About
CollectingLiveArt is a collaborative project between art historian/curator Teresa Calonje and artist/curator Laura Eldret, exploring issues and opportunities of collecting, preserving and re-producing live artworks.
Driven by a want to ensure a legacy of ephemeral works within public and private art collections, they aim to raise the debate and establish a new framework for artists and collectors to engage with.
Teresa Calonje
Art historian and curator, Teresa Calonje was born in Madrid and studied Art History in the Complutense, Madrid before moving to Paris to finish her thesis paper on the relationships between contemporary dance and the visual arts. In Paris she worked for the Galerie Chantal Crousel and then with the art production agency Arthurpym/Eva Albarran working on projects with Kader Attia, Pierre Huyghe, Melik Ohanian and Xavier Veilhan. She moved to London in 2005, and has been involved as a freelance in several projects with among other organisations, the Contemporary Art Society and the Michael Clark Company.
Alongside running the CollectingLiveArt project, she is currently completing an Msc in Development Studies focusing on globalisation and political economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
Laura Eldret
Laura Eldret is an artist and curator. She has a disparate artistic practice that includes performance, sculpture, installation, interventions and drawing. Recent projects include ‘Poignancy Passing Muster’, V22 at Wharf Road, London; ‘Ripe for Revisiting on a Daily Basis’, 52 Meters, London; Monument performed at Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes, France; and Magic Order, a group exhibition in a car, at Art Car Boot , Big Chill 2009. She is currently developing several projects including A HA HA at Jerwood Project Space in October 2009. As a freelance curator she has worked for many art organizations, including Contemporary Art Society and Arts Unwrapped, she is also co-founder of the CollectingLiveArt campaign; co-curating Performance at Zoo Art Fair, 2008, London and presenting Conversations, at Liste, Basel, 2009.