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Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture
Artist/Author: Amelia Abraham | Reference: P3995 | ISBN: 978-1509866168 | Type: Publication

Combining intrepid journalism with her own personal experience, Abraham question what it means to be queer in 2019. 

activism drag Europe gay gender genderless LGBTQ marriage equality media politics pride trans transgender UK USA visibility West

Exotic: A Fetish for the Foreign
Artist/Author: Judy Sund | Reference: P3912 | ISBN: 978-0714876375 | Type: Publication

Explores our obsession with the lure of distant lands and their promise of the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and grotesque.

appropriation architecture colonialism design foreign globalisation visual art West

Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide
Artist/Author: Boaventura De Sousa Santos | Reference: P3755 | ISBN: 978-161205545-9 | Type: Publication

Shows why cognitive injustice underlies all other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. 

activism cosmopolitanism culture diversity domination ecology ethnicity global South history individualism injustice knowing knowledge labour marginalisation market money politics power race religion sex sexuality solidarity West

Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960
Editor: Amy Bryzgel | Reference: P3115 | ISBN: 978-1784994228 | Type: Publication

Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Albania animal autoperforatsionsartisten Belgrade Berlin body body art border Bosnia Braco Dimitrijević Budapest Bulgaria CAPP censorship Central Europe Cold War communism consumerism Croatia Czechoslovakia Dada Dan Perjovschi disguise documenta Dunja Blazević Eastern Europe Elena Marchevska Ewa Partum experimental feminism feminist art food free speech gender Germany happening Hungary identity institutional critique Ion Grigorescu Ivana Bago Josip Broz Tito Klara Kemp-Welch Latvia Lithuania Marina Abramović marriage mass media migration Natalia LL OHO Group Petr Stembera Poland politics Raša Todosijević Restock Rethink Reflect 4 Romania RRR4 Russia Sanja Ivekovic Sarajevo Serbia Soviet Union Tamás Szentjóby Tanja Ostojic Tomislav Gotovac Venice Biennale Vlasta Delimar West Zdenka Badovinac

Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
Editor: Peter Weibel | Reference: P3137 | ISBN: 978-0262526890 | Type: Publication

Describes and documents politically inspired art — global art practices that draw attention to grievances and demand the transformation of existing conditions through actions, demonstrations, and performances in public space. Includes essays by leading thinkers, images of art objects, illustrations, documents, and other material as well as case studies by artists and activists.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

activism Ahmad Zatari Ammar Abo Bakr André Mesquita Ángela Bonadies Antonio Negri Arab Spring Arash T. Riahi Arman Bo Zheng border Bruno Latour Can Altay CAPP Christoph Wachter citizenship Dan S. Wang demonstration Dietrich Heissenbuttel Dimitris Papadopoulos Egypt Elena Marchevska Erdem Gunduz Ganzeer Graham Meikle Guido Strack Hadeer Elmahdawy Jackie Sumell Joulia Strauss Karl-Peter Sommermann Karlsruhe Korhan Gumus Marcus Michaelsen Margarita Tsomou Martha Rosler mass protest Mathias Jud migration Noam Chomsky Olaf Bertram-Nothnagel performance Peter Sloterdijk Peter Weibel politics public space Ragip Zik Restock Rethink Reflect 4 Rita Raley Robin Celikates RRR4 Sarah Augusta Lewison Sarah Maske Slavoj Žižek Sruti Bala Tahrir Square Taksim Square Tatiana Bazzichelli Tatiana Volkova Turkey Ugo Mattei Vassilis Tsianos Veronika Zangl Walter D. Mignolo West Younes Belghazi Zixue Tai ZKM ZKM Center for Art and Media

We Roma - a Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Editor: Daniel Baker and Maria Hlavajova | Reference: P3112 | ISBN: 978-9077288160 | Type: Publication

Inquires into the contemporary moment through the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering knowledge from the Roma way of life.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

activism Agnes Daróczi Albert Atkin Alex Lykidis Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung border CAPP Cécile Kovacshazy Damian James Le Bas Delaine Le Bas Elena Marchevska Ethel Brooks ethnicity Europe Huub van Baar Ian Hancock migration Mike Sell minority politics race Regina Römhild Restock Rethink Reflect 4 RRR4 Salman Rushdie Sanja Ivekovic Tímea Junghaus Tony Gatlif West Zygmunt Bauman

Fiction Reconstructed: Eastern Europe, Post-Socialism & the Retro-Avant-Garde
Artist/Author: Marina Grzinic | Reference: P3122 | ISBN: 978-3852661537 | Type: Publication

A radical theorization of a particular (Eastern European) position / repoliticization, this book offers a very detailed inquiry into specific Post-Socialist art and media strategies.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

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Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland Since 1980
Artist/Author: Amy Bryzgel | Reference: P2653 | ISBN: 978-1848859487 | Type: Publication

A book of case studies of performance art in Eastern Europe.

Balkans Baltics communism East Eastern Europe Miervaldis Polis Oleg Kulik West

Ai Weiwei and Uli Sigg: A heart to heart with two art stars
Artist/Author: Ai Weiwei and Uli Sigg | Reference: A0307 | Type: Article

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Brazil BRIC China collaboration Dada development East economics India installation interview Jim O'Neil Russia surrealist Switzerland Third World West

Building a Nation (exhibition catalogue)
Artist/Author: Durham, Jimmie | Reference: P1333 | ISBN: 0 907623 54 9 | Type: Publication
America building Davy Crockett Matt's Gallery West

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