Stephen Barber Livres

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Berlin's complex history of conflict and transformation creates a unique urban landscape that intertwines with art and film. Stephen Barber examines the relationship between the city's surfaces and the artistic expressions they inspire, spanning from early cinema to modern digital art. Through a series of visually driven explorations, he reveals how the city's walls reflect its memories, obsessions, and scars. This insightful cultural history offers a fresh perspective on Berlin, making it essential for those interested in urban transformation and the city's rich artistic heritage.

1.The Origins Of The Vienna Action Group --2.Otto Muehl --3.Gunter Brus --4.Hermann Nitsch --5.Rudolf Schwarzkogler --6.Art Crimes And Exile --7.The Films Of The Vienna Action Group --8.Kurtkren --9.Ernst Schmidt Jr --10.Performance/Film --11.6/64 Mama Und Papa --12.Wiener Spaziergang --13.Bodybuilding --14.Kunst Und Revolution --15.Zerreissprobe --16.Blood Orgies And Art-Pornography --17.Sex And The Art Of Destruction --18.The Detritus Of The Vienna Action Group And Contemporary Art.

Set in a future England ravaged by corporate and digital collapse, a hallucinatory conflict ignites between the North and South, drawing inspiration from 1970s punk rock and infamous figures like Jimmy Savile and Peter Sutcliffe. This narrative weaves a contemporary myth through text and imagery, delving into a culture teetering on the edge of disintegration. The story captures the intensity of a struggle so profound that only remnants of its memory endure, reflecting on a society facing its darkest moments.

Focusing on the cultural and geographical extremes of Europe, this book delves into the urban landscapes shaped by historical and visual narratives in the post-Berlin Wall era. It examines the tension between the overwhelming influence of visual media and the remnants of historical culture, particularly in "breakdown zones" at urban fringes. The exploration includes a journey from Albania to Turkey and along the Mediterranean, while also reflecting on Berlin's evolving fabric and the multicultural dynamics of Paris's outer suburbs.

"The work of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) remains a constant source of seminal inspiration, astonishment and provocation across contemporary visual art, film, performance, choreography, digital media, and critical theory, throughout the entire world. In Artaud: Terminal Curses, Stephen Barber explores the newly-revealed set of 406 notebooks which Artaud used in the final years of his life in Paris, after his release from a decade of asylum-incarceration, to carry through his projects for corporeal transformation and social refusal. Artaud's notebooks are designed as an autonomous work in their own right, through which he distils his preeminent preoccupations: the envisioning of a new, organ-less human anatomy (crucial for Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical work), his conception of the time and space of gesture, his raw fury against society and all of its manifestations, his visualization of a ruined and supplanted natural and urban world, his intensive confrontation between text and image, and his reflections on the fluctuating parameters of life and death. Those preoccupations retrospectively illuminate Artaud's earlier Surrealist work and theories of film and performance. With 24 pages of illustrations, this eye-opening and original book will be of major significance for all readers interested in the extreme zones of art, literature and media, as well as providing critical new revelations for those engaged with Artaud's work." -- Provided by publisher

A lost city in the North of England during the momentous winter of 1978 and the accelerating collapse of the UK's final socialist government–the so-called 'Winter of Discontent', and the final winter before the onset of the Thatcher era, which will imminently raze or transform everything and everybody in that city. For that last-gasp moment, young figures engulf themselves with obsession in the punk-rock cacophonies and accompanying riots that erupt in decrepit hotel ballrooms and subterranean nightclubs, within an excoriated cityscape of ruined industrial buildings whose ghosts now appear more living than the living. A notorious serial-killer is aimlessly pursued by the police while terrorising the bewildered inhabitants of a city controlled by corrupt corporate cartels, while nightly violent outbursts of streetgang warfare transect the city. An immense insane asylum on the urban peripheries, into which that city's malfunctioned, haunted figures are emptied-out, overlooks everything while offering its own aberrant space of liberation for its inhabitants. Time is disintegrating, revealing the detrita and abysses of the past embedded in that city. A few of its young figures gradually discover that only white noise and desire in their outlandish forms can overturn that frozen discontent, but they need to act before the winter is over. Written in an innovative, disturbing and captivating style which meshes raw corporeality, urban insurgency and catastrophic recent history–and deploying that recent history to pierce and illuminate the contemporary moment– White Noise Ballrooms positions itself directly in the immediacy of contemporary writing. “Stephen Barber is one of our very best writers, and White Noise Ballrooms is his very best book, to date. An addictive evocation of times and places, then a poetic excavation of those times and places; times and places which are at the heart of Stephen Barber’s work, and at the heart of so many of our lives; quite simply, a brilliant book.”— David Peace

A biography that cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always profoundly entangled with his work. It emphasises those elements that made his life particularly inspirational in the 1960s and which continue to make it vital for readers.

His Theatre of Cruelty altered the course of modern theatre, and his experiments with the Surrealist movement have proved inspirational throughout Europe and America,But Artaud's life was one of terrible failure and confrontation, an exploration of the extremes of agony and joy.