Art - Performance

What if I told you that you would be happier and more confident if you planned less and made stuff up more? The tools improvisers use to create wonderful-and often hilarious-scenes on stage are easily transferred off the stage and into real life. These...

The Guerilla Performance and Multimedia Handbook is the ultimate guide for artists at all stages of their careers engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including hybrids of theatre, visual art, installation, physical theatre, dance, CD-Rom and web design. It covers all aspects...

This is the first full-length monograph on the history of Dutch mime. Dutch mime is a vibrant and innovatory branch of contemporary theatre which evolved in the margins of the theatre establishment from the early 1960s, leaving far behind its origins in literal pantomime....

A performative meditation on the ethical implications of private security as both a concept and an industryThis book accompanies Finnish artist Pilvi Takala's (born 1981) exhibition at the Venice Biennale chronicling the six months she spent working as a security guard at a mall....

Documenting the latest performance art from the 2017 recipient of the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion AwardBerlin and New York-based German artist Anne Imhof (born 1978) is known for her endurance performance art exploring the mediation of human physicality through digital technology and social media....

A comprehensive four-volume boxed set exploring Beuys' life and career, from those who knew him bestEach volume in this boxed set explores a specific Joseph Beuys (1921-86) project, offering an insider's view of some of his most original works and celebrating the extraordinary 18-year...

Two decades of video works from an experimental filmmaker and dramaturgistThe word "Waldeinsamkeit" refers to the phenomenon of retreating to the forest in isolation. Fascinated by the current trend spurred by this holdover from German Romanticism, London-based experimental filmmaker and dramaturgist John Smith (born...

A collaborative and transdisciplinary ballet piece inspired by Dante's odyssey of deathBritish artist Tacita Dean (born 1965) was recently commissioned by The Royal Opera House to collaborate with choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer Thomas Ad鑚 on a piece inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy....

A multimedia meditation on the many meanings of the ocean across historyThis volume closely follows the development of Joan Jonas' (born 1936) multiformat project Moving off the Land. The artist's most recent body of work, it encompasses three years of research into the significance...

Dive into this "introspectacle" and weird world of the Curious! This anthology of eight plays offers readers irreverent and iconoclastic narratives by playwrights with a keen ear for the eccentricities and homespun quirks of language. The Curious Theater Branch offers an ensemble of diverse...

Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption. Author: Paul Mountfort, Anne Peirson-Smith, Adam GeczyISBN-10: 1789381517ISBN-13: 9781789381511Publisher: Intellect...

A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of now-common...

This journey, which Chris Tait has created for Diablo and the people, is dazzling and dynamic. It's an ensemble piece where you are on a odyssey into a dark and confusing world that is trying to be understood. In the style of Lewis Carroll...

This performative publication immerses readers in a world of social intimacyVenezuela-born, Denmark-based choreographer Sara Gebran (born 1964) uses the page as a public space where readers experience shared imaginaries. This book journeys through personal reflections, political rants, song lyrics, lists and more, capturing contemporary...

This book documents seven installation-performances by American sculptor and photographer Corin Hewitt (born 1971), from 2007. The extensive collection of images--including preparatory sketches, process shots, exhibition documentation and discrete photographic works--constitutes a rich, comprehensive study of Hewitt's oeuvre.Author: Corin HewittISBN-10: 8867490621ISBN-13: 9788867490622Publisher: Mousse PublishingLanguage:...

Feminist figurations that pose the body as a site of political struggleReleased to accompany her first major solo exhibition in North America and Denmark, this publication comprises 25 years of output from the uncompromising Swiss artist Miriam Cahn (born 1949). Throughout her long career,...

This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period, based on research in the fields of literary studies, art history, theatre studies, cultural history and the study of emotions. The volume's two-fold approach to the hurt body, defining...

The image of the dramaturg resembling a stuffy librarian, as opposed to the largely intuitive process of theatre making, belongs to the past. Contemporary theatre performances not only tell a story, but constantly reflect on the world in which that story takes place and...

Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arches was the beating heart of Glasgow. In 1991, former punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked into the disused red brick Victorian...

The Islamic nation has gone through more severe periods than we are in, so this play was a reality of not despair, and a catalyst towards unification and struggle, to raise the tone of hope for the future through the buds of tomorrow, and...

A real historical picture of the life of Al-Asdar Al-Akbar, with projections on the real picture, for it, is a vivid picture of the conflict, and it is a real picture of the conflict, the landscape, and the present in the region, with its...

A poetic play that talks about the Arab Al-Rula tribe located in the desert between Hama and the Levant.A new theatrical epic written by His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah condemns the idea of violence through a historical theme, to make the relationship of...

In this play, Dr Sultan Al Qasimi embodies the idea of the conflict between the luminaries who are trying to present the bright image of Islam in the face of the obscurantists who are trying to distort the bright image of Islam.Author: Shiekh Sultan...

A richly illustrated study of wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, based on unprecedented decades-long participatory research. Wayang, the traditional puppet theater form of Java, fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium--bearing the weight of Javanese...

The Ethics of Art explores the growing ethical consciousness within the artistic community, as it relates to art's production and distribution mechanisms. It attempts to show how the artistic community engages in creative, social dialogue based upon the potential of the body. The first...

Includes the plays Chips With Everything, Their Very Own and Golden City, The Journalists, Badenheim 1939 and, published here for the first time, Phoenix Phoenix, Burning Bright. Described variously as 'a dangerous playwright, 'a melancholy optimist', and 'the unique outsider in the British Theatre',...

Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation scrutinises the form of the recipe, using it as a means to explore a multitude of subjects in post-war Western art and culture, including industrial mass-production, consumerism, hidden labour, and art engaged with the everyday. Each chapter...

A mythogeographic guide to sacred space, place and time, non-systems magic, psychic war, conspiracies, somatics, ghosts, paganism, conjuring Planet B, the third hauntology, jellyfish, apocalypse, what the horses mean, and the transformation of certain readers moving from fiction to fictioning.Author: Phil SmithISBN-10: 1913743578ISBN-13: 9781913743574Publisher:...

Film does far more than document performance--it actively recreates the time and space of performance and overhauls its rapport with the viewer's eye and body. The first book to look in-depth at the intersection of film and performance in relation to issues and theories...

Voice-over acting is no longer all about having that "announcer-y" boom or classic fireside radio voice. More and more casting directors are looking for regular, "conversational" voices to represent a product in a commercial or to play the animated moose in a new Hollywood...

In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, brownface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the poor, the marginalized, and the racialized....

Chaos, crisis, and change are recurring themes in life. You might fear the chaos, operate in constant crisis, or resist change. But that is an exhausting way to live. So how do you find resilience and gratitude through the turmoil of life?Despite living through...

Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, how it fosters transformation, and gives us access to deep memory and rest, while also cultivating stability and responsiveness in the present. Practising, in...

Who was this book made for?- Theatre teachers / directors who need an easily assessable resource of acting scenes for various mixes of male and female actors- Actors who are looking for short acting scenes to use to display your talents- Anyone who needs...

PACT Zollverein is an international venue for contemporary art, performance, and research located in the former changing house of the Zollverein coal mine industrial Author: Katharina BurkhardtISBN-10: 3954765314ISBN-13: 9783954765317Publisher: DistanzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2022Pages: 144Format: Paperback

Already well known in the international electronic music scene, French DJ and sound artist Chloe brings her surrealist approach to sound to a new artist's book and audio recording. Featuring photographs, manuscript excerpts and other ephemera, the publication serves as an echo"to an original...

'It's true. It's all true for Moby-Dick. He's a killer, he's a fury, he's an angel of hell. Why if the white whale could talk he'd talk like Ahab.' Nantucket. 1851. Centre of a whaling industry that transformed blubber into the oils and candles...

A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await...

Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who then have to begin a dangerous quest for a place to belong. It is...

London Wall is a wryly comic look at the life of women office workers in the 1930s. In a solicitor's office in the City, Brewer, the office manager, sees pretty new 19-year-old typist Pat as fair game. As some of the more experienced secretaries...

In 1997, a BAFTA award-winning British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they're back, live on stage, only for them, it really has to be The Full Monty. Simon Beaufoy, the...

'Just because you appear to have secrets don't mean your secrets are all that interestin'.' A young female soldier returns from Afghanistan to a home she no longer recognises or connects with. She has proved herself in combat but her hardest battle is yet...

Two little known Priestley plays, which, while they are quite different, have important features in common. The 31st of June is a comedy set partly in an advertising agency and partly in a medieval castle; Jenny Villiers is a serious play set backstage in...

'In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It's like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to fuck one of the bridesmaids. That's the way it goes.' From cosmopolitan London to the...

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain's leading playwrights. Bram Stoker's Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern world. Its inhabitants can go...

Friendships grow in the most unlikely of places. Mrs Reynolds is a little old lady. Jay is a troubled youth. When he vandalises her lovingly tended garden, the authorities send him back to help her fix it. It seems a recipe for disaster -...

Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish...

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible....

Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created - in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker - two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at...

New writing based on the fables Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Intended originally as a book of Council for Kings, literally, a 'mirror' for princes, these subtle and philosophical animal fables carry immense significance to all sections of Arab...