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Reckless Sleepers. Photographer: Tom Hall
Live Art

Spanning the extremes of performance culture, live art is not a singular art form but an umbrella term for live performance practices that are rooted in a diversity of disciplines and discourses involving the body, space and time.

Disrupting borders, breaking rules, defying traditions, resisting definitions, asking questions and activating audiences, live art offers different approaches to the nature and the experience of art and has revealed itself as one of the most potent and provocative areas of contemporary culture. Live art is a research engine where the limits of art and ideas are tested and new possibilities imagined.

Whether challenging the orthodoxies of fine art practice, exploring the limits of theatricality, appropriating the idioms of mass culture, pushing at the boundaries of choreographic conventions or exploring the performance potential of cyberspaces, live art practices now occupy all kinds of mediums across multiple disciplines, contexts and spaces.

Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency
Reckless Sleepers. Photographer: Tom Hall.
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What work does the British Council do in this area?
A large market for conceptual live work has developed over recent years especially in Europe and Australia. Because of its experimental and challenging nature this work can often be controversial so we work closely with interested overseas partners and their audiences to identify work from the UK very carefully. Live art spans drama, dance, film, technology, music and visual arts and involves a huge range of audience experiences and modes of presentation. Thus venues and facilities are often a huge consideration. Certain live art is often more appropriately covered by our visual arts department.

Our work in this field ranges enormously. From the cabaret-style performances about identity that Ursula Martinez has taken all over the world, to Franko B’s ‘body-as-canvas’ pieces that had audiences crying in Yugoslavia. And from the perennially popular Forced Entertainment, to collaborations between Moti Roti and New York’s The Builders Association exploring culture and new technology.
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