This book responds to the increase in live art programmed in many galleries and museums. The essays challenge the exclusion of live art from the the art history canon and explore participation, interactivity, digital and performative practices as presented in gallery spaces. Contributors include curators, academic scholars and practicing artists.

Outi Remes is the Gallery Director of the New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey. She is the author of many publications, including (with Pam Skelton, 2010), and the curator of numerous projects, such as the live art residencies and the exhibition series (with Cally Trench, 2009-12). Laura MacCulloch is Curator at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is responsible for a collection best known for its nineteenth-century paintings. She began working with contemporary art during her time as Curator of British Art at the National Museums Liverpool, where she curated exhibitions by the winners of the Liverpool Art Prize and acquired works by artists such as Haroon Mirza, Lubaina Himid and Yoko Ono. Marika Leino is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. She has written on early modern sculpture and the history of collecting. Her book, , was published with Peter Lang in 2013.

Contents: Mary Oliver: Lies, Lies, It’s All Lies I Tell You! – Pip Laurenson/Vivian van Saaze: Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shifting Perspectives – Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]: Exhibiting Performance, Staging Experience – Beryl Graham: Histories of Interaction and Participation: Critical Systems from New Media Art – Eva Fotiadi: From Event to Archive and to Event Again – Kaija Kaitavuori: Participation in the Gallery: (Re)negotiating Contracts – Amy Mechowski: Playing Ball: Friday Late, Performativity and the Victoria and Albert Museum – Lee Campbell: Heckler, Performance, Participation and Politeness: Using Performance Art as a Tool to Explore the Liminal Space between Art and Theatre and its Capacity for Confrontation – Leah Lovett: Crowd Control: Encountering Art’s Audiences – Outi Remes/Cally Trench: : Curatorial Notes about Playfulness – Sophia Yadong Hao: Attending the Gallery – Helen Sloan: – Claudia Marion Stemberger: South African Live Art and the Representation of its Residue: On Gabrielle Goliath’s .