ART- JACKING Debate
Wednesday 7th October 2009
Greestone Building, Lindum Hill, Lincoln
Speakers:
Hugh Dichmont (a-n / Tether)
Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency)
Ana Benlloch (a.a.s)
Lawrence Bradby (Townley and Bradby)
Chaired by:
Laura Eldret (Collecting Live Art)
‘Live art asks us what it means to be here, now’*
When Live art is presented in a public environment to an unsuspecting audience, does it alienate or empower the people and places it seeks to engage?
* Live Art UK Vision Paper
This event was supported by Lincoln University
Art jacking provided an opportunity to actively discuss with a live audience the role of live art in public spaces, on the eve of the Lincoln Art Programme launching a new programme of live art activity. Art Jacking saw a debate that opens ideas and questions that look at the nature, role and experience of art that is alive and how audience respond to art and its varied formats.
Art Jacking saw various invited speakers that ascend from a variety artistic backgrounds and consequently bring varied opinions and experiences on the role of live art. Ranging from Lois Keidan, director of the Live Art Development Agency championing live arts ability to pursue new ideas and experiences, to Hugh Dichmont’s proclaimed embarrassment and humiliating feelings when being caught up in a situation that requires him to participate in live art activities. The debate’s speakers worked around a structure that based their arguments on the ideas relating to live art alienating its audiences in a negative manner or empowering them positively. Discussing subjects from activist induced events to live art in low engagement areas and the effect it has on its audience, the debate rather than develop firm answers to the role of live art, opened up ideas and subjects to its audience in an effect to enhance the profile of live art through collaborative dialogue.
