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The Art Of Disobedience
An article dissecting how arts interfere and engage with politics.
In misc folder 7.
Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters
Exploring theater works created for, by, and with refugees, this hybrid collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees themselves.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Acting Together Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
A series on Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. The first volume emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Performative monuments: The rematerialisation of public art
How did performance artists of the ’60s and ’70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the ’80s, ’90s and today? This book argues that the centrality of performance to monuments and indeed public art in general rests not on its ephemerality or anti-authoritarian rhetoric, but on its power to build interpersonal bonds both personal and social.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
A Field Guide for Female Interrogators
Combining an art project with critical commentary, Fusco addresses the role of women in the war on terror and explores how female sexuality is being used as a weapon against Islamic terrorists. Using details drawn from actual accounts of detainee treatment in US military prisons, Fusco conceives a field guide of instructional drawings that prompts questions regarding the moral dilemma of torture in general and the use of female sexuality specifically.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication
Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication.
Assemblage: An Art Series on Identity, Memory, and Displacement
Assemblage reflects interdisciplinary aesthetic practices that call attention to displacement as a disruption in the continuity of place, relationships, identity, movement, memory, and time resulting in a collage of preserved artefacts and mediated possibilities.
In misc folder 7.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Regina José Galindo documentation
Includes:
– Artist bio & CV
– Hermana, 2010, 1'50''
– Himenoplastia, 2004, 7'21''
– Juegos de poder, 2009, 11'10''
– La Verdad, 2013, 1:10'
– Lucha, 2002, 3'38''
– Perra, 2005, 5'31''
Theatre and Violence
Critically engaging with examples of stage combat, rape, terrorism, wrestling and historical re-enactments, Nevitt argues that studying violence through theatre can be part of a desire to create a more peaceful world.
PSI#12 documentation
Short and long trailer for Performing Rights, a festival of creative dialogues between artists, academics, activists, and audiences investigating relationships between human rights and performance.
