Live Art documents

This section of our site contains links to downloadable documents relating to Focus Live Art and the Live Art UK Vision Paper. Both documents provide an excellent overview of Live Art and the infrastructures that support it in the UK.

Focus Live Art
Focus Live Art was a series of meetings held in September 2001 bringing together key artists, promoters and funders in each English region to address the challenges facing policy and provision for Live Art and to consider solutions for a more sustainable future. Download pdfs: Focus Live Art Report, summary of identified challenges for Live Art, minutes of the Birmingham meeting, minutes of the Bristol meeting, and minutes of the Manchester meeting.

Further information about Focus Live Art can be found at www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk.

Live Art UK Vision Paper
The Live Art UK Vision Paper was prepared as a discussion paper for a major meeting of Live Art UK members and other organisations and individuals interested in Live Art that took place in Liverpool in October 2004. Download pdf: Live Art UK Vision Paper.

Live Art UK Annual Networking Meeting 2007
The Live Art UK Annual Networking Meeting 2007 took place at the Great Eastern Hotel in London and was attended by over 50 delegates from around the UK. Mary Paterson, a witer participating in the Critical Writing Initiative attended and has prepared summary of the day's activity. Download pdf: Mary Paterson's Live Art UK Annual Networking Meeting report.