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Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma
Brings the fields of performance studies and trauma studies together in conversation where they inform crucial themes such as trauma, testimony, witness, and spectatorship.
Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in late-medieval France and the twenty-first century, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
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.
La verdad
A one hour reading of testimonies from the survivors of the armed conflict in Guatemala.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Perra
Guatemalan artist carvs the letters P-E-R-R-A (bitch) into her thigh, the same word carved onto the many victims of her country’s feminicide crisis.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Kwangjoo is Impeaching
The video juxtaposes the various form of mediation from one historical event – the 1980 student massacre – according to linear time line. The public memory of the incident is formed and moulded with mediated images and languages.
1hour 27min
Sick: The life and death of Bob Flanagan, supermasochist - uncut version
Documentary about the final years of Flanagan's life; his performance, sexuality and mortality.
Cable Tie
Taking Liberties
“’Taking Liberties’ deals with subconscious fears. She uses video, photography, objects and installation to convey how people are affected by life experiences. This body of work is a direct response to the artist’s personal experience of illness and references the martyred, executed, tortured body.This installation evokes the fear of the unknown, while simultaneously concealing the pain and fear of the sufferer.”
