How do we live in an endangered world? Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy and Triage Live Art Collective

This article examines the political possibilities for an aesthetic disruption of urban space and time. Locating the discussion within debates about the neoliberal city, selected art-works from Fierce live art festival in Birmingham, England are used in order to examine how, in a specific and localised context, normative spatial patterns and temporal rhythms can be challenged and subverted. The analysis draws on, and contributes to, a sociological account of the centrality of aesthetics to political and social organisation.

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Register: de la realización a la activación

Index revista de arte contemporáneo ◽

10.26807/cav.v0i04.108 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 154-160

Author(s):

José Manuel Ruiz Martín ◽

Cesar Portilla

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Sound Design ◽

Media Performance ◽

Live Art

Este artículo presenta el proceso de realización y activación del proyecto multimedia Register, que aborda la discontinuidad entre la inmediatez orgánica de la vida y el mundo simbólico mediante tecnologías intervenidas. Para ello, se emplearon tecnologías libres y abiertas formadas por dos sistemas interactivos de registro. Con ello, se generó una instalación formada por diferentes ambientes, donde dos artistas se encuentran inmersos en labores de recolección, clasificación y ficción, empleando diversos géneros, lenguajes y medios, como live art, new media performance y sound design, entre otros. El usuario se enfrenta a la construcción técnica manipulada de su propia imagen y a una experiencia estética donde se posiciona como espectador y es material fundamental e involuntario de la obra. Así, Register devela el proceso de construcción de la realidad mediada por imágenes esterotipadas en la cultura contemporánea.

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Is Dearth a Little or a Lot?

Canadian Theatre Review ◽

10.3138/ctr.187.007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 187 ◽

pp. 20-25

Author(s):

Amelia Ehrhardt ◽

Jenn Goodwin ◽

Cathy Gordon

Keyword(s):

The Future ◽

Art Forms ◽

Literary Device ◽

Live Art ◽

Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽

A Performance

In the format of an interpolated Zoom transcript, former SummerWorks Curators Amelia Ehrhardt, Jenn Goodwin, and Cathy Gordon discuss the disciplining and undisciplining of SummerWorks Performance Festival between 2015 and 2019. The authors came to SummerWorks as specific curators of the dance and live-art streams and watched the festival grow from being a theatre-focused festival known to invite other art forms to a performance festival focused on a multidisciplinary perspective. Ehrhardt, Goodwin, and Gordon discuss the festival’s transition and specific works that exemplified their curatorial lenses-Ehrhardt and Goodwin from dance and Gordon from live art. "Is Dearth a Little or a Lot?" reads conversationally with an editorial voice interrogating the transcript, checking facts, or chiming in with context like a pop-up-video-style literary device. The authors question the function and outcome of creating discipline-specific streams for artists, audiences, and the structure of the festival and discuss hopes for the future of an undisciplined festival.

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