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Theatre Collection The Live Art Archives

Live Art Archives logo 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, and Performance magazine 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, and books to support research into Live Art, which are held in the Theatre Collection library.

star NEWS - NRLA 2010 March 17th to March 21st
For further information see the New Moves Website.

The NRLA 30th Anniversary Catalogue - or Box Set - will be launched at midnight at the CCA on Wednesday March 17th. All contributors will receive a complimentary Box Set. However, if you would like to order extra sets, there is a downloable pre-order form. As this is a limited edition box set, it is anticipated that demand will outstrip supply, so pre-ordering is recommended. Pre-ordered Box Sets are also discounted (£35 rather than £45).star

star NEWS - The Live Art Archives web pages are included in the recently launched 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.star

star NEWS - The new NRLA Video Archive catalogue is now online and searchable. For further information on the catalogue and the NRLA Video Archive Digitisation Project, see the NRLA Video Archive web page.star

star CONGRATULATIONS to Nikki Milican, Artistic Director of the NRLA, who has been awarded an OBE for her services to Live Art. star

The Live Art Archives are responsible for the administration of the LIVEART, FESTIVAL and ARTNET JISCmail discussion lists.

Record of Live Art Practice logo The Record of Live Art Practice
(RLAP)
National Review of Live Art Archive logo The National Review of Live Art Archive
(NRLA Archive)
Digital Performance Archive logo The Digital Performance Archive
(DPA)
Arts Council England Live Art and Performance logo The Arts Council England
Live Art and Performance Archive
(ACELAP Archive)
Performance magazine pic The Performance magazine Archive
(PMAG Archive)
queerupnorth logo The queerupnorth Video Archive
(QUN Archive)
Franko B Archive logo The Franko B Archive

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.
RLAP, the NRLA Archive and the DPA are all searchable through the online databases deposited into the
Arts and Humanities Data Service Performing Arts Collections (there is a single database, called the Live Art Archive, which contains the data for both RLAP and the NRLA Archive).

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.

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.

What is Live Art? DVD - available in the Live Art Archives So ......... what is Live Art?

Live Art Archives Links
Artists Organisations, Venues and Festivals

Live Art Archives Bibliography
Books and Articles Journals & E-zines

Great Western Research logo The Great Western Research Project
Performing the Archive:
the Future of the Past

Arnolfini Live Archive
The Live Art Archives have close links with Arnolfini Live's Archive, which is held at the Bristol Record Office.

What's Welsh for Performance?
A research project devoted to uncovering and archiving the history of Performance Art in Wales.

Experimental Theatre and Live Art in the British Library Sound Archive: A Rough Guide (download)

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