15 Minutes With…Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson

2014 marks the 15th Anniversary of the Live Art Development Agency. To celebrate, we are planning a number of activities across the year, including the “15 Minutes With…” podcast series.

“15 Minutes With…” is a series of short dialogues with some of the exceptional artists and thinkers that LADA has had the pleasure of working with over the last 15 years. Using the lens of the Agency and the occasion of our 15th Anniversary, the dialogues will reflect on how critical some of these shifts have been, not only to Live Art, but to the wider culture of the UK.

#7 Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art

Jen Harvie is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is co-editor of the Theatre& series, author of Staging the UK (2005), co-author of The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (2006) and co-editor of Making Contemporary Theatre (2009). Her edited book The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: The Performance Work of Lois Weaver [working title], a publication dedicated to the work and life of Lois Weaver, is forthcoming in 2015. 

Dominic Johnson is a Lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (2012) and Theatre & the Visual (2012) and the editor of three artists’ monographs, Franko B: Blinded by Love (2006), Manual Vason: Encounters (2007) and Ron Athey: Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey (2013)

Projects and initiatives referred to in the podcast: Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey, The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: The Performance Work of Lois Weaver, Study Room, Study Room Guides, Dear Stranger, I love you: the ethics of community in Rajni Shah Projects’ Glorious Manuel Vason: Exposures and Double Exposures, PSi18, University of Leeds 2012 publishing panel discussion and I see a fake moon rising, Live Art in the public realm downloadable pdf. 

Listen to the entire series of “15 Minutes With…”