LibGuides: Art: Performance Art and Dance

Dance and Performance Resources

Welcome to the research guide on Performance Art and Contemporary Dance. This guide is designed to help you navigate the rich and diverse world of performance art and contemporary dance, providing you with the tools and resources needed to explore this dynamic field. Performance art and dance are broad topics with many different facets that you can explore. While the scope of this guide focuses on contemporary performance art and contemporary dance, there are many areas such as comedy, theatre, various dance styles and so much more that you can look into. Browse the other tabs on this guide page or try searching the library catalogue using the suggested terms below to find additional resources.

Suggested Keywords

To begin your research journey, here is a short list of suggested keywords and phrases that you can use to search for relevant literature, articles, and resources. As you go deeper into your research you will collect more specific terms to focus your search.

Performance Art
Contemporary Dance
Live Art
Experimental Dance
Theatre
Performance Studies
Avant-Garde Dance
Multimedia Performance
Dance and Identity
Gender in Performance Art
Performance Art Documentation
Choreography
Site-Specific Dance
Dance -- social aspects
Embodiment
Corporeality
Drag
Performativity
Improvisation

Research Tools and Resources

Library Databases: Utilize academic databases for scholarly articles, dissertations, and books related to performance art and contemporary dance. Find recorded performance pieces in streaming video databases.
Museums and Galleries: Visit local museums and galleries with a focus on contemporary art and dance for exhibitions, catalogs, and resources.
Dance Archives: Some institutions have dedicated dance archives and libraries to preserve documentation of dance performance.
Artistic Organizations: Investigate the websites and publications of contemporary dance companies, performance art festivals, and artist collectives for valuable resources

Remember to use a combination of keywords and resources to tailor your research to your specific interests within the realm of performance art and contemporary dance. As you delve deeper into this vibrant field, you'll discover the many ways these art forms intersect with culture, society, and personal expression. Good luck with your research!

Find more resources on performance art and dance using the databases listed below. These databases offer a wealth of resources, including articles, streaming videos, and ebooks, to help you explore, study, and appreciate the dynamic realms of performance art and dance. Dive into these databases to uncover a treasure trove of knowledge and inspiration.

Academic Video Online / Alexander Street Videos This link opens in a new window
- Academic Video Online (AVON) provides access to more than 63,000* (and growing) videos all cross-searchable from a single platform. Includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
- Art & Architecture Source features full-text articles—as well as detailed indexing and abstracts—for an international array of journals, books, podcasts, images and more. Content includes over 640 full-text journals and more than 225 full-text books. Includes: Art Index / Abstracts / Full Text / Retrospective (formerly Wilson Databases) plus Art & Architecture Complete (EBSCO Database).
Art, Design & Architecture Collection This link opens in a new window
- The Art, Design & Architecture collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.
art21 This link opens in a new window
- A non-profit, Art21's focus is on contemporary art providing access to streaming films (including PBS broadcast series), video channels, educational resources, publications and more.
Black Film Archive This link opens in a new window
- A living register of Black films from 1915-1979. Created and curated by Maya S. Cade, a film expert, researcher and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Bloomsbury Video Library This link opens in a new window
- International in scope, this film database features experimental and indie films, documentaries, instructional videos, radical and avant-garde performance art, and interviews with renowned artists. Also includes videos on dance, music, and theatre performances.
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative This link opens in a new window
- The database is intended to provide a research tool that brings together the growing body of literature about women artists who worked in Canada and who were born before 1925. It covers women who worked in diverse mediums, ranging from painting and sculpture to photography and textiles. In addition to a brief biographical sketch, each entry comprises a bibliography of writings about the artist and, in cases where women artists have authored works, a separate bibliography of their writings. Locations of artists' files are indicated, as well as their association memberships.
The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative is a newly founded collaborative endeavour that brings resources and researchers together to enhance scholarship on historical women artists in Canada. Our focus is on the period prior to 1967.
Film Platform: Alexander Street This link opens in a new window
- A collection of documentary films from around the world, including many Oscar nominated documentaries and film festival winners.
L.A. Rebellion This link opens in a new window
- Student films from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television initiative, L.A Rebellion.
  L.A. Rebellion filmmakers and others discuss the movement in clips from a vintage. UCLA student-produced television program and in other conversations. From the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The ECU Library has the book and dvd anthology, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema.

The Art of Drag by Jake Hall; Sofie Birkin (Illustrator); Helen Li (Illustrator); Jasjyot Singh Hans (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN1969 .D73 H35 2020
ISBN: 9781910620717
"The history of drag has been formed by many intersections: fashion, theatre, sexuality and politics--all coming together to create the show stopping entertainment millions witness today. In this extensive work, Jake Hall delves deep into the ancient beginnings of drag, to present day and beyond. Vibrant illustrations enhance the rich history from Kabuki theatre to Shakespearean, the revolutionary Stonewall riots to the still thriving New York ballroom scene. Nothing will go undocumented in this must-have documentation of all things drag."--publisher's description
Art works: perform by Jens Hoffmann; Joan Jonas
Call Number: NX456.5 .P38 H64 2005
ISBN: 0500930066
A unique exhibition in a book, presenting challenging art that addresses the place and function of performance in the contemporary world.Art Works: An exciting new series celebrating the vitality and diversity of art in the twenty-first century. If all the world is a stage, then each of us is a performer. Every day, we act out individual roles and take part in private and collective rituals handed down by society. In our relationships with others, we hide behind masks and assumed personae; and when we interact with the objects, spaces, and environments around us, we follow established patterns of behavior set down by history and convention, playing out performances everywhere we turn. In such a world, it is no surprise that the line between art and life is sometimes blurred. Arranged into themed "rooms," this book reflects a wide variety of artistic attitudes and practices. Some artists present collaborators as the living, performing objects of their work, while others turn the audience into the main protagonists in the creative process. Some artists transform themselves through disguise or by altering their surroundings in order to perform a new reality, while others make everyday items into art by changing their function or context. Some artists explore the storytelling capacity of art, but others present only cryptic fragments that leave the viewer to complete the narrative. Where some question the permanence of art by producing ephemeral or short-lived pieces, others leave traces of their actions, and yet others seek to freeze time in highly dramatized tableaux or hyperrealistic sculptures. For some artists, performance offers the possibility of leaving the gallery environment altogether and enacting art in public, on the street, for everybody. All of the artists in this book use art to puzzle out the complicated ways in which performance plays a part in our daily experiences. --publisher's description
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left by Malik Gaines
Call Number: PN1590 .B53 G35 2017
ISBN: 9781479837038
This book illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. These ideas paved the way for imaginative models for social transformation through performance. Using the notion of excess -- its transgression, multiplicity, and ambivalence -- Malik Gaines considers how performances of that era circulated a black political discourse capable of unsettling commonplace understandings of race, gender, and sexuality. Following the transnational route forged by W.E.B. Du Bois, Josephine Baker, and other modern political actors, from the United States to West Africa, Europe and back, this book considers how artists negotiated at once the local, national, and diasporic frames through which race has been represented. Looking broadly at performances found in music, theater, film, and everyday life from American singer and pianist Nina Simone, Ghanaian playwrights Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, Afro-German actor Gunther Kaufmann, to California-based performer Sylvester Gaines explores how shared signs of racial legacy and resistance politics are articulated with regional distinction. Bringing the lens forward through contemporary art performance at the 2015 Venice Biennial, Gaines connects the idea of sixties radicality to today's interest in that history, explores the aspects of those politics that are lost in translation, and highlights the black expressive strategies that have maintained potent energy.--publisher's description
The Ethics of Art by Pascal Gielen (Editor); Arne De Boever (Text by); Kathelin Gray (Text by); Guy Cools (Editor); Karolien Byttebier (Text by); Sidi Cherkaoui (Text by)
Call Number: NX180 .E8 E845 2014
ISBN: 9789078088875
The Ethics of Art attempts to describe how artistic imagination can produce new situations, based on the potentials and limits of the singular ‘body’ within its environment. It addresses performance and dance in Europe, but embeds this in the larger context of eco-art practices by also providing striking examples from the USA and Canada. The first section Ecosophy, discusses eco-art practices and how the ethical turn in the arts implies a greater receptivity for the environment we live in. The second section, Caring for the Body, focuses on dance and the renewed interest in ‘the body’, body politics and collaboration. This structure allows the specificity of an art-inspired ethics to emerge.--publisher's description
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art by T. J. Bacon
Call Number: BF697 .B33 2022
ISBN: 9781789385304
This book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice. In its framing and execution of practical exercises and focused snapshots of internationally recognized performance practice, Bacon situates their argument within the boundaries of specialism in the critical curation of performance art praxis as well as contemporary phenomenological scholarship. Introducing the study and application of performance art through phenomenology for radical artists, educators and practitioner-researchers; this exciting new book invites readers to take part, explore contemporary performance art and activate their own practices. Applying a queer phenomenology to unpack the importance of a multiplicity of Self/s, the book guides readers to be academically rigorous when capturing embodied experiences, featuring exercises to activate their practices and clear introductory definitions to key phenomenological terms. Includes interviews and insights from some of the best examples of transgressive performance art practice of this century help to help unpack the application of phenomenology as Bacon calls for a queer reimagining of Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art.' This is an important contribution to the field, and will be welcomed by performance artists and academics interested in performance. It may also appeal to those teaching concepts of phenomenology
Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? by Ana Janevvski (Editor)
Call Number: NX460.5 .P47 I88 2017
ISBN: 9783956791185
The book, co-published with Sternberg Press and designed by Wkshps, New York, is expanded from the 2014 eponymous conference organised by Para Site, and is dedicated to the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art. Taking Hong Kong as a vantage point, this publication highlights recent efforts of art historians in different parts of the globe to retrace performance genealogies, exploring how non-Western histories of performance have been recuperated, translated, integrated, or excluded from the new institutional realities of contemporary art. The book includes eighteen commissioned essays and conversations which are case studies that examine the different facets of performance in both art galleries and public spaces; eleven artists/groups contribute inserts which create narratives that point out and extend the boundaries of what is possible in the paradigm of art and performance today. Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? proposes that a “new performance turn” has emerged and looks at its correlations with other shifts in practices, discourses, and broader society.--publisher's description
More caught in the act : an anthology of performance art by Canadian women
Call Number: NX456.5 .P38 C392 2016
ISBN: 9780920397640
More Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women is an indispensable compendium of original research and writing on, and images of, Canadian women in performance art covering work made from 1990 to 2010. Like the first volume, Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women (2004), this book gives readers a first-hand glimpse into this vibrant and largely under recognized subject in contemporary Canadian art history. More Caught in the Act includes 29 comprehensive profiles of artists from across the country, along with five contextual essays that place current performance strategies by women within broader art historical and cultural contexts. --publisher's description
Perform, Repeat, Record by Adrian Heathfield (Editor); Amelia Jones (Editor)
Call Number: NX456.5 .P38 P47 2012
ISBN: 9781841504896
Bringing together contributors from dance, theater, visual studies, and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other art forms in that it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists both at the time of its staging and long after in the memories of its spectators and their testimonies, as well as in material objects, visual media, and text, all of which offer new critical possibilities. Among the artists, theorists, and historians who contributed to this volume are Marina Abramovic, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Rebecca Schneider, Boris Groys, Jane Blocker, Carolee Schneemann, Tehching Hsieh, Orlan, Tilda Swinton, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Performance in Contemporary Art by Catherine Wood
Call Number: NX460.5 .P47 W66 2022
ISBN: 9781849768238
"In this important new survey, Catherine Wood proposes performance not as a genre of art separate from object-making but as an attitude that has infiltrated the entire terrain of contemporary art. From the musical-theatricals of Marvin-Gaye Chetwynd to the public encounters created by Tino Seghal and the social activism of Tania Bruguera, a hugely divergent set of practices has emerged in the past twenty to thirty years which embrace the worlds of sculpture and painting, spectacle and protest. Examining in turn individual, social and object-based approaches in the field, Wood first examines the influential performance art of the 1960s to 1980s: the body art of the Viennese actionists; the raw performances of Yoko Ono and Chris Burden; and the experiments of the Japanese Gutai group among others. She then explores how these sources have been revisited, reformed or rejected by contemporary artists in the twenty-first century. This impressive book encompasses international artists who fall outside the traditional European and North American focus, giving the reader the broadest and most up-to-date insight into the subject yet published."--publisher's description
Performativity in the Gallery by Outi Remes (Editor); Laura MacCulloch (Editor); Marika Leino (Editor)
Call Number: NX456.5 .P38 P474 2014
ISBN: 9783034309660
This book responds to the increase in live art programmed in many galleries and museums. The essays challenge the exclusion of live art from the the art history canon and explore participation, interactivity, digital and performative practices as presented in gallery spaces. Contributors include curators, academic scholars and practicing artists.

Assign & arrange : methodologies of presentation in art and dance
Call Number: N8217 .D3 A8 2014
ISBN: 9783943365900
Assign & arrange: Methodologies of presentation in art and dance' aims to map the exchanges and transgressions between art and dance that characterize the manifold variety of relations between art and dance that can be observed today: dance performances taking place in art galleries or public spaces, for example, or visual artists developing specific presentational formats or exhibition displays that generate dimensions of dramaturgy and choreography for their visitors. Terms like mise-en-scène, situation, setting, choreography, and installation are being almost coevally used not only by theoreticians but also by contributors from both art and dance in order to define modes of presentation or to specify visitors' aesthetic experience. Taking into account historical and current examples, and involving perspectives from art history, dance studies, and architecture, the book explores similarities and differences in the respective practices, as well as in the theoretical concepts they correspond with.--publisher's description
Body Space Image by Miranda Tufnell; Chris Crickmay
Call Number: PN2071 .I5 T84 1993
ISBN: 9781852730413
The first of its kind, Body, Space, Image is a remarkable book about improvisation - a narrative of discovery that sets the mind loose from the rut of everyday perception. From a starting point in movement, improvisation is extended to include groups working together and the physical setting of performance - space, light, sound, objects. Generously illustrated with examples drawn from the last twenty years of experimental performance, Body, Space, Image explores ways of working and ways of thinking about performance that will inspire both the beginner and the experienced artist. It is a manual intended to stimulate rather than instruct. It offers rich pickings rather than a comprehensive system of working, and includes a unique collection of images - from dance theatre, and painting - and statements by working artists. Words and images combine to celebrate and record one of the most exacting art forms developed this century. Body Space Image has always been in demand as a standard work for dancers and other artists.
Caught Falling by Nancy Stark Smith; David Koteen
Call Number: GV1781.2 .K684 2008
ISBN: 9780937645093
The inside-out of dancer/Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year involvement with Contact Improvisation. The book includes Q&As between the authors tracing the history of the dance form; photos of dancing and living; life stories; anecdotes from friends, colleagues, and family; and a description of Stark Smith's Underscore. The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s. It is a score that guides dancers through a series of "changing states" from solo deepening/releasing and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out to full group improvisation with compositional awareness, and back to rest and reflection.--publisher's description
The Choreographic by Jenn Joy
Call Number: GV1588.3 .J69 2014
ISBN: 9780262526357
The choreographic stages a conversation in which artwork not only is looked at but looks back; it is about contact that touches even across distance. The choreographic moves between the corporeal and cerebral to tell the stories of these encounters as dance trespasses into the discourse and disciplines of visual art and philosophy through a series of stutters, steps, trembles, and spasms. In The Choreographic, Jenn Joy examines dance and choreography not only as artistic strategies and disciplines but also as intrinsically theoretical and critical practices. She investigates artists in dialogue with philosophy, describing a movement of conceptual choreography that flourishes in New York and on the festival circus. Joy offers close readings of a series of experimental works, arguing for the choreographic as an alternative model of aesthetics. She explores constellations of works, artists, writers, philosophers, and dancers, in conversation with theories of gesture, language, desire, and history. She choreographs a revelatory narrative in which Walter Benjamin, Pina Bausch, Francis Alÿs, and Cormac MacCarthy dance together; she traces the feminist and queer force toward desire through the choreography of DD Dorvillier, Heather Kravas, Meg Stuart, La Ribot, Miguel Gutierrez, luciana achugar, and others; she maps new forms of communicability and pedagogy; and she casts science fiction writers Samuel R. Delany and Kim Stanley Robinson as perceptual avatars and dance partners for Ralph Lemon, Marianne Vitali, James Foster, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Constructing an expanded notion of the choreographic, Joy explores how choreography as critical concept and practice attunes us more productively uncertain, precarious, and ecstatic understanding of aesthetics and art making. -- from cover.
The choreography of everyday life by Annie-B Parson
Call Number: GV1782.5 .P37 2022
ISBN: 9781839766770
"In this sparkling, innovative, fully illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance--time, proximity, space, motion, and tone--into text. Parson invites the reader to share her home, her reading, her walks down the street, and her conversations on everything from Homer to feminist art to social protest. She helps us to see how everyday movement creates the wider world. Dance, it turns out, is everything and everywhere"--publisher's description
Dance by Andre Lepecki (Editor)
Call Number: GV1588.3 .D36 2012
ISBN: 9780262517775
This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines the philosophies of movement instrumental to the development of experimental dance. By introducing and discussing the concepts of embodiment and corporeality, choreopolitics, and the notion of dance in an expanded field, Dance establishes the aesthetics and politics of dance as a major impetus in contemporary culture. It offers testimonies and writings by influential visual artists whose work has taken inspiration from dance and choreography.--publisher's description
Imaginative Bodies by Lisa Marie Bowler (Editor)
Call Number: GV1782 .C657 2016
ISBN: 9789492095206
Imaginative Bodies' contains a series of in-depth conversations with dancers and choreographers, composers, visual artists, Hip Hop artists, dramaturgs, a lighting designer and a puppeteer. The overall theme is defined by the body, both in relation to the place it takes in the artist's work, and in relation to wider debates on the body in philosophy, science, medicine, anthropology, and the arts. Depending on the affinities of the artist, a more specific theme has been defined for each dialogue, ranging from poetics to politics, from mythology to ecology, from intercultural studies to conflict management. The associative chains of thoughts of these talks give an intimate insight into the creative process, inspirations, sources, identity, and ways of collaborating. It is through the sentient body that we experience, know and imagine. 'Imaginative Bodies' reaffirms the central position of the body in many artistic practices.--publisher's description
Move. Choreographing You by Stephanie Rosenthal (Editor)
Call Number: N8217 .D3 M68 2011
ISBN: 9780262516297
Move. Choreographing You explores the interaction between visual art and dance since the 1960s. This beautifully illustrated book, published in connection with a major exhibition, focuses on visual artists and choreographers who create sculptures and installations that direct the movements of audiences—making them dancers and active participants. Move shows that choreography is not merely about the notation of movement on paper or in film but about the ways the body inhabits sculpture and installations.
The book documents some of the diverse but interconnected ways that visual art and choreography have come together over the past fifty years. Among the artists whose work helped to forge the art-dance connection are Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Lygia Clark, Bruce Nauman, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Franz West, Mike Kelley, Isaac Julien, and William Forsythe. Artists from a younger generation who helped to bring the worlds of art and dance together are also looked at—Trisha Donnelly, Christian Jankowski, and Tino Sehgal among them. Move also features new commissions by leading international artists and reconstructions of important works from the past as well as an illustrated contextual archive and timeline.
The Place of Dance by Andrea Olsen; Caryn McHose (Other)
Call Number: GV1601 .O57 2014
ISBN: 9780819574053
The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing is our nature, available to all as well as refined for the stage. Andrea Olsen is an internationally known choreographer and educator who combines the science of body with creative practice. This workbook integrates experiential anatomy with the process of moving and dancing, with a particular focus on the creative journey involved in choreographing, improvising, and performing for the stage. Each of the chapters, or "days," introduces a particular theme and features a dance photograph, information on the topic, movement and writing investigations, personal anecdotes, and studio notes from professional artists and educators for further insight. The third in a trilogy of works about the body, including Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy and Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, The Place of Dance will help each reader understand his/her dancing body through somatic work, create a dance, and have a full journal clarifying aesthetic views on his or her practice. It is well suited for anyone interested in engaging embodied intelligence and living more consciously.--publisher's description
Spiritual herstories : call of the soul in dance research by Amanda Williamson (Editor); Barbara Sellers-Young (Editor)
Call Number: GV1595 .S75 2020
ISBN: 9781789380828
This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the globe. Building on current soulful research scholarship in the discipline, these authors offer extensive and detailed research into spirituality, dance, gender, religion, and somatics. Written by women dance scholars in higher education, this evocative and illuminating work highlights a growing discourse on gendered leadership in dance research. Spiritual Herstories provides new pathways and innovative research methods that respond to the educational needs of women emerging in male-centric socio-historic research traditions.--publisher's description
Terpsichore's deck : an instructional and inspirational deck of ChoreoCards to use in composition and choreography
Call Number: GV1782.5 .L37 2015
This card deck can be found in the games collection on the library mezzanine. Terpsichore's Deck is a deck of instructional cards for choreography. Each set of 52 cards lends insight and inspiration into the choreographic process.

The books in this selection are part of the Artists' books collection and deal with performance. Some of them contain documentation of or instructions for a performance, and some explore performance conceptually. Find out more about the library's artists' books collection in the Artists' Books Research Guide

Carolee Schneemann: Uncollected Texts by Carolee Schneemann (Artist); Branden Joseph (Editor)
Call Number: P756 S36 C37
Publication Date: 2018
"Dating from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, the writings gathered in this volume shed light on some of Schneemann's most important artistic achievements, including her most famous 'kinetic theater' piece, 'Meat Joy'; anti-Vietnam War works such as 'Snows'; the multimedia performance 'Up to and Including Her Limits'; and the double-screen film 'Kitch's Last Meal'." -- Provided by Publisher
Changes: Notes on Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Call Number: S6784 C86 C43
Publication Date: 1968
"Originally published in 1968 by Dick Higgins’ iconoclastic Something Else Press, the book can be viewed as a 170-page print version of an art performance piece. Just as Cunningham spent most of his career approaching choreography and movement in time and space from an original point of view, this book offers notes, images, and drawings of his work in a non-linear, non-traditional way. Taken together, they form a rich panorama of his ideas, work, and impulses, shown through a lens particular to the time and place of its initial publication." the-song-cave.com
Crushed Guava Leaves by Oroma Elewa
Call Number: E449 C78
ISBN: 9780692048931
Publication Date: 2017
"Crushed Guava Leaves is a multi-part project that explores transnationalism. It is the transnational African cosmopolitan lens applied to performance. It is performance as play, as identity, as politics, as language and as mannerism. It is a collection of experiential narratives primed for sound and movement, on stage and film. It is a collection of short stories – cultural snapshots – borne out of my memories, dreams, encounters, conversations, and observations. Each piece ranges in heft and weight, from detailed recounting to fleeting impressions. Yet all invite reflection on the canon of performance art – on what can be performed and what is valuable material for cultural performance. Crushed Guava Leaves is an invitation to immerse in an evocative textual and aural landscape inspired by my remembrances and of the beauty and tensions of African transnationalism."-- Artist's Website
Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
Call Number: O56 G73
ISBN: 9780743201100
Publication Date: 2000
"Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life."--provided by publisher
Inverted Sky by Marthe Ramm Fortun (Artist); Johanne Nordby Werno (Text by)
ISBN: 9781910433126
Publication Date: 2014
Based on Marthe Ramm Fortun's site-specific project at Grand Central Terminal, in New York City. A lyrical guided tour of Grand Central Terminal was part of a performance series for Performa 13, an international biennial for performance art in New York City.
Loci: Three Performances for Interior Spaces by Allyson Clay
Call Number: C629 L63
Publication Date: 2012
"Three Performances for Interior Spaces – text and images. Two Walking Performances in a City – text and images." -- Artist's Website
Sure I'm Sure: A Performance by Ida Appebroog
Call Number: A675 S87
Publication Date: 1979
Take out: Performance Recipes for Public Space by Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
Call Number: C3683 T35
ISBN: 9782980864803
Publication Date: 2004
"La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse in Montreal puts art into the public sphere with TAKE OUT: performance recipes for public space. Twelve step-by-step performances by top performance artists printed on individual cards in both French and English and packaged in a box, ready to be performed in public outdoor spaces everywhere by you. TAKE OUT is about sharing, transmitting and experiencing, featuring recipes by Vida Simon, Essi Kausalainen, Colette Urban, Nathalie Derome & Anna Beaudin, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Mara Verna, Tagny Duff, Johanna Householder, Suzanne Joly & Sylvie Tourangeau, Julie Andrée T, Pam Patterson, and Marie-Suzanne Désilets." -- 7a-11d.ca
Unlearning Walks by Catherine Grau, Zoe Kreye
Call Number: P835 G73 U55
ISBN: 9781927394229
Publication Date: 2014
"This publication is part of the series Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation, curated by Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, and accompanies a series of performances, public actions, lectures, and an exhibition presented by UNIT/PITT in 2013 and 2014 with the assistance of our presenting partners, SFU Institute for Humanities and SFU Vancity Office for Community Engagement."-- Colophon.