Unlike with opera, people often ask, "What is Live Art?" The answer
is people have been experiencing it for the last hundred years, from
the earliest events at the Cabaret Voltaire where DADA was born to 
the happenings of the Sixties which influenced Andy Warhol, and in the
21st century this tradition continues to mutate.  Today Live Art is 
witnessed at perfomances by Vanessa Beecroft or The Battle of Orgreave 
by Jeremy Dellar and sell out performances by Franco B of O Lover Boy.
Live Art is an interrogation of the aesthetics of presence. Live Art 
is about being there.  
Live Art mixes genres and diverse cultural experiences to express the
complex organisation of contemporary life. It often involves work which 
questions commonly held assumptions such as, what is art?  Live art is
the trash-can of culture recycling and celebrating the debris of the 
modern world.