About 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.

Gwendoline Robin

Gwendoline Robin

Gwendoline Robin Works for Live Art Denmark 2013 2 performances for Hitparaden 1. Performance 1 Exposing her body to fire and explosives is probably the part of Gwendoline’s work that she is most known for. The image below, photographed by Malle Madsen, was taken exactly in the most explosive moment of Gwendoline’s first performance at our festival Hitparaden 1. Standing on a metal staircase outside the festival venue, covered head to toe in a diy safety suit, her body is briefly lit up by a series of explosions. In a second image, fire quickly and menacingly creeps up the stairs along a lit fuse, until it again reaches the performer’s […]

Gob Squad (DE/UK)

Gob Squad (DE/UK)

Gob Squad Works for Live Art Denmark 2009 “Gob Squad’s Kitchen” at Berliner Luft 4 Gob Squad’s Kitchen The performance takes one of Andy Warhol’s famous art films, Kitchen, as its starting point. Nothing much happens in the original film yet it somehow encapsulates the hedonistic experimental energy of the swinging sixties. Learning lines was considered ‘old fashioned’ so the actors just hang around. Sex, drugs and wild parties are referred to but nothing in particular takes place. Gob Squad set themselves the task of reconstructing Kitchen and other Warhol films, like Eat, Sleep and Screen Test. How can they get it just right? How do they know if they’re […]

Frans Jacobi (DK)

Frans Jacobi (DK)

Frans Jacobi Works for Live Art Denmark 2011 “Silent Stand” at Samtalekøkkenet. 2014 “Goldman” at Hitparaden 2. Silent Stand For Samtalekøkkenet in April 2011, Frans directed and performed in the group performance “Silent Stand” from his performance series “The Aesthetics of Resistance”. A rather shabby mummy and several other figures, including a group of predominantly white bellydancers, silently move through a number of tableaux, while a disembodied female voice connects the images they produce to events of the political uprising going on at the time in Egypt. Introducing Goldman In this solo-performance, Frans Jacobi becomes ‘Goldman’, a figure that obviously is meant to symbolize the elusive powerstructures of global economy. […]

Florian Feigl (DE)

Florian Feigl (DE)

Florian Feigl Works with Live Art Danmark 2004 “Encyclopedia of Performance Art” at Hitparaden 1, with Wagner Feigl Festspiele 2011 “Prologue to 300” at Samtalekøkkenet 2011 “Rambo Revisionist” at Samtalekøkkenet, with Jörn Burmester Wium 2014 “Teotwawki” at Hitparaden 2, with Jörn Burmester Wium and Mark Boombastik 2017 “Jeg skal baare lige…” for Live Art for Børn S/H 2022 “Prologue to 300”, two times three performances for Friisland Live #5 and Åben Festival. Encyclopedia of Performance Art With their performance-lecture “The Encyclopaedia of Performance Art” Wagner-Feigl-Forschung (Florian Feigl and Otmar Wagner) sketch out a complete and all encompassing catalogue of the world. In this live-action-research they guide us through the fields […]

D Tiberio (US)

D Tiberio (US)

D Tiberio Works for Live Art Danmark2013, concert at Hitparaden 1 DJ, producer and muscian D Tiberio from Los Angeles played a set at our festival Hitparaden 1. Here are some of his newer tracks for your listening pleasure: About the ArtistD Tiberio is a skateboarder, producer and artist and from the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. His music has been released on Brownswood Recordings and primarily on Timetable Records, where Tiberio also contributes artwork and creative direction. Find him on Soundcloud here.

Ellen Friis (DK)

Ellen Friis (DK)

Ellen Friis Works with Live Art Danmark Ellen is one of the founders and directors of Live Art Danmark and takes part in developing and producing all projects of our company. Her personal artistic contributions to our various programs include: 2007 “The Evidence” at Berliner Luft 3 2012 “Six Saints: Lene Vestergaard Hau” at Samtalekøkken at Kunsthal Nikolaj 2013 “Six Saints: Tycho Brahe and Six Saints: H.C.Ørsted” at Hitparaden 1 2014 “Still-life (after Wilhelm Bendz)” for Now and Again 2017 “Ida Bruns Attituder” at Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen The Evidence At Berliner Luft 3 Ellen presented the first version of her performance “The Evidence”. Inspired by a sentence she read in […]

Eric Andersen (DK)

Eric Andersen (DK)

Eric Andersen Works for Live Art Danmark2013 Organ Concert for Samtalekøkken at Nikolaj Kunsthall Fluxus Organ ConcertFluxus legend Eric Andersen produces an impressive drony wall of sound  on the large church organ at Nikolaj Kunsthall for our Samtalekøkken in April 2013. The performance was part of his own retrospective solo-exhibition in the former church in the medieval center of Copenhagen, where Eric performed in one of the first Fluxus concerts in Denmark ever during Festum Fluxorum in 1962.   About the ArtistEric Andersen has been a pioneer in the field of performance art, installation and InterMedia and was one of the founders of the Fluxus network in 1962. Since 1960 […]

Norpol (DK/SE)

Norpol (DK/SE)

NORPOL Works with Live Art Danmark 2013 “Teheran Mon Amour” at Hitparaden 1 2015 “Dette er ikke en forestilling” at Live Art for Børn 2 Teheran Mon Amour Norpol performed their take of Margarite Duras’ famous “Hiroshima Mon Amour” at Hitparaden 1, as a performance about the situation of homosexual men in Iran today. It opens with the screening of a re-make of one of the greatest love stories on film: ”Hiroshima, mon amour”. But instead of a French woman and a Japanese man, two men – one Scandinavian, one Persian – are cast in the leading roles. Just like in the original, we never learn how they met, as […]

Essi Kausalainen (FIN)

Essi Kausalainen (FIN)

Essi Kausalainen Works with Live Art Danmark 2012 “I and other Letters” at Samtalekøkken 2015 “Carnation & Quartz” at Live Art for Kids in Kristiansstad2021 “I and other letters”, performance recipe for Playing Up2021 Performance opera “B” at Friisland I and other LettersFor Samtalekøkkenet September 2012, Essi presented “I and other Letters”. She begins by measuring and occupying the rather large, white space by rolling slowly all around it in an office chair. Later, she arranges some flowers in a vase on a table, which she then drags diagonally across the floor. Finally, she jumps onto the office chair, this time lying stretched out across the arm rests, planking and speedily […]

Eva Meyer-Keller (DE)

Eva Meyer-Keller (DE)

Eva Meyer-Keller Works with Live Art Danmark 2007 “Death is Certain” at Berliner Luft 3 2018 “Sounds Like Catastrophes” at Live Art for Børn (with Sybille Müller) 2019 “Sounds Like Catastrophes”, recipe for Performanceopskrifter (with Sybille Müller) 2022 “Sounds Like Catastrophes” workshop in Trondheim/Norway. Death is Certain Have you ever wondered how you would murder a cherry? In this performance that we showed at Berliner Luft 3, German artist Eva Meyer-Keller comes up with just about every possible way. Cherries are smashed, popped, electrocuted, burned and  hanged, as the performer, dressed in a white labcoat,  matter-of-factly tries them all out in this amusing and slightly scary performance. Sounds Like Catastrophes […]