The NRLA takes place over five days at The Arches with each day packed with a wonderfully diverse range of international work that defies definition.

You may be provoked, amused or just curious but with a day ticket you can see a great cross-section of projects by artists who recognise no rules.

Many established artists premiere new pieces, while The Platform features the brightest new artists from across the UK and Ireland. Platform Artists are chosen from a nation-wide selection process hosted by venues and colleges in collaboration with the NRLA and the Live Art Development Agency, London.

The longest running live art festival in Europe, the NRLA is renowned for developing new talent and for introducing new audiences to live art. Many previous platform artists have gone on to world acclaim including Forced Entertainment, Annie Griffin and Douglas Gordon. Other artists who have created major works for past festivals include Derek Jarman, Mona Hatoum, DV8, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Franko B and Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker.

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Commissions

• Eve Dent

• Geraldine Pilgrim

• Ian Smith

• Pernille Spence

• Lisa Watts

• Aaron Williamson

Invited artists

• Marina Abramovic

• Bobby Baker

• Bodies In Flight

• Anne Bean

• Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci

• Richard Dedomenici

• Iona Kewney & Eavesdropper

• Tim Etchells

• Forced Entertainment

• Matthew Goulish

• Bob Ostertag & Pierre Hébert

• Raimund Hoghe

• Institute of Failure

• Kipper Kids

• Johan Lorbeer

• Lone Twin

• Lynne Marsh

• Michael Mayhew

• Graeme Miller & John Smith

• New Media Scotland

• Michelle Noiret

• Angelika Oei

• Áine Phillips

• Plan b

• Hideyuki Sawayanagi

• Anne Seagrave

• Stelarc

• Stevie Wishart Ensemble

Platform artists

• Matt Cook 

• Yara Elsherbini

• Gareth Kennedy

• G.A.L.

• Ilana Mitchell

• Jon Fawcett 

• Kenny McBride 

• Lee Patterson 

• Mark Palmer 

• Sarah Jane Pell 

• Topsy Qur'et 

• Kate Stannard 

• Transphobia

• Mark Traynor 

• The Special Guests

• Rosie Ward 

Talks & Events

• In conversation with Michael Mayhew

• Stelarc talk

• In conversation Oei & Verouden

• Somethings About Live Art

• NRLA in Oz talk

• Gomez-Peña/Vazquez film

• Pasifika Divas film