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Beware Live Art
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Websites

Artsadmin
www.artsadmin.co.uk
London-based organisation that provides a management and information service for artists working in live, performance, time-based and mixed media. The website features news, artist biogs, events listings and details of funding opportunities.

Fluxus
www.fluxus.org
Website of the movement, most active in the 60s and 70s, that blended traditional artistic disciplines and counted the likes of Joseph Beuys and Yoko Ono amongst its major protagonists.

High Performance
www.apionline.org/hp.html
Archive of the LA-based performance art magazine.

Live Art Development Agency
www.thisisliveart.co.uk
This organisation offers a portfolio of resources, professional development schemes and initiatives for the support and development of Live Art.

Live Culture
www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/liveculture
This permanent resource on the Tate Modern website features photographs, text and downloadable film and sound recordings of the performances and debates that took place during 'Live Culture' at the gallery in March 2003.

liveartmagazine.com
www.liveartmagazine.com
This website has downloadable preview PDFs of the magazine, news, reviews and extensive web resources as well as an online discussion forum.

Laurie Anderson
www.laurieanderson.com
The official site of this versatile artist.

Bobby Baker's Daily Life Limited
www.bobbybakersdailylife.com
Official website of the performance artist who turned her back on paint for the expressive possibilities of sugar and cake.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
www.christojeanneclaude.net
Official website of the husband-and-wife team.

Michelle Griffiths
www.michellegriffiths.co.uk
This website features photographs and drawings of past performances and the artist's CV.

Lucy Kimbell
www.lucykimbell.com
Website featuring extensive documentation of the artist's work and preoccupations.

Rokeby – Cyborg Interactive Media Artist
Rokeby.TV can be contacted by email at rokeby@hotmail.com

Shooting Back
http://wearcam.org/shootingback.html
Steve Mann turns the tables on surveillance cameras.

Joshua Sofaer
www.joshuasofaer.com
The artist's homepage featuring articles and extensive documentation of works.

Stelarc
www.stelarc.va.com.au
The work of the Australian-based performance artist whose work 'explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology through human-machine interfaces'.

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Lucy Kimbell
Lucy Kimbell

 

JJ Xi and Cai Yuan: Soldiers
JJ Xi and Cai Yuan: Crawling

 

 
  Books
 
The Artist's Body edited by Tracey War (Phaidon, 2000)

The Artist's Body edited by Tracey War (Phaidon, 2000)
Part of Phaidon's 'Themes and Movements' series, this book is illustrated with over 250 images of these often extreme, highly unconventional artworks from throughout the 20th century.
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High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s by Julian Stallabrass (Verso Books, 1999)

High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s by Julian Stallabrass (Verso Books, 1999)
Stallabrass's critique of the British art scene of the 1990s provides an insight into what contemporary artists are attempting to move away from.
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Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 by Carter Ratcliff (Allworth Press, 2001)

Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 by Carter Ratcliff (Allworth Press, 2001)
How US art progressed beyond the minimalist cube of the 60s gallery.
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Performance: Live Art Since the 60's by Roselee Goldberg (Thames and Hudson, August 2004)

Performance: Live Art Since the 60's by Roselee Goldberg (Thames and Hudson, August 2004)
Laurie Anderson.
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Credits

Produced to accompany The Art Show: Beware Live Art (a World of Wonder production), first screened on Channel 4 in September 2004.

Writer: Liane Jones
Designer: 72 dots
Editor: Peter Millson
Project manager: Red Cinnamon
Resources co-ordinators: Nicole Carman

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