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Uninstalling Normality: A Study Room Guide on Madness, Mad Pride & Questioning Normality (2024)
Artist/Author: Dolly Sen | Reference: P4219 | Type: Publication

A Study Room Guide by writer, filmmaker, artist, performer and activist Dolly Sen looking at madness and mental health

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Fat Activist Vernacular
Artist/Author: Charlotte Cooper | Digital Reference: EF5365 | Type: Digital File

Explores fat activist language.

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Playbook
Editor: Mark Harvey | Reference: P3204 | ISBN: 978-0-473-37174-6 | Type: Publication

An artist book which samples his performance and art practices over 14 years, with text by Victoria Wynne-Jones, Mark Amery and Gradon Diprose.

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Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing
Artist/Author: Lynne Segal | Reference: P3143 | ISBN: 978-1781681398 | Type: Publication

In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir, Looks at many of the issues facing the aged – the war of the generations and baby-boomer bashing, the politics of desire, the diminished situation of the older woman, the space on the left for the presence and resistance of the old, the problems of dealing with loss and mortality, and how to find victory in survival.

Part of the Know How: The Study Room Guide on Live Art Live Art and working with older individuals and communities. (P3140)

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Theatre and Mind
Artist/Author: Professor Bruce McConachie | Reference: P3008 | ISBN: 978-0230275836

All performance depends upon our abilities to create, perceive, remember, imagine and empathize. This book provides an introduction to the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of theatrical performing and spectating and argues that this scientific perspective challenges some of the major assumptions about what takes place in the theatre.

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Cherotic Magic Revised
Artist/Author: Frank Moore | Reference: P2790 | ISBN: 978-1515240181 | Type: Publication

Cherotic Magic is a major attempt to introduce a powerful system of magic into our modern western everyday life, thereby explosively expanding such concepts as sex and human relationships. The clear, down-to-earth text is amplified by the non-linear trance illustrations by LaBash.

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Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
Artist/Author: Patrick Duggan | Reference: P2474 | ISBN: 9780719085420 | Type: Publication

Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.

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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
Artist/Author: Laura Erikson Schroth | Reference: P2453 | ISBN: 978-0199325351 | Type: Publication

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource-a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer authors

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The Open University
Artist/Author: Marcia Farquhar | Reference: D2104 | Type: DVD

A functioning outdoor lecture theatre in a roadside refuse skip and ad hoc lecture series on the subject of what is and what is not trash.

Part of the Trashing Performance programme, 25-29th October 2011.

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101 Excuses – How Art Legitimises Itself
Artist/Author: Manuel Saiz | Reference: P1168 | ISBN: 978-84-612-9218-9 | Type: Publication

Focuses on the conceptual effort of an author to legitimise his/her work by providing evidence – ‘excuses’ – that make the artwork worthy. Includes a pocket-size reference card.

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