The Festival of Live Art was a biennial festival that occurred in Melbourne in three iterations, in March 2014, 2016 and 2018.

The Festival of Live Art (FOLA) was co-produced by a consortium of three Melbourne presenters with an interest in working with live, conceptual and experimental art: Arts House; Theatre Works and Footscray Community Arts Centre.

FOLA encouraged audiences to attend a boutique experimental festival, privileging interaction, experimentation and artworks in non-traditional mediums and spaces. The Festival of Live Art offered audiences active engagement with art – prioritising unique, high quality and deep artistic experiences.

The program for the 2016 festival can be found here:
Festival of Live Art 2016

The events within the Arts House festival program can be found under ‘Related Events’ below.

Image credit: The Naked Self by Michele Lee and Tanya Dickson, Festival of Live Art 2016. Image by Jody Haines.