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Histories
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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 society...
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 consolidates her...
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 form...
Beijing Xingwei: contemporary chinese time-based art
Meiling Cheng£24.00 £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 Australia is a new artwork...
Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra£25.20 £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? In Touched...
The Bodies That Remain
Ed. Emily Beber£17.99
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 and images on...
PLAYING UP: A Live Art Game for Kids and Adults (second edition)
Sibylle Peters£10.00
Make clothes out of food, lie on top of cars, dance with animals, try bagism, make a ketchup fight, follow a random passerby through the city, remote control your parents,...
Performing Queer Latinidad
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera£28.50
Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when...
Sex, Suffrage & the Stage
Leslie Hill£22.99
Marking the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage, Leslie Hill provides a fascinating survey of the history of first wave feminism in British theatre, from the London premiere of Ibsen’s A Doll’s...
LADA at 20 Postcards
Live Art Development Agency£20.00
This special box set collection of 20 postcards has been created for LADA’s 20th Anniversary, and represents key LADA projects and initiatives, 1999-2019. Featured artists: La Pocha Nostra, Curious, The...
After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life
Joshua Chambers-Letson£23.99
A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and...
AGENCY: A Partial History of Live Art
Ed. Theron Schmidt£25.00
Notoriously difficult to define, Live Art is commonly positioned as a challenge to received artistic, social, and political categories: not theatre, not dance, not visual art, and often wilfully anti-mainstream...
Unlimited Action: The performance of extremity in the 1970s
Dominic Johnson£14.39 £17.99
Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of...
Performance in Contemporary Art
Catherine Wood£30.00
In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes that performance is not a genre of art separate from object making but rather an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain...
Where Are We Now? Positions To Here And Now
Eds. Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Christiane Kühl, Andreas R. Peternell and Wilma Renfordt£29.95
In 2017 steirische herbst, one of the oldest multidisciplinary contemporary art festivals in Europe, took place for the 50th time. Since its founding in 1968, the festival for performance art, theatre,...
Performance Now: Live Art for 21st Century
RoseLee Goldberg£32.00
This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for...
Artists in the Archive
Eds. Paul Clarke, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye, and Johanna Linsley£34.99
Artists in the Archive explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a stunning collection of critical writings and original artworks. It examines the politics and philosophy behind re-using...
Solitary Pleasures
Ed. Marquard Smith£7.50
Created to accompany the Solitary Pleasures exhibition at the Freud Museum, London in Spring 2018, this publication is a secret museum, a treasure trove of insightful and delightful drawings, sculptures, photographs, video stills, artefacts,...
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Ally [Janine Antoni]
Ed. Adrian Heathfield£35.00
When invited to create a retrospective of her sculptural works, the artist Janine Antoni preferred to ask herself what her works would look like when interpreted by other artists and...
Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960
Amy Bryzgel£18.99
This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the...
“I’m Still Coming” Coming to Power 2016 & 1993
Ed. Ellen Cantor£39.00
A dual catalogue and archival exposé that explores the pivotal exhibition, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, originally curated by the late artist, Ellen Cantor,...
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