Malik Nashad Sharpe: Horror for the Live Context

Live Art Listening

Audio documentation of a lecture by Malik Nashad Sharpe on the subject 'Horror for the Live context' Artworks referenced and shared by Malik: 1. 'Shoot', Chris Burden, 1971. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZIWs3Dl1k 2. 'Carcasse', Piotr Pavlensky, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKpB0eAKtg 3. 'Rhythm 0', Marina Abramovic, 1974 https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5177 4. 'American Psycho', directed by Mary Harron, 2000 5. 'Nope', Directed by Jordan Peele, 2022 6. '10 Cloverfield Lane', directed by Dan Trachtenberg, 2016 7. 'Saw', directed by James Wan, 2004 8. 'Le Manoir de Diable', directed by Goerge Meillies, 1890 9. 'All of us are Dead', directed by Lee Jae-kyoo; Kim Nam-su, 2022 10. 'Untitled Nostalgia 3', Tiraan Willemse, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RidYGnnYZRQ 11. 'Presage', Elie Autins, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_lWSh_Zr4 12. 'Goner', Malik Nashad Sharpe, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DbxNw-QiSI Malik Nashad Sharpe – otherwise known as Marikiscrycrycry – has been investigating the emergence of horror in contemporary live performance as well as the use of it in his own practice. During his Study Room residency at LADA he approached horror as a research tool to tease out an alternative tradition of choreographic practice that contains social resonance and fantastical outcomes, and constitutes a suggestive and speculative lens through which performance can be contextualised. Culminating his residency, this talk will highlight some of the utility of making horror as a performance practice, and explore the genre’s potential as a framework for seeing, reading and working with contemporary live performance.