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WELCOME TO LIVE 2007

The LIVE Performance Art Biennale was born Live at the End of the Century, a one-time festival celebration of
the 20th anniversary of the legendary 1979 Living Art Festival; a milestone in the long, rich and dynamic history of
performance art in Vancouver. It proposed a unique model by inviting the participation of Vancouver’s leading art
galleries and institutions to curate and produce performance art under a single festival umbrella. This collaborative and
symbiotic relationship became a new and functional model, a diversified multi-platform delivery system to present a
comprehensive, varied and engaging festival of contemporary performance art in Vancouver.

LIVE has gone on to produce new festival editions in 2001, 2003 and 2005; and has to date presented works by
some 140 artists. LIVE is dedicated to making performance art a vital part of our community and our culture. Our
mandate is to afford new opportunity for artists to create, present and promote new performative activities -- and to
feature the best and brightest local, regional, national and international practitioners of the artform.

This year we are challenging people in radical new ways. The curatorial theme of LIVE 2007 is ‘Public’ and our strategy is to take much of the performance art into the public realm. Through the theme of ‘Public’ and our intent on siteresposivity, we are integrating into the city to initiate new engagement, participation and discourse between the
artists and the public.

This, the 5th edition of the LIVE Performance Art Biennale offers more than 30 original performance art events
throughout Vancouver -- ranging from the spectacular, to the relational, to the interventional and the durational.
LIVE 2007 is also for the first time curating, producing and co-producing a new core of
8 feature presentations.

So, please join us to celebrate this trans-cultural celebration of talent and to share the reflections of contemporary life by today’s most engaging and talented artists.

I would like to acknowledge the unprecedented support of the 2007 LIVE Performance Art Biennale from the Canada
Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver and the Province of British Columbia. It is through their inclusiveness of the
performance art practice that we can present our program to you. I would also like to thank the directors and curators of our partner galleries for their collaborations and the LIVE Board of Directors for their continued commitment and guidance

Randy Gledhill
Executive Director / Curator
LIVE Performance Art Biennal