The Live Art Almanac

Published June 2008
Edited by Daniel Brine
Published by the Live Art Development Agency
132 pages
24 cm x 17 cm
ISBN 978 0 954604066
£5.00

Available to buy from Unbound.

The Live Art Almanac is a collection of ‘found’ writing about and around Live Art. The material for the Live Art Almanac was gathered through recommendations. In early 2006 an open call announced:

What articles have you read, what emails did you receive or forward to a friend, what blogs have you visited, what texts crossed your path? Did they engage you, amuse you, or make you rethink Live Art? If it caught your eye and had something interesting to say then we want to know about it.

Over a hundred articles, reviews and interviews were submitted from sources that ranged from mainstream newspapers articles to text messages and from these recommendations The Live Art Almanac was compiled.

The Live Art Almanac brings together texts that are representative of the most engaging, provocative and thoughtful writing about Live Art and the cultural landscape in which it is set.

Contributors to The Live Art Almanac are: Tim Atack, Madeleine Bunting, Barbara Campbell, Simon Casson, Brian Catling, Rachel Lois Clapham, Helen Cole, Stephen Duncombe, Tim Etchells, Ed Casear, David Gale, Lyn Gardner, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Daniel Gosling, Leslie Hill, John Jordan, Nick Kimberley, Adam E Mendelsohn, Alex Needham, Sally O’Reilly, Mary Paterson, Will Pollard, Chris Riding, Nick Ridout, Ian Saville, Theron Schmidt, Rebecca Schneider, Rajni Shah, Kate Tyndall, Mark Wilshire and John Wyver.

An archive of the details of the call for submissions is availble on this site.

The Live Art Almanac is available to buy from Unbound.