Beings & Things, at Playing-UP The Symposium, Tate Modern

Abstract

A contribution to the panel Beings & Things, with Lena Simic & Sid Anderson (Institute For The Art and Practice of Dissent At Home), moderated by Professor Heike Roms (Aberystwyth University) made in response to the below questions: What are the different relationships and possibilities between art that is for, with, or about kids? • What can Live Art offer as a tool for promoting cultural agency, as a means to critique power relationships, and as an approach to explore characteristics of childhood as material? • How Live Art can be employed as a strategy for cross generational collaboration, risk and agency? • What we can learn from children’s relationships with Live Art? The Symposium was curated by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), Tate Early Years and Family Programme and Theatre of Research