Applied Live Art looks at the ways in which performance can integrate participants and local context into the development of performance work. Three site-specific and socially engaged projects outline a methodology of practice that can integrate participants as co-authors. The book explores locale by delving into the rituals and myths in Naples, Italy; listening and sharing young people's stories on HIV/Aids in northern Ghana; and traversing the psychogeographic boundaries of memory in Beirut, Lebanon. The projects all experimented with the role of authorship, focusing on how a practitioner...