Advocacy
The Live Art Development Agency works on a range of strategies to further the dissemination and awareness of Live Art practices in the UK and internationally, including profile-raising projects, presentations, and reports.
The Agency's profile-raising projects include the cdrom Wigs of Wonderment (2002) produced in collaboration with the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive (AAVAA) and motiroti to address the gap in the documentation of work by artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, Joshua Sofaer's The Performance Pack (2004) produced in collaboration with Tate to highlight the relationship between fine art and performance, and Programme Notes: Case Studies for Locating Experimental Theatre (2007), a publication commissioned by Arts Council England.
The Agency regularly presents talks at international festivals and events, such as Panorama Festival, Brazil and Anti Festival, Finland, about Live Art and the kinds of cultural strategies that have been developed in the UK to support new ways of working. The Agency also works in partnerships with artists and institutions on public debates advocating Live Art practices and approaches, including the SPILL Symposium in London for Pacitti Company's SPILL Festival (2007), and Trans:actions, a series of talks on commerce and the culture of Performance for ARCO 08 in Madrid.
The Agency curates Live Art film programmes to illustrate a diversity of thematics and issues for exhibition or theatrical screenings within contexts ranging from the International Performance Festival, in Cali, Colombia, and the About Time season at Project Arts Centre, Dublin to the Church Ale Festival at Home Suffolk, and Video Fronteras in Spain.
The Agency also writes reports on the challenges and possibilities of Live Art and strategies for its future development including Focus Live Art for Arts Council England and the Live Art Vision Paper for Live Art UK.
