Performance

 ​Artists 

Marina Abramović, Ulay, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, VALIE EXPORT, Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Adrian Piper, Tehching Hsieh, Laurie Anderson, Gilbert & George, Janine Antoni, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Ron Athey, Orlan, Stelarc, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Tania Bruguera, Regina José Galindo, Ragnar Kjartansson, Cassils, Anne Imhof 

Books and other resources  

Backer, Y., Beckwith, N., Sirmans, F., Cassell Oliver, V., (2012) Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum. 

e-catalogue: https://issuu.com/thecamh/docs/2012_radical_presence 

Baker, S and Loran, F (2016) Performing for the Camera. London: Tate Publishing 

Cheng, M (2002) In Other Los Angeles: Multicentric Performance Art. California: University of California Press 

Bryzgel, A. (2017) Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 

Fusco, C (2001) The Bodies That Were Not Ours: And Other Writings. London: Routledge 

Gaines, M. (2017) Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible. New York: NYU Press. 

George, A, ed. (2003) Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance. Liverpool: Tate. 

Goldberg, R. & Anderson, L. (2004) Performance: Live Art Since the 60s. London: Thames and Hudson. 

Goldberg, R. (2011) Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. 

Goldberg, R. (2018) Performance Now: Live Art for the Twenty-First Century London: Thames and Hudson. 

Goldwater, H (2016) Glimpses of Before - Study Guide/Resource: 1970s UK-based Performance Art (Partners: LADA/Queen Mary, University of London) [online and attached to material in LADA’s Study Room] 

http://1970s.thisisliveart.co.uk 

Gómez-Peña, G (2013) Ethno-techno: Writings on Performance, Activism, and Pedagogy. London: Routledge (kindle edition) 

Harris, J. eds. (2007) Dead History, Live Art? Spectacle, Subjectivity and Subversion in Visual Culture since the 1960s. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 

Heathfield, A, ed. (2004) Live: Art and Performance. London: Tate. 

Heddon, D and Klein, J, eds. (2012) Histories and Practices of Live Art. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 

Hoffmann, J and Jonas, J (2005) Perform. London: Thames and Hudson. 

Howell, A. & Bowman, J. (2015) Towards a Purposeful Accident: Elements of Performance Art via The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes. Parse Journal/Symposia: 

http://parsejournal.com/article/towards-a-purposeful-accident-elements-of-performance-art-via-the-ting-the-theatre-of-mistakes/ 

Kaprow, A (2003) Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. California: University of California Press. 

Keidan, L and Mitchell, CJ, eds. (2012) Access All Areas: Live Art and Disability. London: Live Art Development Agency. 

Maude-Roxby, A (2007) Live Art on Camera: Performance and Photography. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery. 

Moten, F. (2015) ‘Blackness and Nonperformance’ AFTERLIVES lecture MoMA video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2leiFByIIg 

O’Reilly, S. (2009) The Body in Contemporary Art. London: Thames and Hudson. 

Pagnes, A (2010) The Fall of Faust: Considerations on Contemporary Art and Action. Florence: Vest and Page Press. 

Vason, M (2015) Double Exposure. London: LADA/Intellect. 

 Vason M., Keidan L., Brine D., and Athey R. (2002) Exposures. London: Black Dog. 

Yadong Hao, S. and Hearn, M. (2010) Notes on a Return. Sunderland: Art Editions North.