Publishers’ Note

PUBLISHERS' NOTE PerformanceArt Magazineis changing its name *'creative confusion" in the performance world to LIVE, and expanding its size and format as of today and this magazine was created to reflect this issue. Several factors have contributed to this rethinking about the magazine and the areas of perfonnance we are covering. Namely, the Soho Weekly News seems to be phasing out performance coverage and the Village Voice has never expressed much interest, in it: other publications coming out of New York have only given the area token coverage: museums and galleries are sponsoring fewer performance events. That pretty much leaves us to explore the vast field of performance activity in New York on a regular basis. The new, larger size of the magazine will allow us to increase our coverage and amount of photos in a more visually expansive format atid design. There is great deal of what one might call the transformative nature of this activit,,. When we started the magazine last Spring we didn't realize the extent to wvhich we'd be covering performances in lofts. clubs, and alternative spaces. Neither did we anticipate the amount of activity wI h could comfortably fit in the pages of this magazine. In our three issues thus far we've expanded coverage in perfoniance art and moved to include dance, film. video, music, and literary readings. The notion of performance itself is changing and newer and younger performers are working in all kinds of imaginative crossover areas, helping to snape new audience ideas about the nature and shape of the audience experience . The title LIVE, we feel, better reflects the dynamism of the performance world 3nd the openness of this world to new definition. We know from the response to this magazine. nows in national and international distribution, that there is a great audience demand for a publication about performance, and performers , too, have begun to look to us for coverage of their work. We expect to grow into more nation a I a nd international perspectives on performance as much as we can, though New I ork actisity will alway s be our focus. As it is. we can't coN er all of it. LIVE will continue in its established format but we hope to more thoroughly pursue all kinds of performance activit,. trends, and aesthetics from the most out-of-the-way places to the more established spaces. The Publishers SUBSCRI PTI ON ORDER F ORM See Last Page 2 ...