Unrehearsed Future (S5) #4 Live Art: Transgressions and Transformations
Live Art makes space for experimental processes, practices, bodies and identities that are perhaps excluded from conventional contexts. More than being a specific form or discipline, live art is a way of thinking about art, what it can do and how it can be experienced. It can be in a gallery, a theatre, a city square, a cafe, a forest – anywhere that allows for interaction with an audience. At a recent Unrehearsed Futures conversation, six pioneering voices from South African live art space – Qondiswa James, Gavin Krastin, Alan Parker, Kopano Morago, Tandile Mbatshe and Jay Pather – reflected on the transgressive function of the one-person performance in distinguishing Live Art from other forms of live performance, their practices of breaking the form and the pedagogical possibilities of Live Art and more.
“[Live Art] continuously humbles me because having grown up in the theatre world where everything is about control – exit, entrances – you truly have to relinquish into the unpredictability, adaptability, the multiculturalism and plura-versity of Live Art,” shares Gavin.
STAY TUNED! We will be publishing a long-form article about the talk and the ideas/themes that emerged during the session on our blog in the coming weeks.
