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Live Resource: collaborative 2-day live participatory performance event at Tate Modern.

Kidd’s overarching research aim is to unlock the art object from a static encounter with its audience through a pedagogical and studio-based enquiry. Her practice is concerned with the speculative space between the art object and viewer. This continuing research into the speculative space between the artwork and viewer has extended into a developing collaboration with Joanne Addison.

Kidd and Addison’s educational resource “e” was commissioned by Tate Modern to accompany the retrospective exhibition of Alighiero Boetti (Spring 2012). Widely distributed to multiple audiences, “e” promoted open-ended enquiry through visual and written prompts. The project set out to question the role of the educational resource and unfix the artworks from a didactic position. With the intention of being open-ended like a conversation, “e” was reliant on the agency of the audience and their expansive encounter. “e” was presented at Engage 2012, and its thinking underpinned a live event at “In site of conversation”, a symposium at Tate Modern.

In December 2012, Kidd and Addison’s “live resource” event at Tate Modern expanded the methodology established by “e”. For two days, live in the gallery they invited the audience to join them in the research/production of a continually changing educational resource. Unwritten, the “Live Resource” promoted responsive interactions between artists, audience and art objects and explored the potential to challenge the presentation of static art works fixed in time.