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The Revolution of the Romantics: Fluxus Made in USA

Artist/Author: Matthias Bleyl, et al. | Reference: P2707 | ISBN: 9783869840581 | Type: Publication

This publication examines the connection between Fluxus artists such as George Maciunas, Geoffrey Hendricks, Al Hansen and Ben Patterson, and Romantics such as Caspar David Friedrich and Ludwig Tiek.

Civil Twilight & Other Social Works: And Other Social Works

Artist/Author: Roddy Hunter | Reference: P2698 | ISBN: 978-0955392719 | Type: Publication

Documentation of projects investigating environments for societal production of civic understanding through a series of durational performances that encouraged discursive public encounters in civic squares and related urban environments.

Sigalit Landau

Artist/Author: Gabriele Horn, Ruth Ronen | Reference: P2546 | ISBN: 978-3-7757-2104-2 | Type: Publication

This volume presents Israeli installation artist Sigalit Landau’s project- “The Dining Hall” – a political take on ritualized eating as cultural metaphor, exhibited at Berlin’s KW Institute in early 2008.

Notes from a Revolution: Com/Co, The Diggers &The Haight

Artist/Author: David Hollander, Kristine McKenna | Reference: P2537 | ISBN: 978-0-9835870-3-3 | Type: Publication

This publication offers a record of the counterculture work of the The San Francisco Diggers – a troupe of anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action.

Performance Matters – Potentials of Performance – Fat Futures: “But you’ve got so much potential!”

Artist/Author: Vikki Chalklin with Dr. Francis Ray White and Stacy Bias | Reference: D2025 | Type: DVD

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012). This third themed year of the Performance Matters project features a vibrant series of commissions exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures. This project examines the ‘potentials’ of fat bodies in terms of the cultural and medical discourses that surround and speak of, for, and over them. The audience is invited to take a journey with three fat activists through a number of imagined ‘fat futures’ – both dystopian and utopian, that take the current Obesity Epidemic to its extremes.

Where Art Belongs

Artist/Author: Chris Kraus | Reference: P1916 | ISBN: 978-1-58435-098-9 | Type: Publication

Examination of the artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art.

On ‘Publics’ A feminist constellation of key words

Artist/Author: Jill Dolan | Editor: Melanie Bennet, Richard Gough, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer | Reference: A0362 | Type: Article

Traces Dolan’s key terms – ‘publics’, ‘feelings’, ‘practice’, ‘utopian performatives’ and ‘performance’ – personally and politically rather than from a strictly scholarly perspective.

Les Sentiers de L’Utopie

Artist/Author: Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan | Reference: P1587 | Type: Publication

A book-film – text with DVD. NOTE: text is in French, DVD in both English and French.

African Performance Review

Artist/Author: various | Editor: Osita Okagbue | Reference: P1527 | Type: Publication

Bi-annual journal of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) dedicated to publishing, disseminating and encouraging high quality research and information on theatres and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora.

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