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Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
Artist/Author: Fiona Anderson | Reference: P4086 | ISBN: 9780226603759 | Type: Publication

Draws on Wojnarowicz’s work to explore the role of abandoned landscape in this explosion of queer culture in NYC.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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The Architect-Walker 2018: A Mis-Guide
Artist/Author: Wrights & Sites | Reference: P4079 | ISBN: 978-1911193104 | Type: Publication

Anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it: a tool for playful debate, collaboration, and intervention.

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SWIM
Artist/Author: Amy Sharrock | Digital Reference: EF5326 | Type: Digital File

Taking place on 12 July 2007, ​SWIM was an open invitation, all access swim across London from Tooting Bec Lido to Hampstead Heath Ponds. 

2014, 31’ 19”

This video was part of LADA Screens, and was available online between 17 August and 31 August 2015

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Performing Identities: Performative Practices in Post-Handover Hong Kong Art & Activism
Artist/Author: wen yau | Reference: P4041 | Type: Publication

Doctoral thesis printed in limited edition of 20 copies; focuses on performative practices and the performativity of artists and their activist counterparts in the Umbrella Movement (2014).

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: ‘dealing with the city’
Artist/Author: Wrights & Sites | Reference: A0849 | Type: Article

A manifesto for the active and creative pedestrian – envisioning a walking that is neither a functional necessity (to shops, to work) nor a passive appreciation of (or complaint about) the urban environment.

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Edward Woodman: The Artist’s Eye
Editor: Gilane Tawadros, Judy Adam | Reference: P3752 | ISBN: 978-1908970411 | Type: Publication

Presents Woodman’s work from his entire career, including artists’ portraits, studios, exhibitions, installations and performances, collaborations with artists, social documentation and more recent and personal works.

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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Artist/Author: Judith Halberstam | Reference: P3719 | ISBN: 978-0814735855 | Type: Publication

Examines the significance of the transgender body and presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms – especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

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A to B in MK
Artist/Author: Hayley Newman | Reference: P3693 | ISBN: 9781916465008 | Type: Publication

Publication on the participatory mapping project developed that took place on the Redways in Milton Keynes from 17th – 29th July, 2018. 

In glass cabinet.

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Common Affairs - Collaborative Arts Projects
Editor: Andrea Simon, Krisztina Szipocs | Reference: P3616 | ISBN: 9789639537675 | Type: Publication

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 30 January – 18 March.  Presents the programmes implemented during the four-year CAPP project.

In Hungarian and English.

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Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die
Artist/Author: Amber Massie-Blomfield | Reference: P3600 | ISBN: 978-1908058454 | Type: Publication

Takes the road less travelled to discover Britain's most astonishing and unexpected theatres.

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