Live Art Writing
Stream is a platform for texts that deal with “Live Art” in the broadest sense. The texts published here are dedicated to a single piece or a complete work, they reflect the author’s own work or that of another artist; they deal with concepts, developments and changes in Live Art as a whole.
We understand writing as a movement and see our texts as autonomous works. We write and publish experimental literary, theoretical and critical texts with reference to performance and live art in and outside Berlin.
Stream is not intended as a publication forum for reviews. Rather, we are an open group that shares an interest in writing as and about artistic practice. When publishing our texts, we commit to regularity according to need and capacity. We keep everything as simple and open as possible: the focus is on the writing itself. We do not follow a concept, we have not defined a format and we do not limit the texts in terms of scope, content or style. We want to create a channel for the desire to write about contemporary movement art.
We are starting Stream in the middle of a time in which live art is not accessible as a matter of course. Physical presence and the idea of “live” currently raises many questions – about absence, memory, the future. Writing is being rediscovered as a medium that can bridge distances.
Stream is based at Tanzfabrik and went online on September 1, 2020. The platform has no editor-in-chief and no central editorship; responsibility for the articles lies with the authors. All texts are published in the languages in which they were written (predominantly German and English). The current authors are: Sasha Amaya, Michela Filzi, Elisa Frasson, Beatrix Joyce, So Young H. Kim, Lisa Leopold, Daria Luriichuk, Adam Man, Lea Pischke, Anuya Rane, Parvathi Ramanathan, Nicola van Straaten, Susanna Ylikoski, and Felicitas Zeeden.
Other authors are welcome and can join us if interested or by invitation.
Contact: stream@tanzfabrik-berlin.de