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Empty Stages, Crowded Flats: Performativity as Curatorial Strategy
Eds. Florian Malzacher and Joanna Warsza£10.99
*Available for dispatch from the end of July 2017* During its impressive career over the last decades the term ‘performative’ has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities,...
I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
Ed. Amelia Beavis-Harrison£11.99
I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME contains essays, transcripts, art works, reflections and photographic documentation. The book is part project part catalogue. Split into three distinct sections the book...
Dansbaren—The Mob Without Flash
Eds Ingrid Cogne and Marika Hedemyr£16.00
Dansbaren — The Mob without Flash is a tool that spurs dialogue and thought, giving you long-lasting inspiration! A publication on art, bodies, politics and self organisation; it’s an essential...
Documenting Performance: The Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving
Ed. Toni Sant£21.99
Performance in the digital age has undergone a radical shift in which a once ephemeral art form can now be relived, replayed and repeated. Until now, much scholarship has been...
Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon£8.99
There are few artists who inspire such reverence as Kim Gordon. In Girl in a Band she tells with complete openness the story of her family, her work in the...
n-1 Performance life
Li-E Chen£27.00
'n-1 Performance life' documents Li-E Chen's two-year (2015-2017) experimental site-specific art project, 'n-1'. The project involved Chen's visits to 168 locations set out as squares on a Google map of...
Syxty Sorriso & Altre Storie
Flora Pitrolo and Antonio Syxty£30.00
Syxty Sorriso & Altre Storie book launch on Friday 19 May Syxty Sorriso & Altre Storie is the archive-book of the 1978-1982 works of performance artist Antonio Syxty, active in Milan in...
Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
John Cage£25.00
“As the unchallenged father figure of American experimental music, Mr. Cage wields an influence that extends far beyond sound alone. . . . Indeed, the entire American avant-garde would be...
Lexicon for an Affective Archive
Eds. Giulia Palladini and Marco Pustianaz£25.00
To study an archive or archival materials is to encounter an affective and critical practice involved in the construction of memory. Lexicon for an Affective Archive, edited by Giulia Palladini...
Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage
Ed. Daniel Sack£24.99
Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore...
The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world
David Bramwell and Jo Keeling£14.99
A CELEBRATION OF CURIOSITY AND OBSESSIONStep into a world of gloriously unpredictable characters such as Ivor Cutler, Bob Flanagan, Quentin Crisp, Joe Orton, Reginald Bray, Ken Campbell, Screaming Lord Sutch,...
Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: a conversation
Alyson Hallett and Phil Smith£10.00
In a 1934 lecture, Marcel Mauss said: “A kind of revelation came to me in hospital. I was ill in New York. I wondered where previously I had seen girls...
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile
Jane Blocker£19.99
Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s’ artworld. In Where Is Ana...
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Marina Abramovic£20.00
'Her bravest work of performance art to date . . . Rawly intimate' Observer This memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost...
Art Sex Music
Cosey Fanni Tutti£14.99
Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the...
Feelings are Facts: A Life
Yvonne Rainer£29.95
"If you’re interested in Plato, you’re reading the wrong book. If you’re interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other...
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Viv Albertine£8.99
In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen...
Pina Bausch: Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost
Marion Meyer, trans. by Penny Black£16.99
The first-ever biography in English of Pina Bausch: perhaps the most influential performer and choreographer of the 20th century. Meyer has written an accessible, readable account, with a clear journalistic...
I Love Dick
Chris Kraus£8.99
When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted...
Perform, Experience, Re-Live
Ed. Cecilia Wee£19.99
Perform, Experience, Re-Live is a limited edition book exploring how performance art is made and understood in the digital age. Taking inspiration from the BMW Tate Live Performance Events, Room...
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