FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LIVE 2013

8th EDITION OF VANCOUVER’S INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART CELEBRATION25+ ARTISTS | 6 DAYS | SEPT 18–23

LIVE International Performance Art Biennale announces an invasion of artists from here and around the world. LIVE 2013 is the eighth biennial edition of Vancouver’s renowned international performance art celebration dedicated to commissioning and presenting new visual art performances in Canada.

LIVE 2013 heats up over 6 consecutive nights from September 18 to 23, when artists from five continents will transform the city of Vancouver into a global platform for celebrating live art, with a diverse program of performances, public interventions, workshop, talks and festivities. Complementing this program, talented local artists from our own community will be presenting new, cutting-edge performance works.

“LIVE is on the vanguard of an exponentially growing myriad of performance art festivals and opportunities taking place throughout the world. While international in scope, performance art is grounded in fostering relationship with local community and identity. What is our attraction to Live Art? Perhaps we crave that which we can neither anticipate or expect. We have to be there. Then. There. In this place. At this time. With these people. Then it vanishes. Only traces remain. Which are just not the same as experience.” – Randy Gledhill, Director LIVE Biennale

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

To celebrate SWARM, LIVE hosts a late nite pre-festival benefit and dance party with Sweaty Bones on September 12, 2013 at 11PM at VIVO Media Arts, 1965 Main St.

LIVE is pleased to initiate an innovative new pedagogical program led by renowned German artist and educator Jürgen Fritz, co-founder of Black Market International, International Performance Association, and the Festival Platform for Young Performance Artists. From September 14 to 17, 2013, Fritz will be facilitating ‘Exploring Performance Art’, an intensive four-day pre-festival workshop from 10AM – 5PM, hosted by VIVO Media Arts.