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.

Myriam Laplante (CA/IT)

Myriam Laplante Work for Live Art Danmark 2015 “The Phenomenology of Doubt” and group performance with Black Market International at Kulstof 15 The Phenomenology of Doubt Myriam performs in front of a blackboard with a piece of chalk attached to its center with a piece of string. She writes the word “doubt” in the highest point the chalk will reach, followed by “art” and “universe” in the lower left and right segments, roughly where the 4 and 8 would be on the face of a clock. She then completes the circle until it reads “the phenomenology of doubt in the post-material universe of contemporary performance art through the study of […]

Jessie Kleemann (GL)

Jessie Kleemann Works for Live Art Danmark 2015 “Orsoq III, Subarctic Sushi!” at Kulstof 15 2016 Collaboration with Christian Etongo, COLAB Copenhagen 2021 “Orsoq III, Subarctic Sushi!”, participatory version for Playing Up!, Nordic version. Orsoq III, Subarctic Sushi! In her performance “Orsoq III, subarctic sushi!”, Jessie Kleemann, dressed in a revealing black dress and barefooted, works with a signature material of her home island, Greenland. She approaches a pile of blubber, laid out on an otherwise empty, black stage, and proceeds to handle the greasy material, balancing it on her hands, taking it into her mouth, letting it slide down her cleavage, cutting it with a special knife, and moving […]

Nanna Lysholt Hansen (DK)

Nanna Lysholt Hansen Works for Live Art Danmark 2015 Performance “Dear Daughter/Motherboard Theories of Evolution (w/Braidotti, Plant et aliae) #6” and video “Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway) #5” at Kulstof 15. Dear Daughter At our 2015 festival, Kulstof 15, Nanna showed two parts of her “Dear Daughter” series, one a live performance, the other one a video. The video is the chronologically earlier contribution. In “Dear Daughter/Organic Cyborg Stories (After Donna Haraway) #5” we see an unchanging image of a human body, clad in a morphsuit, sitting cross legged in front of a mikrophone on a stand in a sharply outlined blue light. The figure has a large […]

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt (DK)

Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt Work for Live Art Danmark2014 “Zoo” for Now and Again Zoo“Zoo” is an original video which Cecilie created for our series of video performances Now and Again. On screen, we witness Cecilie performing in a living-room, exhibiting the vain need to be remembered. Over two hours in front of the video camera, a time-based portrait unfolds, and an improvised personae emerges from the live situation. With the material edited down to twenty minutes, the performed subjectivity is shaped and consolidated into a contradictory and tamed portrait of the artist as a young woman. Editing and sound are explicitly commenting the act of auto-portraiture as the performance is […]

Joachim Hamou (FR)

Joachim Hamou Work for Live Art Danmark 2014 Video “Frame By Frame” for Now and Again Frame By Frame Joachim Hamou contributed the site-specific video “Frame by Frame” to Now and Again, our series of performance for video. The full title of the work was “Frame by frame – death by drowning – step by step – doubt by numbers – in your analysis” and it was exhibited on an iPad parallel to a photo exhibition by the Photographic Center [On the Go] at Nikolaj Kunsthal. Joachim used video footage found on the Internet of a rat running on an escalator that moves in the opposite direction. The rat can’t […]

Erik Pold (DK)

Erik Pold Works for Live Art Danmark 2009 “Gob Squad’s Kitchen” with Gob Squad at Berliner Luft 4 2014 “Teheran Mon Amour” with Norpol at Hitparaden 1 2014 “9 TO 5 IN 7,5” for Now and Again Gob Squad’s Kitchen Erik is a regular guest performer in the productions of Berlin based art collective Gob Squad. We brought them to Denmark for our festival Berliner Luft 4, where Erik performed in “Gob Squad’s Kitchen”, a journey back to 1965 in an attempt to remake Andy Warhol’s Kitchen. But as none of the performers has actually seen the original, they enlist audience members in a quest for the authentic. Teheran Mon Amour […]

Daniel Norback (SE/DK)

Daniel Norback Works with Live Art Danmark 2013: “Teheran Mon Amour” at Hitparaden 1, with Norpol 2015: “Dette er ikke en forestilling”, Live Art for Børn at Museum Arken/Ishøj, with Norpol 2016: Samtalekøkken-Moderator at Live Art for Børn in Skåne 2016: Premiere 50 farlige ting at Live Art for Børn Nordkraft, touring ever since, with more than 130 performances in all of Denmark! 50 Farlige Ting Daniel Norback performs 50 farlige ting, our smash hit for kids who like to take risks, together with Henrik Vestergaard since 2016. More than 130 performances to date, and still going strong. Samtalekøkken for Kids In 2015, Daniel moderated four special editions of our […]

Marcio Carvalho (PT)

Márcio Carvalho Works with Live Art Danmark 2014 “False Memories” at Live Art for Børn 1 2016 Co-Curator of COLAB Copenhagen False Memories Márcio performed “False Memories” at the first Live Art for Børn festival. Working with a polaroid camera, various plastic toys and pre-produced cardboard speech bubbles, he went through a series of critical questions and answers about adverstising, toys and video games with his young audience. The rackety soundtrack, playing loudly in the background,  was composed of the voice overs of TV commercials for children’s toys and the beeps and explosions of early video games. COLAB Copenhagen In the Spring of 2016, Márcio co-curated COLAB Copenhagen with Live […]

Mammalian Diving Reflex (CA)

Mammalian Diving Reflex Works with Live Art Danmark 2014 “Haircuts by Children” at Live Art for Children 1 2018 “Eat the Street” at Live Art for Children 5 Haircuts by Children We presented the Canadian performance group Mammalian Diving Reflex for the first time in 2014 at out first Live Art for Børn festival in Copenhagen. They brought one of their signature pieces, Haircuts by Children. The piece does exactly what the title promises: a group of children is given a crash course in hairdressing and run a salon where they offer free haircuts to members of the public. In the lovingly designed shop, adults (and other children) tested their […]

Rainham Sheds (UK)

Rainham Sheds Works for Live Art Danmark 2014 Concert at Hitparaden 2 Rainham Sheds The Rainham Sheds (not to be confused with these Rainham Sheds), at that time consisting of Kate Mahony, Jenna Finch and Rachel Dowle, played a radical set of post punk songs at our second Hitparaden festival. The band members also presented individual performances and played in the backing band for the fantastic “Disabled Avantgarde” Rainham Sheds The Rainham Sheds are a Post-punk all female maximum art-core, art-school group. They sing about theorists, Art Stars, shit jobs, mega-banter, sex with furniture and reminding themselves that he’s not her dad. Listen to the Rainham Sheds on Soundcloud. And […]