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Polis: An Arena for the examination of a South African Town

Artist/Author: Athina Vahla, Ford Evanson, Mark Wilby, Anton Krueger | Reference: D2079 | Type: DVD

The Polis Series was an inter-disciplinary collaboration which explored questions about the performativity of knowledge. It hoped to critique and enact some of the ways in which knowledge is generated in terms of a poetics of the body in performance.

Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, C J W L Wee | Reference: P1484 | ISBN: 978-0-230-00845-8 | Type: Publication

A collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.

Kai Lossgott documentation

Artist/Author: Kai Lossgott | Reference: D1313 | Type: DVD

Experimental Films, 2003-2008.

Maid in South Africa, Chandelier, Dancing Inside Out

Artist/Author: Stephen Cohen | Reference: D1189 | Type: DVD

Collection of performances by the South African artist. VOB files (DVD Video)

Chandelier - To Bring to Light

Artist/Author: Steven Cohen | Reference: D1167 | Type: DVD

Documentation of a public space, walking performance. 13 min. 30 sec.

Do It

Artist/Author: Hans Ulrich Obrist | Reference: P0645 | ISBN: 3-86588-001-0 | Type: Publication

Instructions for making art.

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On (W)Reading Performance Writing by Rachel Lois Clapham (P1433) and the Study Room Guide On Social Engagement and Participation by FrenchMottershead (P1290)

 

Acting Together Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities

Editor: Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, Polly O. Walker | Reference: P3117 | ISBN: 978-1613320006 | Type: Publication

A series on Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. The second volume focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by “subtler” forms of structural violence and social exclusion.

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

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