Live Art Unpacked at Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva

Live Art Unpacked, Geneva

5 – 15 March 2008

 

Developed by La Ribot and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève in collaboration with Live Art Development Agency, London as part of La Ribot's Rite of Spring.

 

Tickets and booking details www.centre.ch

Full programme details: www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk

 

Led by UK based artists and organisers, Live Art Unpacked, Geneva is a series of events about and around Live Art in the UK: what it is and what it can do.  Unpicking ideas and practices, and sharing a diversity of approaches, Live Art Unpacked, Geneva features:

 

a performance, video installation, lecture, and practice based workshop by Gary Stevens;

 

a performance of The Performance Pack by Joshua Sofaer;

 

an Everything You Wanted to Know About Live Art But Were Afraid to Ask day of information and advice for younger artists, featuring the Live Art Development Agency, Lois Weaver, Joshua Sofaer, La Ribot, Yan Duyvendak, Oskar Gomez Mata, and Andrea Saemann Bale;

 

Live Art Development Agency screenings of documentation by Oreet Ashery, Franko B, Blast Theory, Anne Bean, Robin Deacon, Yara El-Sherbini, Jem Finer and Ansuman Biswas, Forced Entertainment, FrenchMottershead, Gob Squad, Silke Mansholt, Howard Matthew, Kira O'Reilly, Rajni Shah, Joshua Sofaer, Station House Opera, Grace Surman, The Vacuum Cleaner Aaron Williamson, and selected images from Manuel Vason's Encounters.   

 

Rite of Spring is a performance project presenting La Ribot and Live Art Development Agency, born from discussions held during La Ribot's residency with the Centre d'Art Contemporain (2007-2009). This project provides a unique opportunity to promote critical understanding of performance art today (its theory, criticism, practice, reception, and funding), through a special programme created specifically for young practitioners, art professionals as well as being accessible to the public.

Katya Garcia Anton – Director of Centre D'Art Contemporain Geneve