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Histories
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Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin
Brandon Woolf£35.00
“Rigorous, vivid, heartfelt, and timely, Brandon Woolf’s Institutional Theatrics tells at least three urgent stories. Most visible is the story of modern and contemporary theater in Berlin, bursting with some of the...
Actional Poetics – ASH SHE HE: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971–2020
Eds. Sandra Johnston, Cherie Driver and Paula Blair£30.00
A retrospective monograph on the pioneering performance artist and teacher Alastair MacLennan. This is the most comprehensive study of Alastair MacLennan’s extensive performance practice, nationally and internationally renowned for its...
The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and its Afterlives
Stuart Brisley and Gilane Tawadros£17.50
This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an...
moving - writing
Toine Horvers£25.00
The book, that started four years ago as a possible form in which my ephemeral works could live on, gradually developed into an intensive writing project about movement and the...
Final Transmission: Performance Art and AIDS in Los Angeles
Eds. Brian Getnick and Tanya Rubbak£8.99
Final Transmission is a book of intergenerational dialogue between artists, scholars and activists about what it means to transfer the skills, ideas and mysteries of performance through pandemic and crises. The...
Talker #9
Giles Bailey£6.00
Talker is an interview zine about performance. This is Issue #9. It features a conversation with the artist Clifford Owens. He is based in Jersey City, New Jersey, and his work...
Performance in an Age of Precarity: 40 Reflections
Eds. Andy Field and Maddy Costa£19.99
"This magical book is a love letter to the artists whose imagination and cleverness transport us and unite us, and to the beauty and fragility of their performance. When I...
The Guillermo Gómez-Peña Collection
Guillermo Gómez-Peña£109.99 £140.96
Unbound are pleased to offer this collection of texts by the iconic artist, activist, writer, radical pedagogue and artistic director of La Pocha Nostra, Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Offered with a £30...
Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)
Guillermo Gómez-Peña£29.99
Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as...
STILL LIFE Issue 5: Restraint
Hamish MacPherson£10.00
STILL LIFE is a zine featuring interviews, texts and images from performance, kink, healthcare and other domains. It's a zine about relationships and configurations in which one person is still...
I'm Here
Franko B£8.00 £10.00
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...
Queer Communion
Eds. Amelia Jones and Andy Campbell£37.00
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...
Theatre Blogging: the emergence of critical culture
Megan Vaughan£24.99
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....
Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity
Ed. Maria Chatzichristodoulou£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...
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...
Louche #1
Ed. Georgeous Michael£12.00
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...
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£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...
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 Twenty-First Century Performance Reader
Eds. Teresa Brayshaw, Anna Fenemore, and Noel Witts£44.99
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...
Beijing Xingwei: contemporary chinese time-based art
Meiling Cheng£30.00
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...
Timely Readings: A Study on Live Art in Australia
Madeleine Hodge, Sarah Rodigari and Ellla Sutherland£10.00
Available for pre-order now! Timely Readings will ship in September and the Guide will be launched at LADA on Friday 6 September. Timely Readings: A Study on Live Art in...
Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra£31.50
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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