PLAYING UP: A Live Art Game for Kids and Adults 

Playing Up is an art game for the whole family. Over 60 historical performances are described on individual cards, each explaining how to perform them. Please select a card and follow the instructions! Each card is displayed alongside objects to help recreate the work with friends or family members.

We exhibited the 36 cards of the original version in Copenhagen Contemporary 2019. In 2020, we produced a special Nordic version or „Expansion Pack“ with 12 Nordic performance artists. Click here for more info.

They were exhibited in the Faroe Islands 2021, Kraka Plads in Copenhagen (again with CC), Harstad, Norwegen (Artic Arts Festival), 2022.  Aarhus Festuge (2023), Horsens Teaterfestival (2024), Sau Paulo (2025 (tbc)). 

In 2021, we also developed a „Gender Edition“ with Fundus Forschungstheater a.o. and tested it in Copenhagen Contemporary, November 2021.

Paint your ear green, lie on top of cars, dance with animals, try bagism, make a ketchup fight, follow a random passerby through the city, remote control your parents, search for miracles, walk through Copenhagen with a map of Paris, invent an alter ego of the opposite gender, deconstruct electrical devices, and build what-happens-next-machines!

PLAYING UP is produced and published in a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency (LADA, UK), FUNDUS THEATER / Theatre of Research (Germany), Tate Early Years and Family Programme (UK), Best Biennial (Sweden) and Live Art UK, with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut London. PLAYING UP forms part of LADA’s contribution to the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) supported by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

If you are interested in presenting Playing Up we recomend that you read this information.