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.

Andrés Galeano (ES)

Andrés Galeano (ES)

Andrés Galeano Work for Live Art Danmark 2012 “Watching the Sun”, Samtalekøkken at Hofteatret. Watching the Sun For his performance, Andrés used the setting of the historical court theatre at Christiansborg castle in the centre of Copenhagen for a meditation about the sun and, in extention, about light. The performance begins with a series of slides, projected on the ceiling of the theatre, alternating between artworks and landscapes. In the completely dark theatre, he plays with the visibility of his own body using a series of different lamps and viewing devices. Finally, after the lights come back up, he unrolls the poster of a sunny beach and completes the image […]

Andreas Liebmann (CH)

Andreas Liebmann (CH)

Andreas Liebmann Work for Live Art Danmark 2012 “We – a Solo” at Samtalekøkkenet. We – a Solo Andreas participated in Samtalekøkken in February 2012. He presented his performance lecture “We – a Solo” as a work in progress. The piece investigates the relationship between society and the individual, audience and solo performer, and features Andreas in shorts, playing the cello and text projections. About the Artist Andreas Liebmann studied at the Acting Academy in Zurich from 1993 to 1997. He has been teaching at the Universities of the arts Zurich, Berlin and Leipzig. Since 2015 he is teaching at The Danish National School of Performing Arts in the areas […]

Anaïs Héraud (FR)

Anaïs Héraud (FR)

Anaïs Héraud Works for Live Art Danmark 2013 “Dawdle” at Hitparaden 1 DawdleIn English, to “dawdle” means to move aimlessly. The pronunciation is somewhat similar to the french word “dodeliner”, to nod one’s head slowly from one side to the other, like when following the rhythm of a song. Anaïs made a series of performances all titled “Dawdle”. Each is a performative mind-map of desire. In the the captivatingly slow development of the Copenhagen edition, her body dialogues with materials like cinder blocks and dawdling dildos, and in the end she buries love songs in soil. Anaïs explains: “For this performance, I’m working with erotic objects of mass production. I […]

Andre Stitt (UK)

Andre Stitt (UK)

Andre Stitt Work for Live Art Danmark2013 “Amnesia” at Hitparaden 1 Amnesia The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.”Schopenhauer “There’ll be people dying in this town who have never fucking died before”Stitt Using spoken word, text, sound and projected image Andre Stitt reflected on the place of performance art in his life. From his childhood and the civil conflict in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to a life spent travelling and making art around the world, Stitt considered how memory and recall, allegory, communal narrative, conflict, codes and myth inform the present. Using a microphone and projected images, he created a monologue interspersed […]

Albin Werle (DK)

Albin Werle (DK)

Albin Werle Works with Live Art Danmark 2013 “Sleeping in a crowded exhibition space” at Alt_Cph 13 Sleeping in a crowded exhibition space Albin made this performance as part of an ongoing research project he named dream archaeology. For it, he explored ways of planning his dreams in advance, and he often extracted ideas for drawings and sculptures from them afterwards. As part of our performance program for the alternative art fair Alt_Cph 13, Albin installed a bed in an exhibition booth and exhibited himself sleeping and dreaming up new art in the bustling exhibition hall for an entire day. The video below also contains an audience talk with Albin […]

Aaron Williamson (UK)

Aaron Williamson (UK)

Aaron Williamson Works with Live Art Danmark2013 “Activating the Wasteland” for Alt_CPH 13 performance program2014 “Institutional Classics” and “Demonstrating the World” at Hitparaden 22023 “Hijacked Songs” at Life Art for Children 20232024 “Let Your Hair Down” at Managing Discomfort Festival, and “Outlandish” at Friisland. Activating the WastelandAaron Williamson collaborated with Live Art Danmark for the first time as part of the performance program for Alt_CPH 13. He showed a site specific, durational piece, “Activating the Wasteland”, that explored an abandoned site on the outskirts of Copenhagen, as a frontier of the city, soon to disappear as it was to be developed with a high rise apartment block. Institutional ClassicsHe returned […]