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Not to be confused with Live Art.
Live Art is an art form where an artist makes art in front of an audience. The term came into usage in the United Kingdom in the middle of the 1980s. The Live Art Development Agency in London describes Live Art as follows:
- "Live Art should not be understood as a description of an artform but as a strategy to ‘include' a diversity of practices and artists that might otherwise find themselves ‘excluded' from all kinds of policy and provision and all kinds of curatorial contexts and critical debates." LADA
Essentially it refers to fields of artistic practice that are time-based but do not fall into those already strong genres of theatre, dance and performance art. See also happenings and performance art.
List of Notable Live Artists
- Alan Abel
- Marina Abramovic
- Vito Acconci
- damali ayo
- Laurie Anderson
- Ron Athey
- Franko B
- Wladyslaw Kazmierczak
- Joseph Beuys
- Nicole Blackman
- Black Sun Productions
- Mark Bloch
- Blue Man Group
- George Brecht
- Alexander Brener
- Stuart Brisley
- Robert Delford Brown
- Chris Burden
- Nao Bustamante
- (early period) Cabaret Voltaire
- Paul Couillard
- COUM Transmissions (later Throbbing Gristle)
- Vaginal Davis
- Danielle Dax
- Danny Devos
- John Duncan
- Scott Erickson
- EXIT (members Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher later formed Crass)
- Deej Fabyc
- Karen Finley
- Diamanda Galás
- Cheri Gaulke
- Gilbert and George
- Jack Goldstein
- Guillermo Gomez-Peña
- gyrl grip
- Tehching Hsieh
Chuck Hues
- Juha
- Miranda July
- Istvan Kantor / Monty Cantsin
- Allan Kaprow
- Helene Kvint
- Tatiana Katara
- Suzanne Lacy
- Gordon Matta-Clark
- Paul McCarthy
- Justin McKeown
- Linda Montano
- Charlotte Moorman
- Mr. Pacman
- Otto Muehl
- Hermann Nitsch
- Yoko Ono
- Nam June Paik
- Richard Piegza
- Planningtorock
- Michael Portnoy
- Vahid Rahbani
- Tara Rebele
- Rachel Rosenthal
- Kira O' Reilly
- SARROGIT
- Carolee Schneemann
- David Sherry
- Joey Skaggs
- Litsa Spathi
- Annie Sprinkle
- Stelarc
- Andre Stitt
- Jonathon Keats
- Survival Research Laboratories
- Echo Transgression
- www.transpireproject.com
- Mai Ueda
- David Wojnarowicz
- Wolf Vostell
- Shu Yang
- Yang Zhichao
- The World Famous Bushman
- Genesis P-Orridge
- Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi
- Jess Dobkin
- Leigh Bowery
- Theatralia
Live Art Events
The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland
External links
For further information and links visit:
- The Live Art Development Agency
- Live Art Archives at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, University of Bristol
- National Review of Live Art Reviews Database hosted by AHDS Performing Arts
- See also the free educational resources: Live Art Archive and Digital Performance Archive hosted by AHDS Performing Arts
- Chelsea Theatre: dedicated performance art venue - London, UK
