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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...
Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation
Eds. Roberta Mock & Mary Paterson£20.00 £25.00
Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation is the seventh title in the Intellect Live series. The book will be launched with a public event, Go By The Book, at Foyles book shop in Charing...
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. He...
(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 can we affectively listen...
Awkwoods: Daniel Oliver’s Dyspraxic Adventures in Participatory Performance
Ed. Daniel Oliver£8.00 £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,...
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...
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 Finley, Robbie McCauley, Ana Mendieta, Ann Magnuson, Sandra...
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...
Shortlist LIVE! #1
Ed. Heidi Backström£15.00
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,...
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...
Black Performance Theory
Eds. Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez£23.99
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,...
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 Australia is a new artwork...
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? In Touched...
Elastic City: Prompts for Participatory Walks
Ed. Todd Shalom£25.00
We are currently awaiting a restock on this title. All orders will be recorded and shipped later in October. The participatory walk can radically reframe one’s everyday experience. The walk...
Thinking Through Theatre and Performance
Eds. Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher and Heike Roms£24.95
Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions...
A Body in the O
Tim Miller£19.95
From London to DC to Australia to Los Angeles, Tim Miller has sold out shows in which he addresses issues of gender, immigration, homophobia, and censorship. As one of the...
TALKER #6 - Dora García
Giles Bailey£6.00
Talker is an interview zine about performance. This is Issue #6. It features a conversation with Spanish artist Dora García. For over 18 years García has worked with performance to...
Selected Performances
Sinéad O'Donnell£20.00
Sinéad O'Donnell is one of Northern Ireland's foremost performance artists, with an international profile through numerous residencies and performances both nationally and internationally. Her work explores identity, borders and barriers...
Special Offer: It's Time and The Live Art Almanac Volume 5
Eds. Bojana Jankovic and Live Art UK£20.00 £27.50
This offer is for two new publications, It's Time and The Live Almanac Volume 5, which offer myriad perspectives and collected writings on what Live Art is doing now. The offer saves £7.50...
PLAYING UP: A Live Art Game for Kids and Adults (second edition)
Sibylle Peters£8.00 £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...
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