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.

Søren Thilo Funder (DK)

Søren Thilo Funder Work for Live Art Denmark 2012 “Rites of Passage (Keep alive)” for Samtalekøkken 2013 “First Citizen” video for the Turku Biennial Rites of Passage (Keep alive) At Samtalekøkkenet in September 2012, Søren presented “Rites of Passage (Keep alive)”. A man in formal evening dress slowly descends a set of chairs, and carefully unfolds a white sheet of fabric, which he holds out in front of him. On the sheet, a video is projected which shows a variety of documentary footage of public situations of mourning. Crowds of crying people in the street, watching a hearse go by, audience and players of sports events standing in silence, heads […]

Søren Dahlgaard (DK)

Søren Dahlgaard Work for Live Art Danmark 2011 “Dough Sculptures” at Samtalekøkken Dough Sculptures For the edition of Samtalekøkken held in May 2011, we invited Søren Dahlgaard who performed with two of his dough sculptures, working live in a performance with them for the first time, as he pointed out in an introductory speech. He also explained that one was a slow sculpture, while the other one was fast. It could be argued that it was not so much Søren himself who performed, as he acted more as a trainer and moderator for his dough sculptures. The large globs of dough were produced with different amounts of yeast and thus […]

Søren Berner (CH/DK)

Søren Berner Works for Live Art Danmark 2012:”Barbie” for Samtalekøkken 2014 Two interactive performances for Live Art for Børn 1 2014 “Freenactment” at Samtalekøkken at Madhouse Helsinki 2018 “Still Live” at Live Art for Børn 5 Barbie In this intense performance for Samtalekøkken in October 2012, Søren had a group of football players lead the audience in a warm up session, held an interactive photo session, let audience members paint his portait with fire extinguishers, auctioned of the finished work and finally even led the discussion about the meaning of the performance himself. Pop Up Besøg For the Live Art for Børn festival in 2014, Søren worked with a large […]

Stuart Lynch (AU/DK)

Stuart Lynch Works for Live Art Danmark2011 Performance at Samtalekøkken2013 “Lynch Concert” at Hitparaden 1 Performance at SamtalekøkkenFor one of our Samtalekøkken events in 2011, Stuart performed a monologue piece, in which he impersonates a Texan minister, the devil, and baby Jesus, at times several of them at once. Lynch ConcertStuart brought his “Lynch Concert” to our first Hitparaden festival. In this virtuoso showcase, he amazes his audience by demonstrating some incredible things that can be done with the human voice. In earlier collaborations with the makers of Live Art Denmark, Stuart Lynch took part in the celebration of Antonin Artaud in 1995 and the performance program “Looking for Johnny” […]

Stine Marie Jacobsen (DK)

Stine Marie Jacobsen Works for Live Art Danmark2011 “The Entity” at Samtalekøkken, with Ib Kjeldsmark2013 “Idle No More“, video for the performance program of the Turku Biennal2014 “der den die die”, video for Now and Again2019/20 “Law Shifters” at Live Art for Børn 6 and “Transgeneratoren Festival”, Hamburg/Germany The EntityFor her performance “The Entity” at Samtalekøkken in April 2011, Stine Marie hid in the attic of our venue Warehouse 9, out of sight for the audience. The only one allowed to see her performance was the designer Ib Kjeldsmark. He created live drawings of his experience which were shown to the audience. The only other signs of Stine Marie’s presence […]

Sophie Dupont (DK)

Sophie Dupont Works for Live Art Danmark 2011 Duo performance with Mathias Kryger at Samtalekøkken 2015 “Heavy  Light” at Kulstof 15 2019 “Marking Breath”, performance recipe for “Playing Up” at Copenhagen Contemporary Duo Performance The performance Sophie presented at Samtalekøkken was developed in a collective process with Mathias Kryger. Togetyher they created costumes of found and cheaply bought materials and developed the series of silent physical situations the performancce consists of. The poses they assumed were reminiscent of early Avantgarde dance and Dada, of contemporary dance and theatre. Donning red wigs that obscure their faces, they moved slowly in the sparse light of a video projection that showed the same […]

Random People (UK/DE)

Random People Work for Live Art Danmark 2012 Presentation of the group at Salon Saloon Presentation Daniel Ladnar and Esther Pilkington from Random People presented some of their performative works in our living room. About the Artists random people was founded by Daniel Ladnar and Esther Pilkington in Aberystwyth in 2007 as a platform for collaborative projects in the field of performance. Currently, random people are based in Hamburg. In 2013, they co-founded irreality.tv to produce interventionist and participatory television projects. For many years and many projects, they have also worked closely with the collective Geheimagentur. Collaboration for them is not only a mode of production, but always also an […]

Sofie Vollquarz Lebech (DK)

Sofie Vollquarz Lebech Work for Live Art Danmark 2013 “(In)visibility” at Samtalekøkken (In)visibility We invited Sofie to perform at our Samtalekøkken at Kunsthal Nikolaj. Her investigation of (in)visibility began with her sitting for a long while at a table in front of a laptop, her face and body obscure, in the shadows. Behind her, phrases were projected on to a large  screen. They added up to a meditation on invisibility, identity and presence. We read in total silence. The last words that lit up on the screen were: Light, costume, movement, emotion, voice. So theatre is introduced, as Sofie finally gets up. She shines a floodlight into the high ceiling […]