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Don Juan
Artist/Author: The Sydney Front | Reference: D2313 | ISBN: 978-1-922007-31-5 | Type: DVD

The audience mingle with the performers on the performance floor, which might be a kind of soirée or Don Giovanni’s ball. In the glass cabinet. 

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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Artist/Author: Maggie Nelson | Reference: P3523 | ISBN: 978-0393343144 | Type: Publication

Questions whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture, the visual to the verbal, and the apolitical to the political, Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo and permissibility.

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Live Culture / Leigh Bowery at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery
Artist/Author: Leigh Bowery (film made by Cerith Wyn Evans) | Digital Reference: EF5209 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from Bowery’s 1988 performance.

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Leigh Bowery - The Life and Times of an Icon
Artist/Author: Sue Tilley | Reference: P2868 | ISBN: 0-340-69310-X | Type: Publication

A biography and tribute to a colourful unique and larger than life character, written by his close friend.

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I Can’t Dance - DIY documentation
Artist/Author: Katherine Araniello | Digital Reference: EF5186 | Type: Digital File

Documentation from a day long workshop led by Katherine Araniello – an opportunity for artists to explore and mine areas in which they have no abilities, experience or knowledge, to enhance and inspire their artistic practice. Part of LADA's DIY 12.

The workshop took place at the Colchester Arts Centre on 15 September 2015.

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Posporno Latino
Artist/Author: Felipe Osornio / Lechedevirgen Trimegisto | Digital Reference: EF5166 | Type: Digital File

Digital documentation. Mexican performance artist Felipe Osornio aka Lechedevirgen Trimegisto screening programme of artists working in the contemporary Latin-American scene in relation to Postporno, gender and sexuality, presented on Wednesday 8 April 2015, in the LADA Study Room.

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The Bloody Sacrifice: a personal experience of contemporary blood rites
Artist/Author: Charlotte Rodgers | Reference: P2425 | ISBN: 9781906958305 | Type: Publication
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Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance
Editor: Karoline Gritzner | Reference: P2426 | ISBN: 9781902806921 | Type: Publication

Exploring a range of topics, including Greek tragedy, Shakespearean theater, contemporary British plays, opera, and the theatricality of Parisian culture, this compilation provides new perspectives on the relationship between Eros and Death in a series of dramatic texts, theatrical practices, and cultural performances

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Exposed: Beyond Burlesque
Artist/Author: Beth B | Reference: D2149 | Type: DVD

A film by Beth B exploring the diversity of the underground burlesque scene in the 21st century with performances from Rose Wood, Julie Atlas Muz, Mat Fraser, Dirty Martini, Bunny Love, Bambi the Mermaid, World Famous *Bob* & Tigger!

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Imaging Her Erotics: Carolee Schneemann: Essays, Interviews, Projects
Artist/Author: Carolee Schneemann | Reference: P0346 | ISBN: 0 262 19459 7 | Type: Publication

Monographic publication on Carolee Scheemann. Includes interviews (by L. Montano, K. Haug, Carl Heyward, Aviva Rahmani) with Schneemann; as well as excerpts from journals, diaries, notes and lectures by Schneemann. Contributions by: Kristine Stiles, Robert C. Morgan, Jay Murphy, Robert Riley, David Levi Strauss. This item is part of the Study Room Guide on Performance, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights by Adrien Sina (P0661)

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