Reading list:

Roland Barthes – The Death of The Author
http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/death_authorbarthes.pdf

Peggy Phelan – Ontology of Performance – last chapter in book Unmarked

Erika Fischer-Lichte – The Transformative Power of Performance, A New Aesthetics

Susan Leigh Foster – Choreographing Empathy

James Loxley – Performativity

Judith Butler – Gender Trouble; Bodies that Matter; Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

• first chapter of Notes goes back to Gender Trouble and rewrites some points very clearly, slightly easier to read could be good introduction to Gender Trouble

Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality

Beatriz Preciado (also known as Paul B Preciado) – Testo Junkie

J L Austin – How To Do Things With Words?

Paolo Virno – A Grammar of The Multitude

Guy Debord – Society of The Spectacle

Byung-Chul Han – The Burnout Society; The Transparency Society

Srećko Horvat – The Radicality of Love

Anne Bogart – And Then, You Act

Jonathan Burrows – A Choreographer’s Handbook

Ali Smith – Artful

Italo Calvino – If On A Winter Night’s A Traveller; Six Memos For The Next Millennium

Jeanette Winterson – Written on the Body; Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own

Jorge Luis Borges – The Library of Babel [short story]

Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore

Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita

William Gibson – Neuromancer

• The Matrix Trilogy stems from this work + documentary

Samuel R. Delany – Babel-17

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – Sensing, Feeling, and Action

Antonio Damasio – The Feeling of What Happens

Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

Steve Silberman – Neurotribes

Watching list:

[name of feature][directed by]

Hedwig and The Angry Inch – John Cameron Mitchell

Shortbus – John Cameron Mitchell

The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Jim Sharman

Angels in America – written by Tony Kushner / HBO mini-series (2003)

We Were Here (documentary) – David Weissman

Grey Gardens – Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer (1975)

Big Fish – Tim Burton

Wristcutters: A Love Story – Goran Dukic

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Milos Forman

the Wachowski Sisters – Sense8; The Matrix Trilogy

Die Klage Der Kaiserine – Pina Bausch – LINK

Turtle Dreams – Meredith Monk – LINK

Live at Montreux, 1976 – Nina Simone – LINK

No Maps For These Territories – William Gibson – LINK

[documentary]

A Theory of Everything – Emily Levine, TED talk – LINK

My Stroke of Insight – Jill Bolte Taylor, TED talk – LINK