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Seen from Here
Writing in the Lockdown
A collection of stories, flash fiction, poems, autofiction and conceptual writing gather during the Covid-19 lockdown. All proceeds go to support The Trussell Trust which operates a UK-wide network of foodbanks.
Ron Athey:
Queer Communion
A new collection of essays and writings on the singular performance artist, Ron Athey.
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Franko B:
I'm Here
A new digital book considering the archive
of Franko B. The book is available exclusively
through Unbound.
Vanishing Points
A new anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the
on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and
performance in the UK today.
Available as a free pdf, or donate to a discretionary fund
for artists and arts workers of colour to receive a
physical copy.
2020’s Unbound seasonal sale is Twelve Days of Unbound – 12 days of 12 guest editors with each recommending books or films or editions that they would like to give or receive as festive gifts, and all offered at 12% discount.
The guest editors of Twelve Days of Unbound are: Neil Bartlett, Amy Sharrocks, Nando Messias, Krishna Istha, River Lin, Keith Khan, Charlotte Cooper, Joon Lynn Goh, Ama Josephine Budge, Tammy Reynolds, Nwando Ebizie, and the LADA team.
Think of it as a Live Art advent calendar 🎁
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In on the future and the artist-run spaces, artists, curators from the Netherlands and abroad, and poets reflect on the role of artist-run spaces in society. The book offers models for...
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Angel Rose and Oozing Gloop present ‘SERIOUS FUN 2: SERIOUS FUN, SERIOUSLY’ the sequel to the cult-classic-so-underground-you’ve-never-heard-of-it zine, SERIOUS FUN. Serious Fun 2 is 2020’s back-door entrance to the palace of...
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Before the apocalypse, the Live Art Development Agency put out an open call: a £2k bursary for a young artist to develop their practice, and think about how the future...
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Please join Metal on Wednesday 9 December for special online book club discussing In Other Words. In Other Words is a collection of urgent reflections, created by 49 artists over 4 months in...
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In October 2019, over twenty ghosts haunted Toynbee Studios in London. They ran around the building, made a mess, and slumped over in exhaustion. They also took a lot of...
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Shortlist LIVE! is an entity built around the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, which presents the annual award nominees extensively. One part of the entity is the bilingual...
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Mishandled Archive is available for pre-order with copies shipping in mid October. "In this gem of a book, Tara Fatehi Irani expands even further her vast creative exploration of how remembered histories...
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In June 2020, a group of 23 creative practitioners came together in virtual spaces to think, talk, listen and dream, learning from each other and through the act of dialogue. These writings reflect...
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Digesting Ritual 2019 Digesting Ritual is what remains of solo exhibition, Extispicy in the Everyday at the Ivy Arts Centre, and participatory performance, Our Palace of Intestines for Stag(e) Hill at University of Surrey, in July 2018. The...
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All proceeds from the sale of this title will go to TransPride Brighton This pdf book is a celebration of trans/non-binary/gender-non-conforming Pride! It contains 70+ photos of hands and 56...
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For international shipping inquiries, please email Joseph (joseph@thisisliveart.co.uk). I'm Here is a new publication by Franko B and David Caines. Initially launched as a PDF, available exclusively through Unbound, physical...
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"While information on ecology is limitless, the intersection between ecology and feminism is largely underemphasised across environmental policies and, for what concerns us here, the arts. During our curatorial research...
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All profits from the sale of these tea towels will go to support London-based mutual aid organisations. 'Commit to mutual aid, fellowship and reciprocity' In 2017, artists Clare Qualmann, Madeleine...
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Please select the price you would like to pay from the drop down menu. 100% of the amount you pay will be donated to the Trussell Trust. Seen from Here:...
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I'm Here is a new publication by Franko B and David Caines. The book is available in PDF form - and exclusively through Unbound. A very limited edition of 22...
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Ron Athey is one of the most important, prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity, his radical performances are at odds...
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In light of the ongoing and urgent change of circumstances across the arts, culture and entertainment industries, the print run for Vanishing Points will now be distributed on a pay-what-you-can...
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In this epic history-cum-anthology, Megan Vaughan tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today's digital newsletters and social media threads....
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Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers...
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Dogs of Love is a companion book to the titular performance by ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS. In this practical guide, we ask you to celebrate queer life and love by...
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Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer...
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Talker is an interview zine about performance. This is Issue #8. It features a conversation with artist Paul Maheke. Born in France and now based in London, Paul’s work has...
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The project was undertaken in 2011 / 2012. Over the course of 16 months Benjamin Robinson took about 200 photographs of his reflection in the window of a derelict shop...
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The project was undertaken in 2011 / 2012. Over the course of 16 months Benjamin Robinson took about 200 photographs of his reflection in the window of a derelict shop...
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With a mixture of intellect, humour, and striking design, Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices....
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Fat Activist Vernacular, a new eBook explores fat activist language. Health and medicine are not the only ways of understanding fat, it is also a richly subjective and cultural experience...
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In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging...
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this moment: missives from another world is a book on the photography of Bob Raymond, who documented performance art in Boston for thirty years until his untimely death in 2012....
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Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in...
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(re)collecting (f)ears documents a series of site-specific performances by selina bonelli, which took place at fallen Sound Mirrors along the southeast coast of England in the summer of 2019. How...
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Asking urgent questions about drag today, Louche mag Issue 1: Beginnings and Becomings takes a critical and constructive approach to queer performance culture: its past, present and future. Featuring contributions...
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Resonating with the ethos of open dialogue and the experimentation of women artists' collectives in the 1970s and 1980s, Of Other Spaces constructs a dynamic, open, and collaborative arena that...
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The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal...
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Purchase both volumes of PRAXIS together and save £7! Praxis Volume One is an invitation to a conversation. A conversation about community, engagement, collaboration and co-creation. A conversation about art...
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"it’s a laugh a line spiritual guide into the perspectives of ‘Dys-practice’ (filled with puns!)… what really captivated me about ‘Awkwoods’ was that it isn’t only ND friendly regarding accessibility,...
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Through personal essays, interviews, and poetic verse, punk musician and cultural icon Lydia Lunch claws and rakes at the reader's conscience in this powerful, uninhibited feminist collection. Oscillating between provocative...
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Celebrated art critic and curator Guy Brett is a leading writer who has made a significant contribution to art criticism and curating. From the 1960s onwards he has championed influential...
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In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa. Set against a contemporary South African...
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In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art, literature, and...
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This book is for any visitor resident of the Elan Valley to enjoy a creative way of exploring the area and thinking about history, nature, and people. Let the guide...
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Talker is an interview zine about performance. This is issue #7. It features a conversation with director, choreographer and performer Jo Fong. Though her background is a dancer, performing as...
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Folk is a slippery and divisive term with some uncomfortable associations. However, for me it doesn't represent a specific vernacular or style, nor a set of rustic artefacts once gather...
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Edited by artist Victoria Sin, Dream Babes Zine 2.0 focuses on the questions that speculative fiction can ask which are especially important now. What if things were different? What if...
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The Butch Monologues is a contemporary collection of real-life stories exploring the female butch, trans masculine and gender rebel experience. The project is a collaboration between several practitioners: Laura Bridgeman...
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Nerds Rock was produced in 2006 as part of a live art residency at Camden Arts Centre. Field recordings from the walkwalkwalk route through Bethnal Green, Whitechapel and Shoreditch are...
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For walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter archive we created a series of posters for Exeter Central Station as well as more ephemeral text works that were distributed throughout the city...
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For walkwalkwalk: The Musical guest artist Tai Shani curated a spectacular live soundtrack to our route including performances by Dale Berning, The Baronessa and Mlle. Monika, The Mary Epworth Band,...
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54 intriguing ideas for different ways to take a walk - for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics. This is your invitation to some of the many different ways to wander:...
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25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics. In the summer of 2017 the editors...
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A typeface narrative revolving around an I, a pair of ravenous eyes, a mouth, and a peptic ulcer called O. In the story I is pursued by O through a...
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