LIVE ART

Editorial, Winter 2024

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Balfour Reparations (2024-2044): Imagining Counter Palestinian Futures by Confronting Histories of Erasure

An audio piece drawn from Farah Saleh’s performance Balfour Reparations, which imagines counterfutures for Palestine.

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When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble

An examination of artist Miranda Whall’s When Earth Speaks: A Dirty Ensemble, which reimagines an alternative relationship with environmental data.

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Radical Live Art in China: A Dialogue

In this dialogue, Last Minute Live Arts’s Gao Shuyi and Bill Aitchison explore what it means to be radical in making performance art in China and the UK.

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SOAK Live Art: How Art Thrives in the Fertile Margins

Kerry Priest reflects on the platform SOAK Live Art, situated in Plymouth, Devon, southwest UK

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Starting From Scratch: Nocturnal Scratch Nights

Violet Vincent McLean reflects on Nocturnal, a live art scratch night in Glasgow co-founded with Corvis Oleander in 2019.

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“I’ve been looking for things that last”

An account by Marcus Bell of the 25th anniversary of Home Live Art, where five queer artists and their collaborators reflected on live art as a practice of gathering, collision and transformation.

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The Live Art Listener in the Retrospective Present

In this evocative article with accompanying audio piece, Nicol Parkinson explores the use of sound recording as a documentary technology for live art.

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