Henrik Vestergaard and Ellen Friis (Liveart.dk)

Liveart.dk was founded in 2004 in Copenhagen to promote the discussion, documentationand development of live art in Denmark. We have organized 13 large international festivals of Live Art for kids and adults since 2004, and over 40 discussion events, books, video series, symposia and more in the field of live art, performance art, art criticism and documentation. We collaborate with theatres, music venues, art museums and festivals in Denmark and internationally. We receive operational funding from the Danish Art Council.

Henrik Vestergaard was Zarathustras Onkels between 2004 and 2014 and he has also been a dramaturg for, among others, Verk Produksjioner (NO) and Erik Pold (DK), been a manager for Hotel Pro Forma, created soundtracks and performed in several Giessen (Applied Science of Theatre) related performance projects in Berlin. Henrik has an M.A. in Theatre Science.

Ellen Friis studied “interdisciplinary art strategies for the public space” at Kunsthochschule Berlin, 2005, based on a B.A. in stage design and performance art. She has created several performances, video installations and performance concepts that have been presented in many contexts and spaces in England, Germany, Poland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Michigan and more.

She is an independent artist focused on the exploration of visual and corporeal language mainly through performance art but also by using video, live installations, printmaking, and drawing. Her performance practice is drawn into reaching for the intangible, continuously attracted by the potential of elements, actions, and languages that clash. She studied her BA in Fine Arts at La Esmeralda in Mexico, an MFA in Printmaking by the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and is pursuing an MA in Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theater Academy Helsinki, both belonging to the University of the Arts, Helsinki. Her work has been shown internationally in exhibitions and festivals in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Spain, Cyprus, England, Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, and China.

Her practice includes self-organized events as an effort to contextualize and expand views of Latin America in Finland. In 2017 she founded PROYECTO ANALCO as a continuation of this process. Currently, she lives and works in Finland and Mexico. She has received working grants by Finnish Cultural Foundation (2018) and from Kone Foundation (2016).

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She is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher/curator/educator working with live action, human interaction, video, film, photo, drawing, and writing. Exploring within diverse media, while the outward results of her practice manifest in various forms, performance is the invariable core of her research. Her time-based work includes performance for stage and for the camera, infiltrating actions in public spaces, and one-on-one encounters in intimate contexts. Investing in a performative presence and consciousness within multiple spaces/times, she continuously underscores the complex aspects of “transaction” and the possibility for transformation. Considered a pioneer of transactional practices in Quebec, Stanton has presented exhibitions, performances, interventions, and films/videos in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan, and Mexico. Her first book Impure, Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice and Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal (conundrum press, 2001), co-authored with Vincent Tinguely, chronicled a vibrant artistic movement via interviews with over 75 artists. Her second book, The 7th Sense, co-authored with the TouVA collective (Sylvie Tourangeau, Anne Bérubé, and Stanton), draws upon a profound exploration of “the performative” in performance art (SAGAMIE édition d’art, 2017).

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She is a Korean-Danish artist and activist operating at the boundaries of performance, poetry, film, music, noise and installation art. Her main themes investigate disruptions and desorientation as she unfolds the aesthetics of the expressions and narrations that are embedded in-between the body and the spoken word.

Yong Sun Gullach investigates the essence of the loss of an understanding of a self and the strategies to overcome what is not there. The human nature’s attempt to replace the self by de-and reconstructing an identity is unfold in the complex co-creation of the body and the body’s surroundings. A loss of that unfolds in a many layers always changing always present.

By letting body and space unfolds it’s complex dimensions the investigation of the co-creation between artist and spectator starts – traces creates an impact on the other person’s memories and an understanding of the dialogue is being presented. By evoking basic feelings in the other – a portal for communication opens in her art where words, sounds and visuals exchange. This deconstructed loss of the artists self opens for an exchange constructing a narration and thereby the performers body in the room.

Gullach’s performance-investigations adds a textuality of flesh and time. The artists body in space and time bends what cannot be captured but only absorbed, in a single unique space continuum for each spectator.

Side by side is the row of performance actions presented.

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She is a performance and video artist with a background in experimental theatre and other time-based arts. Graduating in 2002 with a M.A in Fine Arts, her work has focused predominantly on “feminine” subjectivity, dissolution of the ego and the notion of pre-oedipal nostalgia in response to a patriarchal and undesirable reality. She is at present in a transitional stage, shifting towards the conceptualization of larger-scale projects exploring the complex interchange between performance art and the cinematic language. Marta Moreno has lived, produced and engaged in artistic works in Spain, UK, Turkey, India, The Netherlands, Indonesia, Singapore, The Philippines and exhibited internationally. Currently nomadic, she is working on personal art projects, researching for her PhD thesis “Art as an Experience of Dissolution of the Self” and directing The Unifiedfield, an independent artist-run organization focusing on the experimental aspects of sound, video and performance art. 
Photo by Jemima Yong, Performance "I Will Miss You" at Future of Imagination International Performance Art Festival (Singapore, 2015)

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She is an artist, curator, medical doctor based in Istanbul and Stockholm. She works mainly on performance art, visual arts, installation, writing and objects. Her art studies the relationship between the physical, psychological, historical field of the life, of the nature, of the city and the human. The power, identity, belonging, gender, space, ideology, human mind, body and soul feature as her research subjects. Derin is the founder/creative director of Istanbul Performance Art, Stockholm Performance Art and 24 Hours Art, chief curator of Open Performance Space. 

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Jessie Kleemann was born in Upernavik in Northern Greenland and she is trained as a lithographic artist. From 1978 to 1979, she was a student at the Tuukkaq theatre in Fjaltring in northern Jutland, from 1984 to 1991 director of the School of Arts in Nuuk, during which period she took leave in 1989 for staging the play Asanninneq naliitsoq, based on Märta Tikkanen's Århundradets kärlekssaga. Between 1991 and 1993, she was the coordinator of the exhibition project Arts from the Arctic as part of the UNESCO program for the decade of indigenous people. She has participated in Nordic and international exhibitions as well as in many one-person exhibitions, and as a poet she has represented Greenland at Nordic and international literary events. Her first independent poetry collection was Taallat. Digte. Poems, 1997.
She is especially known for her provocative performance art in which she has developed a form of ‘body art’ based on ancient masque performances. Like the words and enactments in different performance videos, she uses the artist's body as a living canvas, often incorporating it into her exhibitions.
In 2012 her a compilation about her performance practice came out in the artistbook QIVITTOQ in both languages Greenlandic and English.

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Stein Henningsen

Born in 1962, lives and works in Svalbard. Stein Henningsen is an established artist in the field of performance art and have presented his work at different biennials, festivals and events in France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, America, Canada, China and of course Norway, since 2001.His work comments on contemporary political, social, financial or climate issues, in a manner that often can provoke and disturb the viewer. Henningsen grew up in the harsh island of Svalbard, close to the North Pole, where one needs to bring a gun to go shopping because of the polar bears - A direct connection to nature, but also to life and death, that has surely influenced him in his artistic work. His first major work was produced in 2004, when he toured all over Europe presenting the performance and installation, Crosses of Liberty, a small cemetery with life-size crosses reproduced from the American cemetery in Normandy. It was a direct contrast with how George W Bush used the fallen heroes of WWII to justify the war in Iraq. Henningsen has since continued to make works that deals with contemporary political issues. As the artists states, “contemporary society and the world we are living in is created on the values and choices of our mothers and fathers and earlier generations. We are all today creating the future of our children and of generations to come! Our choices run our lives... Still we are probably more affected by the decisions we do not make.” 
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visual artist, performance artist 1941, Helsinki
Lives in Tampere, Finland. Her practice as an artist since 1969, while working as an art teacher of comprehensive and upper secondary school until 2001. Since 1990 concentrates mainly on performance art. 2002 starts working with video. Since 2011 works also with photographs. 2004 received The State Prize for Visual Art.
She has made solo and group exhibitions, performances, live performance- and video installations in Finland and other
countries.
Her work – whether performance, photo or video - deals mostly with life seen through a woman’s eyes. In spite of their ordinary and everyday premises, the course of actions has an unpredicted, perhaps dreamlike logic and viewers are free to interpretations. She is trying to find the universal level within personal experiences by showing small incidents, subtle shades, and relations, which influence us even if unnoticed.

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He is a choreographer, performer, and practitioner in the fields of dance, performance, and
somatic practice. With the focus on movement and embodiment as mediums for performers, audience,
and communities. Originally from Israel, Barkan has lived in several countries as an artist-migrant.
Background: BA in Dance and Psychology. Body Weather Laboratory. Feldenkrais practitioner.

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She is a Colombian artist, based in Paipa, Boyacá. Through her works, she explores the everyday life in the mountains of her country, using the power of the feminity to construct her images and actions. Originally educated as a painter in the school of arts and crafts of Paipa, she had explored in the field of the creation of handicrafts and other utilitarian objects.

In the performance, she had questioned her feminity through traditional actions of the gender roles.

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