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A new anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the
on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and
performance in the UK today.
Available as a free pdf, or donate to a discretionary fund
for artists and arts workers of colour to receive a
physical copy.
Seen from Here
Writing in the Lockdown
A collection of stories, flash fiction, poems, autofiction and conceptual writing gather during the Covid-19 lockdown. All proceeds go to support The Trussell Trust which operates a UK-wide network of foodbanks.
Ron Athey:
Queer Communion
A new collection of essays and writings on the singular performance artist, Ron Athey.
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Franko B:
I'm Here
A new digital book considering the archive
of Franko B. The book is available exclusively
through Unbound.
We are tentatively taking steps to reopen Unbound, following our full closure due to Covid-19. Dispatch of orders will be delayed but we've worked to make several titles available as PDFs - so why wait? Check out these downloads now!
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All orders of DIY TOO will receive a PDF download of the book upon purchase, and we will ship physical copies at the earliest opportunity when Unbound reopens. DIY Too is a new book about...
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All orders of DIY will receive a PDF download of the book upon purchase, and we will ship physical copies at the earliest opportunity when Unbound reopens. This book is written by over 30...
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All orders of Awkwoods will receive a PDF download of the book upon purchase, and we will ship physical copies at the earliest opportunity when Unbound reopens. "it’s a laugh a line spiritual...
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All orders of PLAYING UP will receive a PDF download of the game upon purchase, and we will ship physical copies at the earliest opportunity when Unbound reopens. Make clothes out...
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I'm Here is a new publication by Franko B and David Caines. The book is available only in PDF form - and exclusively through Unbound, with a special launch price of...
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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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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 as...
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Please select the price you would like to pay from the drop down menu. 100% of the amount you pay will be donated to the Trussell Trust. Seen from Here: Writing...
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Splat! is a story about The Famous – a recklessly imperious, adorably detestable, pop-performance-star. Splat! is a story about Little Bitch, a sheltered young girl who cares for her father...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, LADA invited the artist Kelly Green to undertake a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, LADA invited the artist Kelly Green to undertake a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, LADA invited artist Elena Marchevska to undertake a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to the...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, LADA invited artist Elena Marchevska to undertake a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to the...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, Dr Sibylle Peters of Theatre of Research (Germany) undertook a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, Dr Sibylle Peters of Theatre of Research (Germany) undertook a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation...
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The Outsiders Handbook is available as a free PDF to download.Artist and weirdo Scottee is celebrating 10 years of making a mess, causing a fuss and getting ideas above his...
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In light of the ongoing and urgent change of circumstances across the arts, culture and entertainment industries, the print run for Vanishing Points will now be distributed on a pay-what-you-can...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, LADA invited artist and activist Lois Weaver to undertake a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to working...
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As part of Restock, Reflect, Rethink Four, on Live Art and Privilege, LADA invited artist and activist Lois Weaver to undertake a residency exploring Live Art practices and methodologies in relation to working...
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The Free University of Liverpool (FUL) is a protest and was founded in November 2010 during the hiatus of the student and public sector worker marches against the ConDem government...
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Please select the price you would like to pay from the drop down menu. 100% of the amount you pay will be donated to the Trussell Trust. Seen from Here: Writing...
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I'm Here is a new publication by Franko B and David Caines. The book is available only in PDF form - and exclusively through Unbound, with a special launch price of...
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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...
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In light of the ongoing and urgent change of circumstances across the arts, culture and entertainment industries, the print run for Vanishing Points will now be distributed on a pay-what-you-can...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Talker is an interview zine about performance. This is Issue #8. It features a conversation with artist Paul Maheke. Born in France and now based in London, Paul’s work has...
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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 on...
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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 on Windsor...
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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...
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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 as...
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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...
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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...
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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 and...
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(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...
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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...
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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 foregrounds practices...
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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 society, but it...
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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 and place...
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All orders of Awkwoods will receive a PDF download of the book upon purchase, and we will ship physical copies at the earliest opportunity when Unbound reopens. "it’s a laugh a line spiritual...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 thought—including ghosts...
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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...
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Talker is an interview zine about performance. This is issue #7. It features a conversation with director, choreographer and performer Jo Fong. Though her background is a dancer, performing as part...
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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 by...
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Edited by artist Victoria Sin, Dream Babes Zine 2.0 focuses on the questions that speculative fiction can ask which are especially important now. What if things were different? What if...
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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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Nerds Rock was produced in 2006 as part of a live art residency at Camden Arts Centre. Field recordings from the walkwalkwalk route through Bethnal Green, Whitechapel and Shoreditch are...
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For walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter archive we created a series of posters for Exeter Central Station as well as more ephemeral text works that were distributed throughout the city...
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For walkwalkwalk: The Musical guest artist Tai Shani curated a spectacular live soundtrack to our route including performances by Dale Berning, The Baronessa and Mlle. Monika, The Mary Epworth Band, Jesus Licks,...
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54 intriguing ideas for different ways to take a walk - for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics. This is your invitation to some of the many different ways to wander:...
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25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics. In the summer of 2017 the editors...
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A typeface narrative revolving around an I, a pair of ravenous eyes, a mouth, and a peptic ulcer called O. In the story I is pursued by O through a...
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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,...
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Failed States is an occasional publication that aims to collate and investigate ideas around place, or more specifically: “indeterminate geographies”. Each themed issue is a trove of innovative text and image...
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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...
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In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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‘Draws on a vital history of trans performance – an emerging canon that may no longer be ignored.’ – Morgan M Page, from her foreword Seven turbulent years. Five radical...
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What happens when your gender doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be...
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Tele-Encounters is an artistic and sociological research project exploring telepresence and family relationships in the context of migration. Based on interviews with Romanian migrants in Spain and left-behind families in Romania,...
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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...
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Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation. In the different contributions which make...
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