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Visual Cultures as Seriousness

Artist/Author: Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff | Editor: Jorella Andrews | Reference: P3253 | ISBN: 978-3-943365-39-9 | Type: Publication

What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures?

The Best is Not Too Good for You: New Approaches to Public Collections in England

Editor: Contemporary Art Society and Whitechapel Gallery | Reference: P3239 | ISBN: 978-0-8548-8229-8 | Type: Publication

Explores the role of philanthropy in public collections across the UK.

Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism

Artist/Author: Gregory Sholette | Reference: P3217 | ISBN: 978-0745336848 | Type: Publication

In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.

Beyond Immersive Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation

Artist/Author: Adam Alston | Reference: P3101 | ISBN: 978-1137480439 | Type: Publication

Does immersive theatre model a particular kind of politics, or a particular kind of audience? What’s involved in the production and consumption of immersive theatre aesthetics? Is a productive audience always an empowered audience? And do the terms of an audience’s empowerment stand up to political scrutiny?

Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe

Editor: Marilena Zaroulia and Philip Hager | Reference: P3039 | ISBN: 978-1137379368 | Type: Publication

This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.

Embracing the Elusive or the necessity of the superfluous

Artist/Author: Frie Leysen | Reference: A0638 | Type: Article

Belgian festival director and curator Frie Leysen challenges Australian artists and arts organisations to be bold, and to challenge an increasingly ossified status quo in her closing keynote address at the 2015 Australian Theatre Forum (ATF). Miscellaneous folder #5A.

Unsustainable Acts of Love and Resistance: The Politics of Value and Cost in One-on-One Performances

Artist/Author: Deborah Pearson | Reference: A0623 | Type: Article

In this article, the author contends that politically themed one-on-one performances provide value because their budgets do not fit into a comfortable capitalist model of exchange. To be found in Miscellaneous Articles Folder #4.

Paying Artists – Securing a future for visual arts in the UK

Artist/Author: a-n The Artists Information Company | Reference: P2687 | Type: Publication

This report defines practical steps and frameworks for good practice of collaboration between visual artists, publicly-funded institutions, communities and audiences.

Performance Matters – Potentials of Performance – Minimum-being

Artist/Author: Lisa Alexander with The People Speak | Reference: D2022 | Type: DVD

British Library Sound Archive recording and documentation of Potentials of Performance events (26-27 October 2012).

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