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The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home - Performing Interventions, a practice-based research submission consisting of three performance interventions in 2008: 'Miss Julie in Utopia'; 'The Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge' and 'First Retreat Then Advance!!', accompanied with documentation and supporting publications.

'The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home - Performing Interventions' is a practice-based research submission and consists of a body of work including performance work, video documentation and supporting publications.

This submission consists of three performance-based events: 'First Retreat Then Advance!!' (DIY workshop funded by Live Art Development Agency, 2008), 'Miss Julie in Utopia' (the Institute, 2008); 'Blackmarket Intervention' at 'Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non- Knowledge No.11 On Waste. The Disappearance and Comeback of Things & Values' (the Bluecoat, 2008). All performance-based events include documentation.

Supporting publications include: 'You Couldn't Make it Up' Liverpool Biennial performative review in MUTE, 'First Retreat Then Advance!!' in artist newspaper Future Visions of History and DIY5 Report by Live Art Development Agency as well as short introduction of the Institute in Nerve, grassroots arts and culture magazine.

The contribution to knowledge is the development of an interventionist practice of politico-cultural agency from a family base into the leading cultural institutions of the city within the context of anti or alter-capitalism. This is a body of work which is to be read as part of the long-standing 'trickster' tradition in radical arts practices which operates via deliberate and conscious use of context-specific performance vocabularies. The end result of which is an intervention into dominant practices and concomitant ideological positions. This submission presents a range of such vocabularies across selected contexts of European Capital of Culture Liverpool08 (2008) including contemporary art exhibition Liverpool Biennial 2008, contemporary performance hub (and then newly opened) the Bluecoat and the family home in Everton, Liverpool. The intention is to develop the trickster tradition in radical arts practice to target a specific event and the 'atmosphere' that event created and disseminated locally and internationally to tourists, city funders, international artists and the ECoC (European Capital of Culture).