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Documenting live
A unique publication and DVD resource reflecting the work of key UK-based artists working in the 1990s and 2000s, and placing live art practices that are informed by questions of cultural identity within critical and historical frameworks, is now available.
Documenting Live was developed by Live Art Development Agency, curator David A Bailey and Project Director Rajni Shah in response to the challenges of documenting Live Art, and particularly influential work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds in the UK. Recognised as a practice that operates in between, across, and at the edges of visual art, theatre, dance, poetry, digital media and the moving image, live art is often an interdisciplinary, itinerant and ephemeral area of contemporary arts practice. There are many challenges in documentation, archiving and contextualisation of such work that can lead to the exclusion of significant artists and approaches from wider cultural discourses and art histories. This is particularly the case for artists concerned with questions of identity, difference and complexities of ‘cultural diversity’, whose experiences and practices are often sidelined within UK’s cultural histories. In response, Documenting Live creates an archival and critical document for anyone interested in the field of work that maps a history, marks a territory and looks to the future. Included are David A Bailey’s mapping essay...
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