Article: Art Now Live.

Writing about live art tends to turn the critic into a storyteller forced to describe the characteristics of performance, the 'now' and the 'live', in the past tense. However, the relation between work and word cannot be reduced to a simple opposition between a dematerialised, ephemeral artwork and the always late putting-into-language of art writing. Instead it exists within a complex set of networks where things feed into and affect one another. This has become evident in the rise and stable continuation of critical debates challenging the notion of presence within performance art while pointing to the performative aspects of criticism itself.

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