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February 10, 2005

Performance and Live Art

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Seeking a New Vocabulary and Practice

"Live Art as a practice draws freely on the widest range of references, influences and disciplines and is therefore hybrid or interdisciplinary by nature: it challenges both single art-form practice and received ways of seeing, thinking and doing. Embracing the broadest range of innovative interdisciplinary activities (deriving from theatre, dance, music, fine art, cinema and video, new technologies and popular performance arts) it characteristically finds alternatives to the assumptions of any one of these disciplines, a process that forms its over-arching research imperative. Given its multi-faceted origins its performances only rarely derive from prepared text but more frequently finds inspiration through close observation, new technologies, social intervention, music, visual image, politics and by challenging alternatives including mixed and colliding media, site specific work and time-based events as well as 'actor/role' created performance seeking to offer a new vocabulary and practice to the performing arts."

Performance & Live Art Group Members at The Nottingham Trent University: Frank Abbott, Dr Johannes Birringer, Peter Bowcott, Andrew Brown, Matt Hawthorn, Dr Adrian Heathfield, Richard House, Dr Sophia Lycouris, Nikki Milican, Thomas Mulready, Professor Barry Smith, Stelarc.

Posted by jo at February 10, 2005 08:58 AM

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