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Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)
Artist/Author: Guillermo Gómez-Peña | Editor: Emma Tramposch, Balitrónica Gómez, Elaine A. Peña, William Stark | Reference: P4170 | ISBN: 9780367219253 | Type: Publication

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

activism Balitronica Gómez criticism cult Elaine A. Peña Emma Tramposch Guillermo Gómez-Peña La Pocha Nostra participation performance art Performance Pedagogy public art race social practice theory William Stark

The essence of performance art
Artist/Author: Gisela Hochuli | Reference: D2322 | Type: DVD

A discussion in 17 thematic segments. 53 minutes.

artistic practice Barbara Sturm live art Muda Mathis Norbert Klassen performance art theory

Black Market International
Reference: D2321 | Type: DVD

Recounts the group’s evolution and different approaches to collaboration throughout the years. Two DVDs include a documentary, interviews with BMI members, and performance footage.

Alastair MacLennan archive body BONE Festival Boris Nieslony collective documentation Elvira Santamaria-Torres Helge Meyer ideology international Julie Andree T Jürgen Fritz Lee Wen Myriam Laplante New Territories Norbert Klassen performance politics Roi Vaara theory

Through the Prism of the Senses
Artist/Author: Isabelle Choinière, Enrico Pitozzi, Andrea Davidson | Reference: P4126 | ISBN: 978-1789380798 | Type: Publication
audience body choreography cognition collective corporeality creative process dance Derrick De Kerckhove digital media dramaturgy imaginary kinaesthesia Merleau-Ponty multi-sensory perception performance performativity philosophy representation senses somatic sound spectator technology theatre theory virtual

The Universal Machine
Artist/Author: Fred Moten | Reference: P4115 | ISBN: 978-0822370550 | Type: Publication

The concluding volume to Moten’s landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being.

Anthony Braxton blackness capture consciousness criticism Curtis Mayfield difference displacement Emmanuel Levinas falsetto Frantz Fanon freedom fugitivity Hannah Arendt imagination Immanuel Kant improvisation language pathological phenomenology Piet Mondrian politics racism regulation selfhood social life subjectivity theory voice William Kentridge

The Undercommons: Fugitive planning & black study
Artist/Author: Stefano Harney, Fred Moten | Reference: P4112 | ISBN: 978-1570272677 | Type: Publication

Draws on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition to support, inspire and extend contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique.

capitalism essay governance Jack Halberstam management pedagogy poesis policy politics social life Stevphen Shukaitis theory

Points of Convergence - Alternative Views on Performance
Editor: Marta Dziewanska, Andre Lepecki | Reference: P4110 | ISBN: 978-8364177385 | Type: Publication

Investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners.

academia artist black blackness body Bojana Kunst Brazil Claudia Calirman contemporaneity criticism curation documentation duration Eastern Europe Fred Moten Japan KuroDalaiJee Magda Lipska Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez new media Nicholas Ridout open form theory Oskar Hansen performance art phenomenology politics Rebecca Schneider Sasha Obukhova social sphere temporality theory time Verónica Metello Zero Jigen

Countersexual Manifesto
Artist/Author: Paul B. Preciado | Reference: P4090 | ISBN: 978-0231175623 | Type: Publication

Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.

AIDS binary biology body butch clitoris contract criticism desire dildo Donna Haraway drag feminism gay gender genitalia heterocentric heteronormativity heterosexuality HIV homosexuality hysteriua iidentity intersex Jacques Derrida Judith Butler lesbian masculinity Michel Foucault norm normative orgasm politics pornography queer queer theory reproduction sex sex assigment sex toys sexual difference sexual technology sexuality theory trans

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Editor: Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, Johanna Burton | Reference: P4076 | ISBN: 9-780262-036603 | Type: Publication

Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

1970s Abram J.Lewis activism blackness Cece McDonald Che Gossett Chris E. Vargas economy Fred Moten gender Grace Dunham Heather Love history human rights identity labour law legislation liberty LisaPhillip Mel Y. Chen money Morgan M.Page performativity politics queer race racism representation Roy Perez Sara Ahmed terror theory trans Treva Ellison violence women of colour Wu Tsang

Kiss My Genders
Editor: Hayward Gallery | Reference: P4065 | ISBN: 9781853323645 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. Hayward Gallery, 12 June – 8 September 2019

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

activism Ad Minoliti Ajamu X Amrou Al-Kadhi Athi-Patra Ruga beauty biography body Catherine Opie Charlie Fox Chitra Ganesh Christina Quarles Del Lagrace Volcano drag femininity film Flo Brooks gender Hannah Quinlan history Holly Falconer Hunter Reynolds identity installation Jack Halberstam Jay Bernard Jenkin van Zyl Jes Fan Jimmy DeSana Joan Jett Blakk Juliana Huxtable Kent Monkman Luciano Castelli Lyle Ashton Harris Manuel Segade Martine Gutierrez masculinity Nat Raha Nayland Blake Nicholas Hlobo non-binary painting Paul Clinton Pauline Boudry Peter Hujar photography Pierre Molinier Planningtorock politics Renate Lorenz representation Rosie Hastings Sadie Benning sculpture Susan Stryker Tarek Lakhrissi Tark Lakhriss Tejal Shah text theory trans transfeminism Travis Alabanza Victoria Sin Vincent Honoré Zanele Muholi Zoe Leonard

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