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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
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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.
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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 copies of I'm...
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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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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: Writing...
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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, with a special launch price of £8.00....
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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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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. Joshua Sofaer works across boundaries, borders...
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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 as...
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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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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 thought—including ghosts...
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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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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 by...
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The Explicit Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are: Carollee Schneemann, Annie Sprinkle, Karen...
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At last, the past has arrived! Performing Remains is Rebecca Schneider's authoritative statement on a major topic of interest to the field of theatre and performance studies. It extends and...
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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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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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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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Four essays on four Live Art Artists. Shortlist LIVE! publication provides comprehensive texts on the careers and practices of this year's ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. Cuqui Jerez,...
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Failed States is an occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: “indeterminate geographies”. Each themed issue is a trove of innovative text and...
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The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to...
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In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and...
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Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth,...
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From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past...
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Celebrate the launch of Touched Bodies on October 1 in London at the Live Art Development Agency. What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art?...
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‘Draws on a vital history of trans performance – an emerging canon that may no longer be ignored.’ – Morgan M Page, from her foreword Seven turbulent years. Five radical...
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What happens when your gender doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be...
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Tele-Encounters is an artistic and sociological research project exploring telepresence and family relationships in the context of migration. Based on interviews with Romanian migrants in Spain and left-behind families in Romania,...
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The Bodies That Remain is a collection of bodies and absences. Through biography, experimental essay, interview, fictional manifestation, and poetic extraction, The Bodies That Remain is a collection of texts...
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Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation. In the different contributions which...
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In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed...
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How can the arts sector better support artists at key stages in their practice? Pivotal Moments is a publication edited by the artist Sonya Dyer that follows SPACE’s symposium in...
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