The play / film / song / book / artwork that changed my life was...
As we explore The Art of Change, we asked you to share the art that changed your life - here is what you said...
Read
Has a book ever changed your point of view on something - or changed you?
Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1974) - John Ashbery
Cat’s Eye (1988) - Margaret Atwood
The Poetics of Space (1957) - Gaston Bachelard
The Fire Next Time (1963) - James Baldwin
Ways of Seeing (1972) - John Berger
Arcades Project (1982) - Walter Benjamin
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983) - Vilém Flusser
Travels With Myself and Another (1978) - Martha Gellhorn
Dictee (1982) - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Siddartha (1922) - Hermann Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) - Milan Kundera
To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) - Harper Lee
Cien Años de Soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) - García Márquez
Dance, Dance, Dance (1988) - Haruki Murakami
Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and
Interviews (2003) - Bruce Nauman
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) - George Orwell
The Last Children of Schewenborn (1983) - Gudrun Pausewang
The Bell Jar (1963) - Sylvia Plath
Orientalism (1978) - Edward Said
The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
La Nausée (1938) - Jean Paul Sartre
Just Kids (2010) - Patti Smith
On Longing (1984) - Susan Stewart
Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews (1973) - Art Taylor
To The Lighthouse (1927) - Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own (1929) - Virginia Woolf
Watch
Which film or play still has an impact on you today?
Waiting for Godot (1953) - Samuel Beckett
The Piano (1993) - Jane Campion
Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth
Twilight: Los Angeles (1992) - Anna Deavere Smith
Strange Fish (1993) - DV8
The Saint Plays (1993) - Erik Ehn
Alphaville (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) - Jack Gold
Notorious (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock
A Doll’s House (1879) - Henrik Ibsen
Tristan & Yseult (2005) - Kneehigh Theatre Company
Angels in America (1991) - Tony Kushner
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
The Encounter (2016) - Simon McBurney / Complicite
Closer (1997) - Patrick Marber
Sans Soleil (2002) - Chris Marker
Barefoot Gen (1983) - Mori Masaki
Hunger (2008) - Steve McQueen
Death of a Salesman (1949) - Arthur Miller
Written on Skin - Katie Mitchell (2013)
The Caretaker (1960) - Harold Pinter
True West - Sam Shepard (1994)
The Real Thing (1982) - Tom Stoppard
Chungking Express (1995) - Wong Kar Wai
In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar Wai
The Colour Purple (1982) - Alice Walker
Ballyturk (2014) - Enda Walsh
Körper (2016) - Sasha Waltz
Wings of Desire (1987) - Wim Wenders
Our Town (1938) - Thornton Wilder
Listen
Which song or album is always on your playlist?
Moon Safari (1998) - Air
Hounds of Love (1985) - Kate Bush
A Love Supreme (1965) - John Coltrane
Operation Doomsday (1999) - MF DOOM
What’s Going On (1971) - Marvin Gaye
To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar
Glósóli (2015) - Sigur Rós
Artwork
Which artist or artwork represents the 'art of change' for you?
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) - Francis Bacon
Colonel T.E. Lawrence (1919) - Augustus John OM
Video Quartet (2002) - Christian Marclay
City Drawings (1997) - Kathy Prendergast
Space Program: Mars (2012) - Tom Sachs
Eye/Body: 36 Transformative Actions (1963) - Carolee Schneemann
The play / film / song / book / artwork that changed my life was...
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Explore The Art of Change, our 2018 season explores how artists respond to, reflect and potentially effect change in the social and political landscape.
