As Thinker in Residence Maxx Shurley is working with the Live Art Development Agency to stimulate debate around the meanings of the terms 'Live Art' and 'Cultural Diversity' and researching new curatorial strategies to represent and reflect these issues.
As part of his Thinker in Residence programme, Maxx developed the concept of a project based on Speed Dating which was piloted with a small group of artists in July 2005.
Read his papers The Maxx Experience! and Maxx on Speed Dating! and let him know what you think.
Maxx Shurley is an artist's pseudonym. Under this pseudonym Maxx has been looking at contemporary performance practices and issues of representation. Using a pseudonym has given the artist the opportunity to voice curatorial issues that they are otherwise unable to as an artist. The pseudonym also protects their identity as an artist.
exploring identity and multiculturalism in relation to curatorial practices.
Call for artists based in Switzerland to undertake funded research residencies at LADA.
Read moreUndertake an Artist’s Residency programme with LADA and Canterbury Christ Church University
Read moreexploring issues of art, activism, politics and human rights.
Read moreInviting proposals for two emerging UK-based Live Art producers
Read moreTwo 6 month Study Room residencies for Black scholars and artists
Read moreUndertake a residency exploring Live Art in relation to the experiences of the displaced
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