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A Partial History of Live Art

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Agency commemorates two decades of the Live Art Development Agency in London, offering a rich reassessment of Live Art, a genre often defying traditional artistic categories. Featuring almost 50 artists and scholars, this collection presents essays, conversations, provocations, and archival images exploring how Live Art challenges and reshapes social, political, and artistic norms. It delves into the concept of agency, highlighting Live Art's role in fostering new thoughts, actions, and alliances across diverse communities.
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Ideal for students, scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts of contemporary arts, performance studies, and Live Art seeking an in-depth, critical exploration of this boundary-defying art form and its broader social implications.

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Winner of the 2021 Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Edited Collection Prize

Notoriously difficult to define as a genre, Live Art is commonly positioned as a challenge to received artistic, social, and political categories: not theatre, not dance, not visual art, and often wilfully anti-mainstream and anti-establishment. But as it has become increasingly prevalent in international festivals, major art galleries, and university courses, it is ripe for a reassessment.

Including almost 50 contributing artists and scholars, this collection of essays, conversations, provocations, and archival images takes the twentieth anniversary of the founding of one of the sector’s most committed champions, the Live Art Development Agency in London, as an opportunity to consider not only what Live Art has been against, but also what it has been for.

Through the work of this particular ‘Agency’, the book explores the idea of agency more generally: how Live Art has enabled the possibility for new kinds of thoughts, actions, and alliances for diverse individuals and groups.

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"An elegant and beautifully presented mapping of important Live Art themes. The editorial strategy is precise, with a well-curated variety of voices and excellent integration of images." – 2021 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize panel

"Essential reading for those interested in Live Art and the Live Art Development Agency's history. It offers a partial history and a forward-looking proposal on how agency can shape future practices and communities." – Harriet Curtis, New Thea

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783209903

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 April 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Contributors:

Edited by Theron Schmidt

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 223.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Theron Schmidt works internationally as a writer, teacher and performer. He is a founding co-convener of the international Performance Philosophy network, founding co-editor of the journal Performance Philosophy and associate editor of Performance Research. In addition to his academic research, he has written widely about contemporary performance and Live Art for a variety of publications, including magazines and artist books, and also as part of innovative critical writing projects that foster interaction between scholars, artists and publics.