ARE WE LIVE?
“live performance is just one more production of a given text”
(Auslander, P. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, 1999)

Live art is very important to my practice. At the same time I am aware that my work is never truly live due to the elements that inform it.

What I try to achieve in my work is a respect for this flux between a live/not live situation and ensure a participant experiences this. There will always be one element, no matter how scripted, controlled or mediated a situation is, that creates an underlying novel and volatile liveness for the participants involved.

It is in search of this element of liveness that I have turned to theatre and its accompanying methods and structures to inform my encounters.

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“By creating a space for encounter, the performative live event engineers a unique moment in that it allows the crossing of the boundaries that film and media are bound by”.

(Gob Squad Reader, 2010)