Jennie Livingston’s iconic documentary reveals the community of New York’s minority drag queens, gay black and Latino men who cross dress as women and invent the dance style of “voguing,” imitating the fashion poses on the covers of the magazine Vogue.

A collection of texts supporting the centra question of this performance project: “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ballroom scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”.

This publication is an homage to “Paris Is Burning”, Jennie Livingston’s brilliant and award-winning 1991 documentary that captures the 1980s New York drag ball scene.

Two plays by Korean-American theatre practitioner and writer Young Jean Lee. “The Shipment” is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society. “Lear” is an alternative re-working of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy, focusing on the king's three daughters.

A 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by Shirley Clarke and starring Jason Holliday, a gay, African-American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer. Black and White film. This item can be found in the locked glass cabinet.

This volume offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on works by primarily African-American artists often omitted from mainstream gallery and museum historical exhibitions.

This book documents the two most recent works by the British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien.

A documentary album about the making of the second installation of the Geography Trilogy, Tree, commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre in 2000 – an elaborate travelogue, documenting dance research selected events and collaborative creative processes.

Exhibition catalogue documenting artorks by Papo Colo, Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrian Piper, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson. 

A study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude.