Also see P1517 and P1518.

This Is Performance Art: Performed Sculpture and Dance 8th April 2010 – 06 June 2010 Camden Arts Centre

This Is Performance Art: Performed Sculpture and Dance8th April 2010 – 06 June 2010Camden Arts Centre, co-commissioned by the Yorkshire Sculpture ParkAlso see D1485 and P1517Mel Brimfield’s residency, This is Performance Art, will be a historical reappraisal of performance art of the 20th Century. Through a series of discussions, documentary research, re-enactments and live performance she will undertake an examination of what can be said to constitute the ontology of ‘live art’ within current discourse. This research will form the basis for a documentary film, the first in a series, charting the new narrative through the fragmented and often unreliable documentary record of this elusive art form. The final film will be screened in the Artists’ Studio at Camden Arts Centre at the culmination of the residency along side a series of live performances and re-enactments. Mel Brimfield’s complex practice takes a skewed and tangled romp through the already vexed historiography of performance art, simultaneously revealing and inventing a rich history of collaboration between artists, dancers, theatre makers, political activists and comedians. Meticulously drawn and painted posters and programmes for fictional interdisciplinary cabarets, together with costumes and props, are produced alongside documentary-style films and live works that playfully associate performance art with most significant cultural developments of the last 100 years.

Collection of texts concerning a diversity of issues relating to feminism and visual cultures, arranged thematically and introduced by the editor. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

Take the chance to sing and dance to a pop-song while being filmed in a fantasy world. Within 24 hours your very own video will be posted on Youtube for the world to enjoy. This satirical piece exposes our longing to be, at least once in our lives, a star. The acronym says it all: “P.O.P. – The Politics of the Popular”.

Photographs. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)

Contains extracts from My Husband is a Spaceman, Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers and work by the  cult-alternative pop performance group Frank Chickens.