Ivor MacAskill

Work with Live Art Denmark
2016 Gendersuarus Salon at Live Art for Børn

Gendersaurus Salon
Ivor brought a T-shirt workshop to our children’s festival, conducted together with Carl Michael Richardt and part of the larger Gendersaurus Rex project. Together with their participants, they explored how and what clothes says about who you are. They discussed questions like: What if you cannot choose for yourselves what your clothes say about you? Some clothing stores have not many options – pink for girls, blue for boys, princesses or pirates, flowers or trucks. But colors are just colors and things are just things. So why should our clothes be allowed to decide who we are?

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About the Artist
Ivor MacAskill is a live artist and theatre-maker based in Glasgow, UK, creating both solo performance work and collaborative projects as artistic director co-creator of The Polar Bears and one half of Cade & MacAskill. His highly original works are entertaining and experimental both in content and form, straddling theatre, live art and visual art. There is a particular focus on creating innovative work for children and their adults in a range of settings and contexts.

Learn more about Ivor on his personal website, and about the Gendersaurus project here.

Om liveart_dk

Liveart.dk was founded in 2004 in Copenhagen to promote the discussion, documentation and development of live art in Denmark. The organisation is equally inspired by the imaginative and entertaining English Live Art tradition as by the theoretical and political German theatre tradition. We have organised 10 large international festivals of Live Art for kids and adults since 2004, and over 40 discussion events, books, video series, symposia and more in the field of live art, performance art, art criticism and documentation. We collaborate with theatres, music venues, art museums and festivals in Denmark and internationally.