![]() ![]() ![]() This holds the potential to be an important step in the history of British live art, but in its current portrait, it’s a much more fragile and problematic institutional statement that seems to have chosen to deliberately omit any engagement with this growing infrastructure. ![]() This year, however, is the first in which a major institution- Tate Modern- is opening its doors and dedicating part of its remit to the collection and showcasing of live art. The British cultural landscape is no novice to live art institutions such as the Live Art Development Agency have been creating and developing an infrastructure to support, preserve and engage with this ever-changing cultural cross-section in addition, producing organisations from Artsadmin to Arnolfini, festivals such as Spill or In Between Time, nomadic organisations such as Forest Fringe, have grown over the years, and serve as important players in the growing infrastructure of this landscape. PSI functions as a dedicated venue for performance and live art, whilst MOMA and Guggenheim have dedicated themselves to the exhibition of live art since the early nineties. Performa, a bi-annual of ‘performance visual art’, is an institutional engagement with a particular infrastructure of live art. In Hudson, New York, Marina Abramovic is developing The Institute for Long Durational Performance Arts, a laboratory dedicated to the preservation, teaching and research of performance art. ![]()
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