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Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
Artist/Author: Ron Athey | Editor: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P2115 | ISBN: 978-1-78320-035-1 | Type: Publication

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey presents the first critical overview of this major artist’s work. It demonstrates how Athey foresaw and precipitated the central place afforded they body and identity politics in art and critical theory in the 1990s and beyond.

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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Editor: Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, Johanna Burton | Reference: P4076 | ISBN: 9-780262-036603 | Type: Publication

Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Louche #1: Beginnings and Becomings
Editor: Georgeous Michael | Reference: P4075 | Type: Publication

Asking urgent questions about drag today, Louche takes a critical and constructive approach to queer performance culture: its past, present and future. Featuring contributions from over thirty artists, writers and illustrators.

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Love on Me
Artist/Author: Jon John | Digital Reference: EF5347 | Type: Digital File

Draws strength from conversations with the performance artist Ron Athey and readings from Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag.

Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.

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The 2 of Us
Artist/Author: Jon John | Digital Reference: EF5346 | Type: Digital File

A romantic exploration performance about love and human relationships.

Please note that Queen Mary University of London holds the entire archive of the late artist.

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Performance y arte contemporáneo: Discursos, prácticas, problemas
Artist/Author: Juan Albarrán | Reference: P4062 | ISBN: 978-8437640341 | Type: Publication

. An introduction to performance in the territory of art: far from proposing a linear history, the volume offers a series of thematic and transversal approaches to performance.

In Spanish.

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Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen
Artist/Author: Amrou Al-Kadhi | Reference: P4058 | ISBN: 978-0008306069 | Type: Publication

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
Editor: Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle | Reference: P4054 | ISBN: 978-1-77614-279-8 | Type: Publication

15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Gothic Queer Culture
Artist/Author: Laura Westengard | Reference: P4053 | ISBN: 978-1-4962-1702-8 | Type: Publication

Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought the author argues that during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a queer culture has emerged that challenges and responds to traumatic marginalization by creating a distinctly gothic aesthetic.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Proliferations - Part I
Artist/Author: Liz Rosenfeld | Digital Reference: EF5345 | Type: Digital File

Pines towards a future vision that surpasses generally accepted structural limitations of the human condition. Part of LADA Screens.

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