Digital Reference: EF5201 | Type: Digital File

Four monologues, interspersed with game-show antics requiring audience participation.

53 minutes. Unknown date.

The Night I Grooved To Disco Tex and the Sex-o-Letts in Barry Blue’s Poncho

Artist/Author: Adrian Howells | Reference: D2201 | Type: DVD

 This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5201.

Four monologues, interspersed with game-show antics requiring audience participation.

53 minutes. Unknown date.

Every Woman

Artist/Author: Narcissister | Digital Reference: EF5188 | Type: Digital File

Video.

While spinning her naked, masked body on a stage to Chaka Khan’s famous anthem, Narcissister redresses herself from clothing she pulls out of various bodily orifices.

4:28

Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife

Artist/Author: Tom Holert | Reference: P2853 | ISBN: 978-1846380297 | Type: Publication

Tom Holert argues that with Celebration? Realife, Chaimowicz makes a strategic and important meditation on the changing role of the artist, who simultaneously becomes art director, choreographer and participant. The groundbreaking installation Celebration? Realife was originally created for ‘Three Life Situations’ at Gallery House London in 1972.

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings

Artist/Author: Judith F. Rodenbeck | Reference: P2798 | ISBN: 978-0262526128 | Type: Publication

Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow’s project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art’s participatory strategies.

Action Plans: Selected Performance Pieces

Artist/Author: Action Hero | Reference: P2788 | ISBN: 978-1-78319-500-8 | Type: Publication

Includes the pieces: Hoke’s Bluff, Slap Talk, Watch Me Fall, A Western, Frontman and Extraordinary Rendition.

We Are All Normal (and We Want Our Freedom): A Collection of Contemporary Nordic Artists Writings

Editor: Katya Sander and Simon Sheikh | Reference: P2704 | ISBN: 978-1901033236 | Type: Publication

An anthology of artists writings from the Nordic and Baltic region gathering together writings by the artists themselves.

Performance and the Writing Life: A Conversation with Bonnie Marranca

Artist/Author: Claire MacDonald | Reference: A0585 | Type: Article

This interview explores connections within editor Bonnie Marranca’s work and considers the way in which it has developed in conversation with artists in and around New York.

The Current Situation

Artist/Author: Yara El-Sherbini | Reference: P2585 | ISBN: 978-0-9560253-5-7 | Type: Publication

Exhibition guide of a gigantic interpretation of the family buzz wire game which visitors to the gallery are invited to play with.

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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