Live Art Denmark

What is live art?

“Live Art is more a way of thinking and doing than a rigid artistic discipline. Much of its cultural value lies in its experiential and exploratory nature – in its approaches to, and negotiation of, ideas, experiences, and things”. (Alex Eisenberg, LADA, London)

photo: Malle Madsen

Live Art Denmark was founded in 2004 with a focus on presenting performance art and other idea-based, interdisciplinary and intergenerational investigations. Live Art Denmark receives operational support from the Danish Art Council as well as the Municipality of Copenhagen. Live Art Denmark has cooperated with over 300 artists and organised 20+ festivals and several hundred events, involving older as well as younger citizens actively. Their partners are municipalities, libraries, companies, art halls, cultural organisations, museums and theatres in Denmark and abroad. Live Art Denmark presents works and practices by other artists, as well as their own, and designs live situations inviting citizens of all ages to participate in the thinking, creation and discussion of art and society. From 2014, they have presented the annual and international “Live Art for Children” festival.

Since 2021, Live Art Denmark also has the venue Friisland; a space for interdisciplinary and performative investigations of ideas. See www.friisland.dk

What is Live Art?

Live art is an umbrella term for various live and experimental practices, such as performance art, body art, experimental theatre and more. Some investigations may include an audience as collaborators.

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Board: Mette Garfield, Matthias Borello, Helene Nyborg, Camilla Sort, Bradley Allen, Thomas Martinsen. 

All events in a kind of overview: tidslinie24