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Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression
Shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image.
Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.
Filippos Tsitsopoulos “Is Art Lonely?” archive
Complete archive of Tsitsopoulos' “Is Art Lonely?” project, including artist CV; video of performance at LADA; curatorial texts; drawings; Is Art Lonely? (video), video and photo documentation.
In glass cabinet.
Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in Contemporary Dance and Performance
Illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers.
Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad, or Plain Ugly?
The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces
While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experiences of theatre in memory and writing.
The Scene of Foreplay: Theater, Labor, and Leisure in 1960s New York
Analyzes artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theater scene in 1960s New York.
Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-Between
Introducing the idea of performance as a shared transformative experience, this engaging book will help you make sense of the performer/audience interaction in a landscape where boundaries are collapsing.
The Forest and the Field
A polemical thinking-through of the whole concept of theatre as a ‘space’, and a politically motivated exploration of how, and where, that theatrical space meets the real world that surrounds and suffuses it.
