To wrap up our peek back at LIVE 2023 here’s a clip from Joshua Ongcol’s performance, The Energy Never Dies (The E.N.D.), at Russian Hall on Oct 15, 2023.

Musicians: Miguel Maravilla, Marty Ndlovu, and Jen Yakamovich,
Dancers: Jason Owin Galeos, Joshua Ongcol, Momoko Shimada, Riko Hirota.

Camera: Yasuhiro Okada, clip edit and captions: Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

Continuing to look back at LIVE 2023, here’s a resonant clip from Michelle Sylliboy’s (@michelle_sylliboy_poet) performance, “Little children our beings they found you” – mijua’ji’jk ntininaq weji’skesnik, at the Russian Hall on Oct 15, 2023.

Music by M’Girl: Deanna Gestrin (St’at’imc), Cheri Maracle (Haudenosaunee, Irish), Renae Morriseau (Cree, Saulteaux) and Michelle Bardach (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, We Wai Kai Nation).

Camera: Yasuhiro Okada, clip edit and captions: Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

A clip from Elizabeth Milton’s performance, Queen Tilly and the Marys, at VIVO Media Arts Centre on Oct 14, 2023.

Performers in live Performance: Myriam Banting, Gina Fabbro, Rosa Mattiello, Liz Milton, Tilly Kosovic Milton, Neil Pellegrino, Gerry Sandberg and Tara Travis.

Camera: Yasuhiro Okada, clip edit and captions: Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

A clip from Jessica Karuhanga’s performance, ground and cover me, in the Woodwards Atrium on Oct 14, 2023.

Camera: Yasuhiro Okada, clip edit and captions: Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

A clip from Megan Arnold’s performance, A Tender Engine, at VIVO Media Arts Centre on Oct 13, 2023.

Camera: Yasuhiro Okada, clip edit and captions: Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

A clip from Zeus Bascon and Jordan Baylon’s performance, Multong Bakla: A Silent Presence of Beauty, at The Polygon Gallery on Oct 12, 2023.

Performers: Zeus Bascon, Jordan Baylon, Eris Fitz-James, Jose Macasinag, Manikween, Joshua Ongcol, Althea Pagdagdagan, Gabe Tiano and 1haida.

Camera: Yasuhiro Okada, clip edit and captions: Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

As the 2025 Biennale approaches this fall we’re taking a moment to peek back at some of the performances from LIVE 2023.

Starting off with a clip from Samra Mayanja’s performance, Bone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II), at Western Front on Oct 10, 2023.

Performers: Samra Mayanja, Peggy Lee, Andromeda Monk, Oluwasayo Olowo-Ake and Oluwasola Olowo-Ake

Original video courtesy of Western Front. Camera: Qiuli Wu, clip edit and captions: Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora

LIVE Biennale is excited to announce the launch of our new multi-year website.

With LIVE’s iterative nature this platform will be the site for engagement between festival years. This website is also the home of our ongoing archive project which includes an artist index connecting the early years of LIVE (1999-2005), organized by grunt gallery, to the 9 biennales (2007-2023) LIVE has hosted since becoming an independent non-profit.

See more at livebennale.ca

"Question of Pasta" - by Fausto Grossi

Pasta in the shape of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

Yesterday Paul Couillard send me one of my favourite kinds of emails—one line and a picture:

"An image taken by Chumpon Apisuk of 'Silence #8: Plumb Lines, with thanks to Rebecca Belmore' from the 2009 edition of LIVE!"
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Thank you for this fabulous addition to the archive!
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To hear Paul speak on this piece: vimeo.com/640209833

To see some of Apisuk's 2009 performance: youtube.com/watch?v=jokgdjzQWt

September 30 - October 3, 2015
Stories From The Edge - archive.openspace.ca/programmi
James Luna
Jeneen Frei Njootli
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Saul Garcia Lopez
Jessica Balitrónica
Willem Wilhelmus
Amy Malbeuf

From the grunt archives:

Margaret Dragu's 1999 performance for LIVE at then End of the Century

bchdp.arcabc.ca/islandora/obje

From the LIVE archvies:

Oct.15th 2009
A performances at the Hasting Steam Bath featuring Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Paul Coulliard, Roco Trigueros and Francisco-Fernando Granados:

youtube.com/watch?v=t4yqNt_kNY

In this segment of Annotating the Archive, Yasmine speaks to Guadalupe Martinez about her performance during the LIVE biennale in 2011.

More videos and archival information on our website,:
livebiennale.ca/2021

Filmed and edited by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora (@ywk). Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.

vimeo.com/602218297

“Mending” (2009) by Margaret Dragu

This work was part of a series of pieces centered around “verb actions” developed by Margaret Dragu in collaboration with Paul Couillard. In this piece, Dragu films herself repeating the action of “mending,” overlapping the subsequent iterations to create layers of actions that slowly deteriorate and obscure with each repetition.

More videos and archival information on our website, link in bio!

Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.

vimeo.com/641342882

In this segment of Annotating the Archives, Yasmine speaks to Margaret Dragu (@ladragu) about her performance during LIVE biennale in 2009.

More videos and archival information on our website, link in bio!

Interview filmed by Brady Marks (@furiousgreencloud) and edited by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora (@ywk). Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.

vimeo.com/597518526

In addition to the Assembly preparations, LIVE has begun digging into our archives. As we’ve been gathering, labelling, assessing and creating frameworks for the future of the LIVE archives, many questions have surfaced around what it means to hold a body of performance art documentation. How can context be introduced to support the documentation of past performances? How can the archive care for and serve the artists whose documentation it holds?

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