Live Action New York November 3, 2010

LIVE ACTION: NEW YORK Scandinavian Performance Art
[SCANDINAVIA: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland]

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"Live Action New York 10"

Wednesday, November 3 - Thursday, November 4
8:00-11:00 pm

LIVE ACTION: NEW YORK Scandinavian Performance Art
Performance art is on the move. In its second edition, Live Action New York 10 features some of the most important and emerging contemporary Scandinavian and North American performance artists in an intense and exciting event going beyond the mainstream.

Live Action New York 10 is here and now, it's ephemeral, it has attitude, it's fleeting, and it is avant-garde.

This second edition will start at Grace Exhibition Space, 840 Broadway in Brooklyn on Wednesday, November 3 and Thursday, November 4, starting at 9 p.m.

Live Action New York 10 then continues to Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, 58 Park Avenue in Manhattan on Friday November 5, Saturday, November 6 starting at 7 p.m. It ends on Sunday, November 7, starting at 2 pm. Admission is FREE.

For reservations, the public may call 212.847.9740

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ARTISTS

Live Action New York 10 features in its first edition, 18 major and emerging Scandinavian and North American visual performance artists like internationally renown Marilyn Arsem, Mari Novotny-Jones and Tony Schwensen (Boston), Johanna Householder. Besides these key figures in North American performance art we have also invited some emergent but highly qualified artists like Peter Dobill and Erik Hokansson from New York.

Alongside these North American artists Live Action New York presents some renowned Scandinavian artists like Jörgen Svensson (Gothenburg), Denis Romanovski (Stockholm), Rita Marhaug (Bergen), Kjetil Skøien (Oslo), alongside some younger and emergent artists like Birgit Salling Hansen and Søren Dahlgaard (Copenhagen), Peter Rosvik (Vaasa), Maurice Blok (Lahti) and Tomasz Szrama (Helsinki) as well as the Icelandic artist Magnus Logi Kristinsson (Helsinki). In this second edition of Live Action New York, the program presents various different and generations of performance artists in what will be an event going beyond the mainstream. We are sure that it will appeal to those who appreciates experimental avant-garde art and performance art in particular.

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THE IDEA

The fundamental idea behind Live Action New York: Scandinavian Performance Art is to showcase major and emerging performance artists from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It is our intention to make Live Action New York a recurrent performance art event in New York City. This first edition will be followed in 2010 by an event that presents not only Scandinavian artists, but artists from the United States as well, as to make it a true American-Scandinavian festival. With the objective to strengthen the ties and create an active dialogue between performance art and artists in the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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