PerformaRachel Lois Clapham, Rebecca May Marston, and Mary Paterson are supported by Live Art UK's Writing From Live Art and are currently Writing Live Fellows at the Performa 07 Biennial. Look out on this site and on http://07.performaarts.org/performa_live.php for reveiws, opinions, interveiws and general behind the scenes reports on New York's Biennial of Visual Art Performance. In addition, Writing Live: Writers Hub, is the education programme devised and led by myself, Rebecca and Mary to develop and support a community of writers who are engaged specifically with elements of new media, time based work and visual art performance.

....................................................................

WRITING LIVE: WRITERS HUB FEATURED AS PART OF PERFORMA 07, THE SECOND EDITION OF THE BIENNIAL OF NEW VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK CITY OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Building on the success of NOT FOR SALE, the dynamic education series initiatedin 2004 in anticipation of the first PERFORMA biennial in 2005, PERFORMA is pleased to announce WRITING LIVE.

This peer review forum has been specially designed in support
of a new generation of artists, authors, and critics engaged in discussions around prescient issues in performance and new media, and the related task of writing about art and artists whose work encompasses several disciplines at once.

WRITING LIVE will involve an international group of curators, critics and emerging writers,bringing together a unique mix of different voices in a network of critical writing and debate around PERFORMA 07.

Throughout the biennial writers will participate in WRITING LIVE: WRITERS HUB a rolling program of practical writing workshops kicked off with keynote remarks by RoseLee Goldberg and David Levi Strauss (Tues 30, Oct, 11am – 3pm). Writers Hub will also comprise collective peer review platforms (Tues 13 Nov, 12 – 2pm & Tues 20 Nov, 12 – 2pm) designed with a longer-term aim of sustaining conversations around art writing on contemporary performance. A special session will take place at Freemans Restaurant (Nov 9, 1 - 3pm) to coincide with 'Bring Me The Head of…' a sculpture by Serkan Özkaya co-presented by PERFORMA and Freemans. In addition, writers will contribute to PERFORMA07 Writing Live blog by posting entries of reviews, daily round-ups, behind the scenes previews, opinion and interviews with
biennial artists and curators.

See the Writing Live blog at: http://07.performaarts.org/performa_live.php

WRITING LIVE is directed by RoseLee Goldberg and Defne Ayas, and coordinated by
PERFORMA 07 Writing Live Fellows Rachel Lois Clapham, Rebecca May Marston and
Mary Paterson. WRITING LIVE has been planned in collaboration with the SVA Graduate Art Criticism and Writing Programme with in-part sponsorship by Arts Council England.