About
Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER) is a support group initiated by Dr. Veronica Cordova de la Rosa for contemporary artists, researchers and agit-prop performers, practices and ideas.
Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER) is a performance art platform founded in 2015 in Oxford by Dr. Veronica Cordova de la Rosa. The platform emerged from her artistic research into experimental performance practices and collective modes of working.
LAPER supports the development of live art through artist-led meetings, research-led gatherings, and public presentations. It engages with performance as a live visual medium composed of image, action, and object, often situated within specific contexts or sites.
As director, Dr. Cordova de la Rosa has organised numerous performance art meetings and three International Performance Art Festivals: Elastic (2017), Squash & Stretch (2018), and Lead (2019). These programmes brought together national and international artists working across experimental and live art practices.
LAPER has received funding support from the School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University, Santander Awards, Oxford City Council, and occasional support from established artists in the UK.
The platform has supported visiting artists presenting work to student and public audiences in Oxford, facilitating exchange between experimental performance practices and the city’s academic and cultural contexts.
LAPER facilitates opportunities for artists to present and document their work within performance and exhibition contexts.
What is Live Art?
Live Art is a live visual and experiential practice that encompasses a wide range of performance-based and interdisciplinary artistic approaches. It is a language of image, action, and object, often created in relation to specific contexts or sites.
It is an experimental and research-led field in which artists explore performance as a method of inquiry. Practices may range from carefully structured works to improvisational actions with minimal or no pre-determined script. Artists may work individually, collaboratively, or in direct relation to audiences, combining formal and informal strategies.
Live Art can take place in diverse contexts and may engage individuals or groups in different ways. The work emerges in the moment of encounter between artist and audience, shaping a shared but temporary experience.
This encounter may provoke reflection, challenge perception, build connection, or simply offer an experience that exists only in that moment and then disappears.