Vital: International Live Artists of Chinese Descent

Hosted by the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, VITAL is an international festival of Live Art that aims to raise awareness of the diverse, exciting and challenging work being made by artists of Chinese descent from across the world. Vital 07 consists of a year of residencies by Chinese artists in collaboration with institutions across England. Vital 07 activities also include an international conference as well as a programme of performances. This publication is a scrapbook comprising stories, essays, reviews and images relevant to the festival.

Alternative title

VITAL 2007: The essence of performance

Access level

Onsite

artist

Becky Huehay IP, 葉曉曦,

LEE Wen, 李文,

LEUNG Po Shan Anthony, 梁寶山,

Jason Enghwa LIM, 林榮華,

practitioner

publisher

Chinese Arts Centre (Manchester, United Kingdom)

editor

Sarah CHAMPION

Location code

REF.VIT

Language

English

Keyword

performance art, diaspora, China, Hong Kong, Singapore

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

148

ISBN / ISSN

9780954544065

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

What's Vital?

What's vital about Vital? - LEE Wen, 李文

Notes from a 竹升 - Becky Huehay IP, 葉曉曦

Vital 06 / Vital 07

Vital 2006: Reflecting on Contemporary Practices - Andrew MITCHELSON

A Chinese frequency: vital 07 — the essence of performance - Rachel Lois CLAPHAM

Vital 07: A personal response - Brendan FAN

Artist responses

Personal statement - DUAN Yingmei, 段英梅

A conversation about a whisper - Rachel Lois CLAPHAM, Marcus YOUNG, 楊墨

Do we need to perform Performance Art? - Poshui

Warm - ZHOU Bin, 周斌

Identity and Perception

Male body fatigue - Lesley SANDERSON

Untitled (Dear Ma Liuming) - Mingyuen S. MA

Untitled (Dear He Chengyao) - Mingyuen S. MA

Essays from the Vital conference

Notes on Behaviour Art - YANG Zhichao, 楊志超

Relational practice: the audience as 'extras' or 'suffragettes'? - Voon Pow BARTLETT

Monumentality as experience: Public Live Art making available real environments of memory - YEUNG Yang, 楊陽

Structured improvisation and wall-banging since the 1970s: The performative vocabulary of Lily Eng - Becky Huehay IP, 葉曉曦

Vital: International Live Artists of Chinese Descent

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