![]() This year’s festival slogan is taken from Joseph Beuys whose statement “Art is the Science of Freedom” stands like a banner and a hope in a world where freedom of expression is under constant threat. We, and democracy, won the appeal in the civil court of Gothenburg, making it possible for us all to experience her work and for the artist to go abroad and express herself freely. As an event it has experienced VISA problems for our invited artists, like in our 2019 edition when we had to appeal a refusal from the Migration office to give a female artist from Iran a Schengen VISA. Just like the city of Gothenburg, the program of Live Action is highly international, and also a showcase of a multi-cultural world. In the afternoon of the 17 th we finish Live Action 17 in the hustling and bustling end of the Avenue, Brunnsparken, the public transportation hub connecting all suburbs and inner city districts of the city with a flow of people in the hundreds of thousands. We continue next day on Friday September 16 at the same time at the center of the Avenue center, in the reposing greens of Bältesspännarparken facing the old Opera house. We begin at its top in the open space outside the City Library Thursday September 15 at 12.30. In three visually and socially different public spaces on the city’s main artery, the Avenue. We celebrate this return by simply being there, by a modest presence, during three days in the city centre of Gothenburg. Now we are back live and alive, presenting performance work in public space, in the common ground of everyone. ![]() We just could not risk the health of the visitors or the artists. ![]() Live Action survived the pandemic thanks to the unwavering support from our public funders, the city of Gothenburg, the region West of Sweden and the national Cultural Council, who all understood that we had to produce the festival safely as an online event during these two difficult years. Something has happened to everyone, and while it is difficult to put our finger on it, we are all aware. We have entered a new post-pandemic era characterized by a mind-change. This 17th edition of the festival celebrates the return of Live Action in public space. "ART IS THE SCIENCE OF FREEDOM" JOSEPH BEUYS
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