Live Art Almanac, Volume 3 – Call Out

The Live Art Development Agency has put a call out for writing related to live art or radical performance practices for their Live Art Almanac Volume 3. Deadline is January 31, 2012 – get yer skates on..

See below;

We are seeking recommendations for material to include in The Live Art Almanac Volume 3. What articles or reviews have you read, what new stories have you spotted, what emails did you receive or forward to a friend, what blogs have you visited, what texts crossed your path? Did they engage you, provoke you, amuse you, or make you rethink Live Art and radical performance? If it caught your eye and had something interesting to say then we want to know about it.

We welcome all kinds of submissions for The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 – from more traditional forms such as journal essays, newspaper reviews, transcribed interviews, symposium papers, public lectures or book chapters, to digital forms such as blog entries, Facebook pages and Twitter conversations, to even less conventional forms of “publishing” such as emails, diary entries, and letters. The submission must be engaging, provocative, and thoughtful writing on and around the contemporary cultural landscape in which Live Art practice sits and must shed light on the various debates and ideas in circulation within that landscape.

For more information please download a copy of the call out PDF here;
Live Art Almanac Call Vol 3

Live Art Almanac – Volume 2

Australia’s David Williams and Jason Maling star in the latest edition of the Live Art Almanac (Volume 2). Read Jason here or purchase the whole kit and kaboodle here;

Live Art Almanac

Threshold

Three things have happened in the last month that I think will forward the discussion around Live Art in the country and region…

The first is Visible City, I won’t go into it as I was intimately involved in the project and it really is for others to speak or write about in more depth once they get their heads around it. The archive of the work is here. Over the next few weeks I will be uploading the audio from the two Salons which took place as part of the project – the first around the topic of Live Art in Australia the second around criticality and rigour in Live Art. These discussions were recorded by Sally Ann McIntyre (NZ) and are a great resource for all.

The second thing is that Jason Maling’s piece Inbetweenness has been selected to appear in Live Art Almanac Volume 2, this is a great coup for Jason and also for lala which is where it was ‘published’. It is great to see some local content in that UK publication. We will let you know when it finally rolls off the presses!

The third is that after a year of going it alone I have decided to open out the editorial team of lala to other voices, more varied practices and to other cities. So I would like to welcome Sarah Rodigari. Jen Jamieson and Amy Spiers to lala and look forward to their contributions and broadening of the dialogue and criticality of the blog. I will give links and biogs to them in a small moment…stay tuned.

Exciting times!

Martyn Coutts.