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26/3/2003

Live Culture

Tate Modern, London

Live Culture
27 - 30 March 2003
Turbine Hall, Level 4 and Starr Auditorium

A programme of Live Art performances, debates and presentations curated by the Live Art Development Agency and Adrian Heathfield

As part of Tate's commitment to supporting diverse forms of contemporary artistic practice, Tate Modern is pleased to collaborate with the Live Art Development Agency on Live Culture. This initiative places contemporary performance against the context of the gallery's display of the collection for the first time.

Live Culture provides an opportunity to engage with the shifting nature of Live Art practice in relation to the visual arts, by bringing together distinguished artists, theorists and curators to examine the expansion of performance art across broader artistic and social arenas, and its role in relation to cultural change. Contributors include Marina Abramovic, Ron Athey, Franko B, Carol Becker, Oron Catts, Catherine David, Forced Entertainment, Tim Etchells, Coco Fusco, RoseLee Goldberg, Matthew Goulish, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Lin Hixson, Amelia Jones, John Jordan, Keith Khan, Yu Yeon Kim, Oleg Kulik, Alastair MacLennan, Hayley Newman, Peggy Phelan, Andrew Quick, Alan Read, La Ribot, and Henry M Sayre.

A resurgence of interest in experiential and performative practices within the visual arts and the status of 'liveness' as a prime object and value in the media-dense environment of contemporary culture, make Live Culture a timely and critical intervention into current discourses. Live Culture is a framework to appraise key shifts in performance art over the last few decades: its spread out of the gallery and into other spaces and forms; its increasingly hybrid nature and disruption of global and cultural borders; its use of risk and extremity in confronting the art and politics of the body; its impact on social activism and political intervention; its interface with the digital world; and its role as a site for expressions of new identities beyond the distinctions of ethnicity, gender and sexuality.

Live Culture sets out to highlight the ways in which the term Live Art has come to represent an array of contemporary practices that employ performance as a generative force to destroy pretence, to break apart traditions of representation, and to open different kinds of engagement with meaning.

Live Culture is curated and produced by Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine of the Live Art Development Agency and Adrian Heathfield.

The Live Art Development Agency is the leading development organisation for Live Art in London. The Agency works in partnership with practitioners, organisations and institutions on curatorial initiatives; develops strategies for increasing popular and critical awareness; provides practical information and advice; and offers opportunities for dialogue, debate, research and training. www.liveartlondon.demon.co.uk

Adrian Heathfield is one of the leading performance academics and writers in Britain. He is the editor of Small Acts: Performance, The Millennium and the Marking of Time and co-editor of On Memory, an issue of Performance Research, and of the box publication Shattered Anatomies: Traces of the Body in Performance.

Live Culture will be followed in 2004 by a major publication produced in collaboration with Tate Publishing. The publication will contain essays from key writers in the field, visual documentation of influential contemporary performance and works contained within the Live Culture event.

In the image: Oleg Kulik, 'Armadillo for your Show'.

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