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After Kathy Acker: A biography
At once forensic and intimate, the biography traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.
Girls Make Noise or Girls Make a Difference?
An Investigation into the political efficacy of Pussy Riot’s art.
Girl in a Band
Founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv's life post-punk – taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again.
British Black Art: Debates on the Western Art History
The book suggests new narratives about canonical artworks of the British Black Art movement, such as Lubaina Himid’s Freedom and Change, Eddie Chambers’ Destruction of the National Front and Sonia Boyce’s Lay Back Keep Quiet and Think of What Made Britain So Great, interrogating their critical agency from an art-historical perspective.
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Cruising Utopia considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.
Young Soul Rebels
The music and club scenes of England in 1977 are recaptured in this tale of two young DJs at a pirate radio station.
We Can Be Heroes: London Clubland 1976-84
Charts the rise of London’s club scene from Punk in the late 1970s to the New Romantics in the 1980s.
East Village USA
Extracts from exhibition catalogue for “East Village USA” at the New Museum of Contemporary Art revisiting the sprawling, renegade art scene that flourished in the East Village during the 1980s. Text partially obscured.
