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From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Artist/Author: Philip Auslander | Reference: P3503 | ISBN: 978-0415157870 | Type: Publication

Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.

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Jarideh - documentation and artist interview
Artist/Author: Tania El Khoury | Digital Reference: EF5282 | Type: Digital File

One to One performance that takes place in a public café and explores surveillance and profiling in “the war on terror.”  The eight minute video includes an interview with the artist.

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FemLink-Art: Video-Collages of the International Collective
Editor: FemLink-Art | Reference: P3434 | ISBN: 978-2-9553761-0-2 | Type: Publication

Publicaition in honor of the 10th anniversary of FemLink-Art.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production
Editor: Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich | Reference: P3407 | ISBN: 978-1944869434 | Type: Publication

The essential reader for today's creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers who examine the historical precedent of South Africa; the current cultural boycott of Israel; freedom of speech and self-censorship; and long-distance activism. It is about consequences and causes of cultural boycott.

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Not for Rent: Conversations with Creative Activists in the U.K.
Editor: Stacy Wakefield and Grrrt | Reference: P3310 | ISBN: 978-0971297296 | Type: Publication

Interviews with squatters, eco-activists, musicians, and anarchists of all kinds in England and Scotland.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

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Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
Artist/Author: Gregory Sholette | Reference: P3217 | ISBN: 978-0745336848 | Type: Publication

In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.

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Drawing Life programme
Reference: P3182 | Type: Publication

Programme for a multi-media composition, based on the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Featuring poems and drawings by Jewish children imprisoned in Terezin, composer Jocelyn Pook draws inspiration from the children’s creative spirit.

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Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
Artist/Author: Imogen Tyler | Reference: P3156 | ISBN: 978-1848138513 | Type: Publication

Explores the processes through which specific populations are figured as ‘revolting’ as well as the practices through which these populations ‘revolt’ against their subjectification.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)

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Acting Together Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Editor: Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, Polly O. Walker | Reference: P3116 | ISBN: 978-0981559391 | Type: Publication

A series on Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. The first volume emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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Selma Selman catalogue
Editor: Jasmina Tumbas and Selma Selman | Reference: P3133 | Type: Publication

A catalogue of one of the most important contemporary Roma artists: a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre and a concise insight into the complex questions of the life of ethnic minorities. In Slovenian, Roma and English.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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