Performative Urbanism Lab for Spatial,
Social, and Scenographic Experimentation
feminist performance creation and the city
READING ROOM
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Accompanying the Feminist Performance Creation in the City (FPCC) project has been the development and housing of the FPCC reading room. Initially installed at Concordia’s 4th Space and currently housed at the offices of Imago Theatre, these texts were assembled to stimulate and support the ongoing performance research by offering readily available documentation of exemplary projects and texts related to feminist performance. The reading room remains a critical resource for feminist performance research, providing a bibliographic list to stimulate discussions amongst the project's participants and beyond.
Resource List:
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Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life. Duke University Press, 2017.
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Aperture 225. On Feminism. Bruil & Van de Staaij, Winter 2016.
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Beard, Mary. Women and Power: A Manifesto. S.n., 2017.
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Birch, Anna and Joanne Tompkins. Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics. Place. Practice. Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.
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Butler, Judith. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? Verso, 2009.
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Cardiff, Janet, et al. Janet Cardiff: The Walk Book. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2005.
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Charlebois, Catherine and Paul-André Linteau. Quartiers Disparus. Cardinal, 2014.
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Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History. The Monacelli Press, 2014.
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Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. Methuen, 1984.
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hooks, bell. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. Routledge, 2014.
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Jenainati, Cathia. Feminism: A Graphic Guide. Icon Books, 2019.
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Luxemburg, Rosa, et al. Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World. Ocean Press, 2004.
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Morton, Tom and Ardalan Ziba de Weck. Parades and Processions: Here Comes Everybody. Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co., 2009.
Nottingham Contemporary. Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance (Exhibition Catalogue). Arnolfini, 2019.
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Schneider, Rebecca. The Explicit Body in Performance. Routledge, 1997.
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Sontag, Susan. Notes On Camp. Penguin Classics, 2018.
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Taylor, Diana. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. Duke University Press, 2003.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Norton, 1967.
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FPCC Reading Room in 4th Space, Concordia University, Fall 2019. Image credit: Becca Redden
FPCC Reading Room in 4th Space, Concordia University, Fall 2019. Image credit: Becca Redden
FPCC Reading Room in Imago Theatre Offices, Winter 2021.
Image credit: Micheline Chevrier