The prize is unique in its particular attention to hybrid research, underlining the “openness” and fluidity of performance, its social and political implications and its level of public understandability. The competition is open to a wide range of emerging performative actions, including: media arts, lecture performances, task performances, text-based performances and multimedia storytelling, relational practices and workshop-based projects, flash mobs, politically engaged and activist projects, experience design, fashion design and relational urbanism.

The 9 projectsselected by Live Works will be invited to participate in a production residency at Centrale Fies from the 1st to the 10th July 2014, during which they will be awarded a budget of €500.00 to produce their performance. The production of the performance projects during the residency will be supported by diverse types of curatorship, from theoretical to technical development. During the residency phase, Centrale Fies will provide a technician and a production manager to assist the artists as they develop the selected projects. The residency phase is an essential part of the development of the competition and the selected projects. In the event that the residency cannot be carried out in the period indicated in the competition announcement, it is possible to organise alternative forms of residency. The proposal for an alternative residency must be justified by the typology and characteristics of the project presented. The performances produced will be presented during the 34th edition of the Drodesera Festival of performing arts. On this occasion, the 9 finalists will be evaluated by a jury who will select the winner. The winning artist will be offered the possibility of an additional residency phase at Centrale Fies and a €1000.00 prize (net).