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Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity
Ed. Maria Chatzichristodoulou£19.35 £21.99
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...
Dogs of Love: Manifesting Queer Histories in the Body
R Aslan and Chris Gylee£15.00
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...
An Apartment on Uranus
Paul B. Preciado£11.43 £12.99
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...
Reformation
Benjamin Robinson£20.00
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...
Let’s just cut him open (and see what’s inside)
Benjamin Robinson£15.00
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...
Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation
Eds. Roberta Mock & Mary Paterson£25.00
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....
Fat Activist Vernacular
Charlotte Cooper£6.15 £6.99
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...
Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront
Fiona Anderson£26.00
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...
this moment: missives from another world : Thirty Years of Performances Photographed
Bob Raymond£40.00
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....
Fandom as Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Wrtiers
Eds. Catherine Grant, Kate Random Love£28.00
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...
(re)collecting (f)ears
Ed. selina bonelli£10.00
(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...
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?
Ed. Sophia Yadong HaoSold Out - £15.45
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...
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Eds. Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton£35.20 £40.00
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...
PRAXIS Vols. 1 & 2 - Special Offer
Eds. Chrissie Tiller, Patrick Fox, Heather Peak Morison & Emma Fry£15.99 £22.99
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...
Awkwoods: Daniel Oliver’s Dyspraxic Adventures in Participatory Performance
Ed. Daniel Oliver£8.80 £10.00
"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,...
So Real It Hurts
Lydia Lunch£13.99
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...
The Crossing of Innumerable Paths
Guy Brett£25.00
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...
Acts of Transgression
Ed. Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle£46.20 £52.50
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...
Gothic Queer Culture
Laura Westengard£21.99 £24.99
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...
Elan Calls: A Creative Companion Guide to The Valley
R.M. Sánchez-Camus£10.00
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...
21st Century Folk Art
Lucy WrightSold Out - £10.00
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...
The Explicit Body in Performance
Rebecca Schneider£31.99
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...
Performing Remains: Art and War in times of Theatrical Reenactment
Rebecca Schneider£32.99
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...
The Butch Monologues
Laura BridgemanSold Out - £8.00 £10.00
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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