Skip to main content

Catalogue > By Keyword > surgery

11 results | Page 1 of 2

Nipples! I have no Nipples!
Artist/Author: Pam Patterson | Reference: D2270 | Type: DVD

On brest cancer and resistance.

Part of PSI 12.

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

body breast cancer Canada cancer embodiment feminism gender health human rights medicine performance art surgery universal declaration of human rights women

TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work
Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: A0586 | Type: Article

Review of the book edited by Judith Rudakoff.

critical camp feminine gender hyper-feminine multimedia performance art prosthetics sex work surgery surgical enlargements theatre transgender transsexuality

A Surgery – The Body as Art
Artist/Author: Michael Mayhew | Reference: P2046 | Type: Publication

Documentation of DIY 9: 2012 project. A Five-Day Surgery on the practicalities and functionalities of working with the body. ‘The Body as Art’ puts 6 artists & 2 theorists into the company of a Doctor – Dr Tuheen Hudan – and an experienced artist – Michael Mayhew – to talk / enquire / investigate the functionality and practicalities of working with the body within a performative context.

blood bodily functions body art DIY fluids Michael Mayhew performance surgery

Carpe Minuta Prima
Artist/Author: Brian Lobel | Reference: D1893 | Type: DVD

Five DVDs from five different members of the public participating in Brian Lobel’s Carpe Minuta Prima performance.

autobiography body clichés identity intervention labour life Mephistophelian money participation participatory post-illness post-trauma public socially engaged surgery

There is No Word for It
Artist/Author: Laura Bridgeman & Serge Nicholson | Reference: P1642 | ISBN: 978-0-9568711-0-7 | Type: Publication

Publication of the verbatim theatre show of the same title.

body childhood documentary gender Laura Bridgeman Lois Weaver manhood masculinity medicine monologue Monologues poetry Serge Nicholson sex sexuality Simon Croft surgery theatre trans transgender transition transitioning body

Orlan: A Hybrid Body of Artworks
Editor: Simon Donger, Simon Sheppherd, Orlan | Reference: P1643 | ISBN: 978-0-415-56234-8 | Type: Publication

An in-depth account of Orlan’s pioneering art. The book covers her career in performance and a range of other art forms.

body body art body modification Carnal Art Manifesto criticism digital media gender Hybrid Bodies identity manifesto medicine Open Bodies performance plastic surgery sculpture Seminal Archives surgery women

Saint Orlan: Ritual as Violent Spectacle and Cultural Criticism
Artist/Author: Orlan, Alyda Faber | Reference: A0386 | ISBN: 0-262-75805-9 | Type: Article

The French performance artist’s practice of self-directed violence creates a spectacle that violates the viewer and establishes Orlan’s body as “a site of public debate.” Her work radically exposes the violence of patriarchically established “beauty standards.”

Alyda Faber body body art body modification criticism cultural criticism ORLAN performance plastic surgery surgery The Drama Review transformation violence

various
Artist/Author: He Yunchang | Reference: D1426 | Type: DVD

Selected work images. Chinese.

body China culture medical surgery

The Wings of Live Art
Artist/Author: He Yunchang | Reference: P1353 | ISBN: 978952334249 | Type: Publication
body China culture medical surgery

Rupture
Artist/Author: Natasha Davis | Reference: D1250 | Type: DVD

A series of episodes exploring life in a spasm, liminal spaces and the body as a permanent site of trauma.

body cancer citizenship feminism fertility gender health medicine migration performance personal history surgery Syria trauma UK women Yugoslavia

Donation

£