A dynamic platform featuring new and recent works by New York Live Arts resident commissioned artists and curated guests, Live Artery provides a space for artists to network and share their work with the general public and presenters from around the world alike, which leads to commissions, tours and the building of long-term relationships.
In direct response to this call and the greater performing arts ecosystem’s loss of festivals, residencies and funding, the 2024 Live Artery will expand and include for the first time co-presentations with partner Under the Radar, and off-site performances at The Chocolate Factory, Gibney and Collapsable Hole. As the annual start to the spring season, the festival will proudly present 18 events over the course of 12 days, supporting 26 lead artists and their works.
Weathering
Faye Driscoll
New York Live Arts Theater
January 9-13
"An enthralling, epically adventurous work,” as called by the New York Times, returns to the Live Arts theater after an extended sold out run last year. A multi-sensory flesh and breath sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects, ten performers enact a glacially morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene.
The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu
Albert Ibokwe Khoza
New York Live Arts Studio
January 11-13
An immersive, live offering exposes the violent and shameful legacy of ethnological expositions (such as human zoos and exhibitions) that were popular in Western society between the 1870s and 1960s. Presented in partnership with Under the Radar.
Zero Station
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
New York Live Arts Studio
January 13
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith confront hypersexualization as the limp white feminine byproduct of capitalism, by presenting movements derived from pregnancy, lactation, mental illness, physical illness, surgery and aging and then segment, otherize and disappear these forms in trash.
Titanic Depression
Dynasty Handbag
New York Live Arts Theater
January 14-20
Titanic Depression combines animation, video, soundscapes and improvisation into a story about how a ship advertised as unsinkable strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks. The disaster became a potent symbol of the haves versus the have nots. After a sold-out premiere at Pioneer Works as part of Live Arts’ 2023 Live Ideas festival, the work will returns this time to the Live Arts stage, presented in partnership with Under the Radar.
Family Happiness
Juliana F. May
Co-presented at The Chocolate Factory
January 11-14
Juliana F. May's decade-long investigation into body control and the complicated system of victimhood and perpetration. Pitting Post-Modern and Modernist choreographic strategies such as task and symbolism against pop cultural references of the 80s and 90s, this dance-text-song triptych delivers a space for culpability and catharsis.
Venom
Roderick George I kNonAme Artist
Co-presented at Gibney
January 11-13
Venom exposes how the queer community faced silencing, isolation, being forced into hidin, and death through fear, media, family dynamics and 'God’s reckoning.' As a queer Black man, Roderick George pays homage to his community in its ability to uplift each other using the underground nightlife as a sanctuary. Co-presented by Gibney Presents DoublePlus and shares the program with Dual Rivet.
Deepe Darkenesse
Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein
Co-presented at The Collapsable Hole
January 12-15
Deepe Darknesse (pronounced dee-pee dark-ness-ay) is a dance-heavy, physical theater performance work by choreographers/experimental theater makers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, the performers push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity.
Live Artery Studio Showings
New York Live Arts Studio
January 13-15
Work-in-progress studio showings and excerpts include artists Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Troy Anthony | The Fire Ensemble, Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Wally Cardona, Miguel Gutierrez, Jasmine Hearn, Wanjiru Kamuyu | WKcollective, Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory and Shamel Pitts I TRIBE.
Artist Salon
New York Live Arts Lobby
January 14
An informal gathering to share recently premiered works with short presentations, conversations and light refreshments.
