Contact info
If you need help, please contact Sylvia Roberts, Liaison Librarian for Communication & Contemporary Arts at 778.782.3681 or sroberts@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.
This guide lists selected print and electronic information sources available to SFU faculty, students, and staff. Check the SFU Library Catalogue to find additional materials.
Course reserves
Search for reserves in the Library Catalogue by course number or instructor. Course reserves for Contemporary Arts (prefix CA) can be found by searching Course ID contains CA.
Topic and course guides
FPA 227 -- Dance History Research
New resources
Lists of new Contemporary Arts resources added to the SFU Library are updated on a monthly basis. You can also browse through lists of all resources added to the library within the last week or the last month.
- William Kentridge : waiting for the Sibyl
- Amy Sillman faux pas : Selected writings and drawings
- 'What's going on' : how music shapes the social
- Deep mediations : thinking space in cinema and digital cultures
- Petra Cortright
- Half sound, half philosophy : aesthetics, politics, and history of China's sound art
- Social appearances : a philosophy of display and prestige
- Beholding : situated art and the aesthetics of reception
- Naked screenwriting : twenty-two Oscar-winning screenwriters bare their secrets to writing
- Mehmet & Kazim : kissing cousins
- Dada magazines : the making of a movement
- Contemporary PerforMemory : Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
- Topics on Art and Money
- Stiegler and technics
- The sphinx contemplating Napoleon : global perspectives on contemporary art and difference
- Das arbietende Konzert = The working concert
- Myself and my aims : writings on art and criticism
- In concert : performing musical persona
- Wolfgang Tillmans : today is the first day
- Art, engagement, economy : the working practice of Caroline Woolard
- Post-Horror : Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation
- Language of tomorrow : towards a transcultural visual communication system in a posthuman condition
- Alleviative objects : intersectional entanglement and progressive racism in Caribbean art
- Uncooperative contemporaries : art exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000 = Bu he zuo de gong cun : 2000 nian de Shanghai dang dai yi shu zhan lan
- Dance and authoritarianism : these boots are made for dancing
- Sound communities in the Asia Pacific : music, media, and technology
- Landscape as weapon : cultures of exhaustion and refusal
- Beyond the happening : performance art and the politics of communication
- Pacing
- Asian cinema : a regional view