Theatre Collection The Live Art Archives
The Live Art Archives include the Record of Live Art Practice, the National Review of Live Art Archive,
the Digital Performance Archive, the Arts Council England Live Art and Performance Archive,
the Franko B Archive, Performance magazine Archive, the David Hughes Live Art Archive, the Alastair Snow Archive,
the greenroom Archive and the Bodies in Flight Archive. In addition, the Archives hold the original
tapes from the queerupnorth Video Archive, together with DVD copies for viewing.
The Archives' holdings also contain a number of smaller
collections of Live Art related material in various formats, such as full sets of Hybrid, Primary Sources, and
LiveArt magazine, and a complete set of DVDs by the artist
Reza Abdoh.
Additional Live Art resources include
Liveartwork DVDs, a complete set of the 9 DVDS for Bobby Baker's Daily Life series, and books to support research into Live Art, which
are held in the Theatre Collection library.
NEWS - The National Review of Live Art Video Archive is now
available to view ONLINE
NEWS - The Theatre Collection has acquired the Hull Time Based Arts Archive. A new webpage with further details of
the collection will be coming soon.
NEWS - The Theatre Collection has acquired the greenroom Archive after the sad closure of the venue in 2011.Further details of
the collection are available on the
webpage.
NEWS - The Live Art Archives are currently working with JISC Digital Media to digitise the
material held in the Digital Performance Archive (DPA) and hope to make it available online in due course.
As the original catalogue is no longer searchable via the AHDS, lists of the DPA holdings are available on
the DPA web page.
The Live Art Archives are responsible for the administration of the
LIVEART,
FESTIVAL
and ARTNET
JISCmail discussion lists.
The Live Art Archives web pages are included in the
Live Art Collection,
which is part of the UK Web Archive, a corpus of websites selected
by leading UK institutions for their historical, social and cultural significance in the UK.
The Live Art Collection is maintained by the British Library in collaboration
with the Live Art Development Agency, London.
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How to Search the Live Art Archives
The Live Art Archives holdings are currently being catalogued onto the Theatre Collection database
and in due course will be searchable through the main search facility.
At the moment, the most up-to-date catalogue of all our Live Art material is held
and maintained in the Theatre Collection and can be searched by a member of the Theatre Collection
team on request. Some typical database search requests have been included on the Live Art Archives' RLAP web page to help researchers
during this interim cataloguing period, and NRLA yearly searches are included on the Live Art Archives'
NRLA Archive web page. Users can also search
the online NRLA Video Archive catalogue up to 2006.
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The Live Art Archives are available for viewing and research by appointment. For further information on
the Archives and/or to arrange a visit please contact:
Bex Carrington, Keeper: Live Art Archives
Tel: 0117 33 15186 or email:
liveart-archives@bristol.ac.uk.
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Arnolfini Live Archive
The Live Art Archives have close links with Arnolfini Live's Archive, which is held at the Bristol
Record Office. |
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Sounding Performance
Sounding Performance is the web address, site and archive for an AHRC funded workshop series
called ‘Towards an Oral History of Performance and Live Art in the British Isles’,
exploring the methodologies of oral history in relation to live art and performance
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