{{multiple issues| {{primary sources|date=December 2023}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2023}} }} {{infobox Festival | name = Live Arts Week | location = Bologna | image = Photo Maria Hassabi - STAGED? - Live Arts Week VI, 2017 - Ex GAM Bologna.jpg | caption = Live Arts Week VI, 2017 - Ex GAM Bologna | organized = Xing<ref>[http://www.xing.it Xing]</ref> | genre = live arts | website = {{URL|www.liveartsweek.it}} }}

'''Live Arts Week'''<ref>[http://www.liveartsweek.it Live Arts Week]</ref> is a project by Xing, born in 2012 out the fusion of the experiences of the two Bologna festivals (2000>2011):<ref name="Felisatti">{{cite web|url=https://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/ars/law-live-arts-week-2014|title=L.A.W. (Live Arts Week) #2014. Utopia della memoria nel presente|author=Eleonora Felisatti|date=9 June 2014|access-date=16 July 2021|archive-date=16 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716125507/https://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/ars/law-live-arts-week-2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Teufel">{{cite web|url=https://zero.eu/it/eventi/217540-live-arts-week-2021,bologna/|title=Live Arts Week 2021|author=Joe Teufel}}</ref> Netmage - International Live Media Festival and F.I.S.Co. - Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo. Live Arts Week takes place in Bologna, Italy, once a year, and it is developed throughout one week in different locations and settings in town.

==Mission==

Event dedicated to live arts, it hosts a blend of artworks and productions that revolve around the presence, performance and perceptual experience of sounds and visions, with a program of live works (performances, environments, concerts, live media, expanded cinema) presented by important personalities in the international and contemporary research scene. The set-up suggests a citywide event, involving several spaces, organizations and institutions active in the field of contemporary arts in Bologna.

==History== ===Edition 2012=== '''Venues:'''<br> Palazzo Re Enzo • Teatro Duse • Spazio Carbonesi • Hotel Palace • Nowhere • Palazzo Pepoli - Museo della Storia di Bologna

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Anne Juren (FR-AU) * Antonia Baehr (DE) * Blues Control (US)/Laraaji (US) * Canedicoda(IT)/Mirko Rizzi (IT) * Christine De Smedt (BE) * Claudia Castellucci (IT) * Cristina Rizzo (IT)/Lucia Amara (IT) * Denis Tyfus (BE)/Vom Grill (BE) * Floris Vanhoof (BE) * Hartmut Geerken (DE) * Hieroglyphic Being (US) * Jan Ritsema (NL) * Krõõt Juurak (EE) * Luca Trevisani (IT) * Luís Miguel Félix (PT) * Marino Formenti (IT-AT) * Orphan Fairytale (BE) * Ottaven (IT) * Robert Steijn (NL-AT) * Salka Ardal Rosengren (SE) * Saša Asentić (RS) * Silvia Costa (IT) * The Claw ( (US) * Yannick Val Gesto (BE)/Roman Hiele (BE) * Xavier Le Roy (FR/DE) * {{ill|Yves-Noël Genod|fr}} (FR) * {{ill|Giovanni Anceschi|it}} (IT) * Ben Rivers (GB) * Mattin (ES) {{div col end}}

===Edition 2013=== '''Venues:'''<br> MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna • Cinema Lumière • Garage Pincio • Cassero

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Alix Eynaudi (FR AU) * Anne Juren/Marianne Baillot/Alix Eynaudi (FR/AU/BE/PL) * Daniela Cattivelli (IT) * Dmitry Paranyushkin (RU-DE) * Dracula Lewis/Out4Pizza (IT/US) * Elise Florenty/Marcel Türkowsky (FR/DE) * Eszter Salamon/Christine De Smedt (DE/BE) * Mårten Spångberg/Linnea Martinsson (SW) * Goodiepal (DK) * Helm (GB) * Junko (JP) * Lucio Capece (AR-DE) * Muna Mussie (IT-BE) * Nature Theater of Oklahoma (US) * Pierre Huyghe (FR) * Riccardo Benassi (IT) * Rose Kallal/Joe DeNardo(CA/US) * Sara Manente (IT-BE) * Sun Araw(US) * Tony Conrad (US) {{div col end}}

=== Edition 2014 === '''Venues:'''<br> MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna • Cinema Lumière • Biblioteca Salaborsa

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Aki Onda (US-JP) * Barokthegreat (IT) * Ben Rivers/Ben Russell (UK/US) * Ben Vida (US) * Canedicoda(IT) * Daniel Löwenbrück (Raionbashi) (DE) * Dora Garcia (ES) * Doreen Kutzke (DE) * Enrico Boccioletti (IT) * Èlg (FR) * Gaëlle Boucand (FR) * Ken Jacobs (US) * {{ill|Marco Berrettini|fr}} (CH) * Maria Hassabi (US-CY) * Mette Edvardsen (NO-BE) * MSHR (US) * Neil Beloufa (FR) * Porter Ricks (Thomas Köner/Andy Mellwig) (DE/DE) * Rashad Becker (SY-DE) {{div col end}}

=== Edition 2015 === '''Venues:'''<br> Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini • MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna

'''Artists:'''

{{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Adrian Rew (US) * Alessandro di Pietro (IT) * Andrea Magnani (IT) * Andrew Norman Wilson (US) * Anne de Vries (NL) * Anthony Pateras (AT-DE) * Auto Italia (US/GB) * Ben Vickers/Holly White (GB/GB) * Canedicoda (IT) * Carola Spadoni (IT-DE) * {{ill|Claudia Triozzi|fr}} (FR-IT) * David Horvitz (US) * Enrico Boccioletti (IT) * Francesco Cavaliere (IT-DE) * Gábor Lázár (HU) * Harm van den Dorpel (NL) * Ilja Karilampi (ES-DE) * Jaakko Pallasvuo (FI-DE) * Jack Hauser/Satu Herrala/Sabina Holzer/Jeroen Peeters (AT/FI/AT/BE) * Jennifer Chan (CA) * Luciano Chessa (IT-US) * MACON (FR) * MK/Luca Trevisani/Franco Farinelli/Roberta Mosca/Sigourney Weaver/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch (IT) * Marco Dal Pane (IT) * Markus Öhrn (SE) * Martin Kohout (CZ-DE) * N.M.O. (Morten J Olsen/Rubén Patiño) (NO/ES) * Ogino Knauss (IT-DE) * Philip Corner (US) * Riccardo Benassi (IT-DE) * Roberto Fassone (IT) * Salvatore Panu (IT) * Seth Price (US) * VA AA LR (Adam Asnan/Vasco Alves/Louie Rice) (GB/PT/GB) * Valerio Tricoli (IT-DE) * Vera Mantero & guests (PT) * Xavier Le Roy (DE/FR) * Yuri Pattison (IE) * Z.B. Aids (FR) {{div col end}}

===Edition 2016=== '''Venue:'''<br> MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=18em}} *Alix Eynaudi *Duppy Gun *Florian Hecker *Invernomuto *Lamin Fofana *Florian Hecker *{{ill|Marco Berrettini|fr}} /* MELK PROD *Minoru Sato *Mårten Spångberg *Primitive Art *Sara Manente *Trond Reinholdtsen *{{ill|Zapruder filmmakersgroup|it}} {{div col end}}

=== Edition 2017 === '''Venues:'''<br> Ex GAM • Teatro Comunale di Bologna • Galleria P420 • LOCALEDUE • CAR DRDE • Tripla

'''Artists:'''

{{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Alexandra Bachzetsis (CH) * Anastasia Ax (SE)/C. Spencer Yeh (TW) * Antonija Livingstone (CA)/Claudia Hill (DE) * Ashes Withyman Moore (CA) * Carlos Casas (ES) * Coro Alpino RC (IT) * Costante Biz (IT) * Cristina Kristal Rizzo (IT) * Dana Michel (CA) * Lorenzo Senni (IT) * Luigi Ontani (IT) * Margherita Morgantin (IT)/Martina Raponi (IT) * Maria Hassabi (CY) * Mattin (ES)/Miguel Prado (ES) * Mette Edvardsen (NO-BL) * Nico Vascellari (IT) * Nicola Ratti (IT) * Nicolás Lamas (PE) * Olivier Kosta-Thèfaine (FR) * Prurient (US) * Silvia Costa (IT) * Ulrich Krieger (DE) * Valerio Tricoli (IT) {{div col end}}

=== Edition 2018 === '''Venues:'''<br> Ex GAM • Padiglione Esprit Nouveau • MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna • Galleria P420 • LOCALEDUE • CAR DRDE • GALLERIAPIÙ • Tripla • Galleria De' Foscherari

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Antonia Baehr/Latifa Laabissi/Nadia Lauro (DE/FR/FR) * David Wampach (FR) * Goodiepal & Pals (DK) * Hannah Sawtell (GB) * Julian Weber (DE) * Krõõt Juurak (EE) * Leandro Nerefuh/Libidiunga Cardoso/Cecilia Lisa Eliceche/Caetano (BR/GA) * {{ill|Liliana Moro|it}} (IT) * Mark Fell & Drumming (GB/PT) * Mark Fell & Justin F. Kennedy (GB/US) * Mark Fell (GB) * Mette Edvardsen(NL-BE) * NO-PA PA-ON/Luciano Maggiore/Louie Rice (IT/GB) * Paolo Bufalini/Filippo Cecconi (IT) * Rian Treanor (GB) * Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larraechea (CL-NL) {{div col end}}

=== Edition 2019 === '''Venues:'''<br> Galleria P420 • Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio • Fontana Parco della Montagnola • Chiesa Evangelica Metodista • Palazzo Volpe • Pinacoteca di Bologna • Palazzo Pezzoli • Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna • Cinema Modernissimo • Ex negozio materiale electrico Priori

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=18em}} * Barokthegreat (IT) * Billy Bultheel (BE-DE) * Catherine Christer Hennix (SE-DE) * Doro Bengala (IT) * Ellen Arkbro (SE)/Marcus Pal (SE) * Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio(Filippo Marzocchi/Mattia Pajè) & friends (Giovanni Rendina, Andrea Magnani, Daniele Guerrini) (IT) * Marcelo Evelin/Demolition Incorporada (BR) * Michele Rizzo (IT-NL) * Simon Vincenzi (GB) * Sorour Darabi (IR-FR) * Stine Janvin (NO-DE) {{div col end}}

=== Edition 2020 === '''Venues:'''<br> Bologna outdoors • LOCALEDUE • P420 • Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna • Spazio Hera • FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive • Palazzo Vizzani • Teatro Auditorium Manzoni • Ex Chiesa di San Mattia

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=28em}} * YEAH YOU (Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi) (GB) {{div col end}} '''Other invited artists''' (events cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic): {{div col|colwidth=18em}} * {{ill|Jeong Geumhyung|de}} (KR) * Katerina Andreou (GR/FR) * Mette Edvardsen/Matteo Fargion (NO/BL/GB) * Riccardo Benassi (IT) * Onyx Ashanti (USA) * Graham Lambkin (GB) * Yasmine Hugonnet (CH) * Canedicoda (IT) * Cristina Kristal Rizzo/Charlie Laban Trier (IT/DK/NL) {{div col end}}

=== Edition 2021 === '''Venues:'''<br> Lungo Reno Quartiere Barca • Orti Comunali Boschetto

'''Artists:''' {{div col|colwidth=18em|rules=1px dashed pink;|small=yes}} * Alessandro Di Pietro * Alessandro Rilletti * Alix Eynaudi * Andrea Dionisi * Andrea Magnani * Annamaria Ajmone * Anne Faucheret * Attila Faravelli * Biagio Caravano * Bianca R. Schroeder * Canedicoda * Carolina Fanti * Caterina Montanari * Chiara Lucisano * Christophe Albertijn * Costanza Candeloro * Cristina Kristal Rizzo * Edoardo Ciaralli * Elena Radice * Eleonora Luccarini * Enrico Gilardi * Enrico Malatesta * Francesca Duranti * Francesca Ugolini * Francesco Cavaliere * g. olmo stuppia * Gina Monaco * Gitte Hendrikx * Giuseppe Vincent Giampino * Guillermo De Cabanyes * Invernomuto * Isabella Mongelli * Jacopo Benassi * Kinkaleri * Laura Pante * Lele Marcojanni * Loredana Tarnovschi * Lucia Amara * Marco Mazzoni * Marcos Simoes * Margherita Morgantin * Massimo Conti * Mattia Paje * Michele Di Stefano * Michele Lori * Michele Rizzo * Milena Rossignoli * mk * Muna Mussie * Nicola Ratti * Paolo Bufalini * Renato Grieco * Roberta Mosca * Roberta Pagani * Sara Manente * Sebastiano Geronimo * Standards * Virginia Genta * Vittoria Caneva * Zapruder {{div col end}}

== See also ==

*Performing arts *Performance art *Sound Art *Expanded Cinema *Happening *Experimental music

== References ==

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==Further reading==

* Silvia Fanti (Xing). "Cronache", in Zanetti, Uliana (eds) (2023). ''La performance a Bologna negli anni '70''. Bologna. MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna. {{ISBN|978-88-96296-41-7}} *Benoit Antille, Michele Fiedler, Andrey Parshikov, ''Since the beginning it was very simple in Sotto la strada, la spiaggia'', Torino, ed.Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2012 *{{cite book|last1=luca|first1=Barreca|last2=Andrea|first2=Lissoni|last3=Luca|first3=Lo Pinto|last4=Costanza|first4=Paisan|title=Terrazze. Artisti, storie, luoghi in Italia negli anni zero |date=2014 |publisher=Marsilio |isbn=978-88-317-1511-9 |pages=66,68,69,469,479}} *{{cite journal |last1=Acca |first1=Fabio |title=nuovi cartografi delle arti vive ibridano generi, identità, discipline |journal=Alias |date=21 April 2012}}

==External sources==

*[http://www.xing.it/ Xing Official Website] *{{cite web |title=Polisingularity Universe |url=http://www.neromagazine.it/n/?p=10672&color=C69C6D%20Nero%20Magazine |website=Nero |date= 11 April 2013 |accessdate=5 May 2019}} *{{cite web |title=A thousand platforms |url=https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2013/05/2/a_thousand_platforms.html |website=Domus |date= 2 May 2013 |accessdate=5 May 2019}} *{{cite web |title=A proposito del Live Arts Week |url=http://atpdiary.com/exhibit/a-proposito-del-live-arts-week/ |website=ATP Diary |date= 13 April 2013 |accessdate=5 May 2019}} *{{cite web |first1=Paola |last1=Granato |title=La Forma della Performance |url=http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=57269&IDCategoria=45 |website=Exibart |date= 16 April 2018 |accessdate=5 May 2019}} *{{cite web |first1=Tommaso |last1=Gatti |title=Live arts week Bologna |url=https://flash---art.it/2019/04/live-arts-week-bologna/ |website=FLASHART |date= April 2018 |accessdate=5 May 2019}} *{{cite web |title=Here it is Elsewhere |url= https://www.neroeditions.com/here-it-is-elsewhere/ |website=Nero |date=24 April 2019 |accessdate=5 May 2019}}

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