Creative Futures: What does ‘liveness’ mean anyway?
Channel: Watershed
Date: 2021-06-01

What does ‘liveness’ mean anyway?

Chair: Emile Clarke 
Panel: Angie Bual, Naomi Smyth, Matthew Austin and Olly Langdon

Through a pathfinder delivered entirely online, we explored what liveness and togetherness means in the context of Expanded Performance. The sensation of ‘liveness’ is something we might traditionally find in a music gig or a theatre performance - a real time experience between a performer and an audience, either in a physical space or mediated through technology. Innovations in technology and creative processes are enabling new experiences that create a feeling of presence or connection to a narrative or character. The edges of ‘liveness’ are blurring.