Performance Art in the United Kingdom (UK)

Action and live artists in/from United Kingdom/ Great Britain.

Main literature and links page

British Artists and Performance Art Groups

  • Information and Links
  • CEREMONY (UK), Future Ritual’s festival of performance art. Intergenerational and international, CEREMONY is a heady gathering of artists and ideas. This year’s programme considers the ways queers, migrants and others who inhabit the outsides and undersides have tended to mystery, ritual and connection in the shadow of Empire and industry. What wild energies and enlivening presences may yet be found, growing up through the concrete?
  • Irani, Tara Fatehi : Mishandled Archive
  • Live Art Development Agency – LADA
  • Live Art Scotland
  • O U I Performance
  • Sarabande – a charitable foundation with the ambition to support the most creatively fearless minds of the future. To date, Sarabande has nurtured more than 320 artists and designers, and supported tens of thousands more through a pioneering public programme of events. Sarabande’s support is offered in three core ways – scholarships to study at top level institutions in London, a subsidised studio programme with bespoke mentoring, and a public programme of on-site events for the wider creatives industries.
  • Wagaine Salome, Ed.: Vanishing Points, published by LADA
  • LAUK – Live Art UK