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Review : All Over the Map
Performance Research Vol 6. No. 1. Spring 2001
Departures
The first of three related issues which engage with the migrations of people, performance and performance cultures, generating writing around differing geographies and histories of travel and travelling performance in a diversity of written and visual forms.
Reviews : All Over the Map
A Review of ‘A Woman Who…Essays, Interviews, Scripts’ Yvonne Rainer
by Claire MacDonald
pp. 121 – 123
Dancing in and out of Language
A consideration of ‘new dance’ in response to writings of Luce Irigaray.
Performing Image
Examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism.
Performance in Contemporary Art
Proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art.
If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism
Documents the crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces
While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experiences of theatre in memory and writing.
Performance by Artists
A collection of essays, documents, & bibiliography reagrding performance art edited by people associated with a Toronto-based arts organization.
The Contemporary, The Common: Art in a Globalizing World
*currently unavailable*
Examines themes of being-in-common in today’s world and their relation to the development of art practices. As these practices are implemented, other ways of seeing, understanding, and making appear.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Here is Information. Mobilise.
Key critical writings by artist and curator Ian White (1971-2013), ranging from reviews and catalogue essays to entries from his blog Lives of Performers.
Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance
Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.
