The book is the outcome of research on the themes of sex, sexuality and performativity which started in summer 2019 and was concluded in autumn 2021. The investigation starts from a curatorial perspective, situated in the field of contemporary Italian visual and performing arts, and evolves by absorbing contents from a variety of disciplines (philosophy, literature, history and pornography). The research is based on the firm conviction – here turned into a method – that a critical theory able to go beyond the disciplinary compartments of knowledge is an important practical tool for facing the political challenges of our contemporary world.

Selbstinszenierung, Selbstentblößung, Selbstauslöschung – das sind die Themen, die Michaela Moscouw (*1961) über drei Jahrzehnte kompromisslos, exzessiv und einprägsam bearbeitete. Bis Anfang der 1980er-Jahre malte die Wiener Künstlerin abstrakte Bilder, dann zerstörte sie ihr gesamtes Werk und filmte sich dabei. Damit wechselte sie das Medium und verwendete

"Healing The Museum" is a mid-career monograph looking at Grace Ndiritu’s diverse practice over the last twenty years, which encompasses performance, film, social actions, painting, publications, textile work, and collection research.

From one of the most lauded artists of his generation comes a purging soliloquy: a profound nowt delivered in some spent afterwards.

Queer Nursing offers an alternative, inclusive way for both performing and supporting nursing. Written as a human manual, it takes the reader through the nursing process from start to finish. Through easy, loving language it supports nursing parents, other parental figure(s) and friends in their journey of emotional and physical milestones as well as offering gentle ways to take care of each other.
The manual includes a new way of nursing by introducing the phasing system, which will aid the family in both starting and ending nursing in a calm, caring way. Queer Nursing is Gorilla Milk’s first release.

Die Wiener Gruppe – Friedrich Achleitner, H. C. Artmann, Konrad Bayer, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener – entstand zwischen 1952 und 1955 aus einem Kreis avantgardistischer Künstler, die dem Wiener „Art-Club“ verbunden waren. Bei aller Verschiedenartigkeit

The publication is an essay written by Kirsty Bell on “Help the Dead” by Every Ocean Hughes.

A multimedia meditation on the many meanings of the ocean across history

“Where Do You Draw The Line Between Art and Politics?” consists of a series of interviews with individuals who have been active in various capacities at the intersection of art and politics.

The renowned Polish contemporary artist is known for his participatory art projects, figurative sculptures and performative self-portraits.

CORNER football + society is a periodical publication that proposes a crossdisciplinary approach, taking football and its complex contemporary and historical context as a starting point.

Unsorcery composes and explores ways of sorcery that can eventually surpass or undo some of the contemporary realities and subjectivities.

“Dengler’s oeuvre is also about trauma, both personal and collective, and although it offers no consolation whatsoever, another place where it investigates the meanderings of the human psyche is the shrink’s—pop or not—sofa.

Including essays about Barbara Hammer, Agnès Varda, Camille Billops, Jane Arden, Penny Slinger, Ana Mendieta, Hito Steyerl, Mati Diop, Catherine Breillat, Carol Morley, Ulrike Ottinger, Charlotte Prodger, Charlotte Pryce, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Gloria Camiruaga, Margarethe von Trotta, Astra Taylor, Lina Wertmüller. Interviews with Akosua Adoma Owusu, Astra Taylor, Ericka Beckman, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer

This book is dedicated to the complex artistic trajectory of Chiara Fumai, who played a significant role in the development of performance and feminist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and who died prematurely in 2017, at the age of only thirty-nine.

Das materialreiche, mit zahlreichen Faksimiles und Abbildungen ausgestattete Katalogbuch widmet sich dem Theaterschaffen des Autors erstmals in großem Umfang.

Koloman Mosers: In diesem Band wird erstmals die Gesamtheit seiner Theaterarbeiten – von der intimen Kabarettbühne bis zur großen Opernausstattung – gezeigt, das bisher wenig beachtete Bühnenschaffen dieses vielseitigen „Tausendkünstlers“.

Hermann Nitsch (*1938 in Wien) ist ein bedeutender Wegbereiter des Wiener Aktionismus. Seit 1957 arbeitet er an der Verwirklichung seines zentralen Werkes: Das Orgien-Mysterien-Theater ist ein nonverbales,

First monograph devoted to the work of video artist and performer Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944-1976), an artistic figure of the Californian scene in the 1970s, based on extensive research and three international exhibitions.

Since 2001 Prinz Gholam have been dealing with the self and the body as cultural constructs in their performative work. In the actions they perform together, the two artists succeed in revealing and breaking through the postures of our iconographic heritage that are consciously or unconsciously inscribed in us.

A major figure of the French arts scene, Xavier Veilhan (born in 1963) lives and works in Paris. His work is the result of a plural practice, shared between sculpture, painting, environment, live performance, video, and photography.

'The book Public Sphere by Performance results from a two-year research project Performance and the Public that Ana Vujanović, Bojana Cvejić and Marta Popivoda carried out in 2011 and 2012, during the residency of TkH (Walking Theory) platform (Belgrade) at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillier. The part of the research of Marta Popivoda gave rise to the documentary film Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body.

Read in the "Touch" issue: ­­A Singaporean artist connects with Hijikata Tatsumi from beyond the grave • A Lycanthrope turns into a Manta Ray, a story of metamorphosis • Connecting during quarantine, with TikTok • Touching Palestine in a contemporary art center in Dubai • A Norwegian cartel redefines modern-day manhood • Dr. Aline LePierre talks about the healing power of touch

Bodies are agents and products of history. Bodies are history made flesh, but they are also primary tools for understanding the past, present and future. History is a choreographed sequence of gestures that makes bodies intelligible to each other. Every gesture is a link in a chain binding us to gender, race and social class. Gestures solidify into identities. They enact identities that become natural through the systematic repetition of identical

Brice Dellsperger pushes the boundaries of genre and gender. In his multifaceted reprises of iconic film sequences—all assembled under the title Body Double—the cineast and artist reenacts selected scenes from well-known films frame for frame and lets his “body doubles” perform all of the roles, be they male or female

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

Weiß bemalte, nackte Körper, die Gesichter vom Betrachter abgewendet, so fotografiert Nadav Kander (*1961 in Israel) die Modelle seiner jüngsten Serie. Die Accessoires sind spärlich, die Ästhetik ist reduziert, gleichwohl erscheint das Arrangement der meist üppigen Körper barock.

Die Reihe KUB Arena Publikationen, herausgegeben von Yilmaz Dziewior und Eva Birkenstock, begleitet ab Herbst 2012 regelmäßig die Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsprojekte der KUB Arena.

This book is the printed manifestation of Alfred Palestra.

This publication is conceived as a conceptual artist’s book and deliberately avoids a linear narrative or comprehensive overview.

Die Spanierin Esther Ferrer war 1967 erstmals an einer Performance beteiligt, einem Konzert der Künstlergruppe ZAJ. Seither hat sie eine ganz spezifische Art von Minimalismus entwickelt, in dem konzeptuelle Strenge und das Absurde Hand in Hand gehen.

Alberto García del Castillo writes genre fiction and nonfiction about communities and queer, performs his own and other people’s writings, and collaborates in multiple configurations.

WORK THE ROOM criss-crosses the field of contemporary performance art investigating critical actions and the forms they take: How can politics be performed when the public consists of those present and sharing a room?

Two actors – female and male – read sentences from different wrist watch advertisements from the 1970s and 1980s, and re-enact the compositions of hands used on these images.

Specially produced supplement for issue No. 5 (2009) of the dutch contemporary art magazine "Metropolis M", in which artists created small games for the reader to play.

A project by LABO21, Troubleyn / Jan Fabre, University of Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

This publication includes photographs taken by Miguel Calderón of a Mexican police motorcycle squadron performing (and mostly failing) in creating The Human Pyramid or El Triángulo Perfecto and other stunts.

Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days, an intimate and hardly qualifiable document by Marcos Lutyens.

ZOON/ Thomas Desi erforscht mit einer Hommage an Frédéric Chopin seltsame Blüten im Umgang mit Genies, Reliquien und Meisterwerken unter der Devise "Comic ist Oper".

Thomas Desi kombiniert in diesem vom Film Noir inspirierten Melodrama die Gestapo Protokolle von Katalin Karády mit Texten aus dem historischen Umfeld und der Filmorchesterpartitur von Karádys erstem Film "Tödlicher Frühling" von Tibor Polgár.

"Es ist verboten zu träumen, und doch träume ich." - Die Journalistin Charlotte Beradt sammelte zwischen 1933 und 1939 Traumprotokolle von Menschen im Hitlerregime. Die Träume enthüllen Kräfte und Zwänge, es verwischen sich Grenzen von Tragik und Komik.

Der Amerikanerin Carolee Schneemann wurde in den frühen 1960er-Jahren die Leinwand zu eng. Sie begann die Malerei in den Raum auszudehen und ihren Körper als Material einzusetzen.

Die Amerikanerin Martha Rosler ist eine scharfzüngige Kritikerin und Kommentatorin. Mit ihren engagierten und humorvollen Bestandesaufnahmen zur geopolitischen und soziokulturellen Lage wendet sie sich explizit an eine breite Öffentlichkeit.

Ulrike Rosenbach war eine der ersten in Europa, die in den 1970er-Jahren mit Performance und Video zur arbeiten begann. Ein innovativer und experimenteller Gebrauch der Medien zeichnet sowohl ihre frühen Video-Live-Aktionen aus, wie auch ihre aktuellen Videoskulpturen und Medieninstallationen.

Art for All' is the maxim of the celebrated artists Gilbert & George. Tate Media and the Arts Council are therefore delighted to be able to release their iconic feature length film, The World of Gilbert & George to a wider audience for the first time. A major work, written and directed by Gilbert & George, it is an extraordinary journey into the world of this influential and controversial duo.

Theater of Exhibitions analyzes “art after the end of art,” questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. The book also considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital age.

In the media theatre of contemporary culture, a drama unfolds: While the human sense of “the present” is challenged by the immediacy of analog signal transmission and the delays of digital data processing, a different (non-)sense of time unfolds within technologies themselves.

Intellectual whores

The project employed 17 intellectuals from humanistic field to sell their knowledge on the streets of Maribor during the hot 29 summer evenings.

Sirio Luginbühl was an Italian underground film-maker, his film production beginning in 1967. With friends, filmmakers, and artists he experimented with innovative techniques and styles. He was also interested in art and literature and took part in various avant-garde projects in Italy.

All in ist ein Rückblick auf eine Auswahl performativer Arbeiten des Künstlers Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann.

Interview 03

Die vorliegende Edition erscheint in der Reihe «Performance Saga Interviews 01–08», welche Aufzeichnungen von Gesprächen mit Pionierinnen der Performancekunst versammelt und Einblick in ihr Selbstverständnis und Denken eröffnet.

Alison Knowles ist Gründungsmitglied der New Yorker Fluxus-Gruppe und seit den inauguralen Fluxuskonzerten von 1962 an deren Aktionen und Ausstellungen beteiligt.

Seit vier Jahrzehnten fordern die Performances, Installationen, Filme, Fotos und Konzepte der Österreicherin VALIE EXPORT den Blick und die Haltung ihrer Betrachter heraus.

Das vorliegende Plakat erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung Juxtapositionen von der Abteilung TransArts in Koopration mit dem Salon für Kunstbuch im 21er Haus.

Das Schaffen von Joan Jonas situiert sich am Schmelzpunkt von Performance, Video, Zeichnung und Installation. Ihr Werk ist ein seit 1968 beständig anwachsender Komplex zu Fragen von Identität, transkulturellem Austausch und narrativen Strategien.

Skulptur im öffentlichen Raum.

In ihrer neuen Serie des „Konsumkonstruktivismus“ bezieht sich Stephanie Senge mit Bildern aus Verpackungen auf Ikonen der konkreten und konstruktivistischen Kunst.

A runner will speed through Tate Britain’s dramatic neo-classical sculpture galleries, again and again, running as if their life depended on it, every day for the next four months. The tightly choreographed live performance Work No. 850 has been specially devised by Martin Creed for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2008 sponsored by Sotheby’s. Work No. 850 centres on a simple idea: that a person will sprint as fast as they can every 30 seconds through the 86 metre gallery at the heart of Tate Britain. Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the gallery is empty.

Until I Gush Forth is a meditation on living with the unknown as a constant companion.

"After the Act" basiert auf der gleichnamigen Vortragsreihe und Ausstellung im MUMOK Wien 2005. After the Act setzt sich mit der Beziehung der Performancekunst zu ihren Dokumentationsformen und ihrer Rezeptionsgeschichte vom einmaligen Ereignis zur 'cultural commodity' (kulturellen Ware) auseinander.