“In my live art I communicate directly with my audience creating situations and possibilities for them to interact and time to positively contemplate their place in creating harmony within their surrounding environments both natural and urban.”

“Live art refers to the life of a work of art from inception of the idea, through to the making of a public exhibition and its legacy through spontaneous and unpredictable interaction of living organisms, such as people and live elements of the natural world”

East-West, Spirit Earth Exhibition by Panni Poh Yoke Loh The exhibition was held at Sylvester Space, Sheffield, October 6th-October 21st 2007. Members of the public were invited to view the exhibition and invited to participate in the duet conversation tables and public installation of thoughts and prose. Click here to see the full details of the exhibition. Photograph opposite by Panni Poh Yoke Loh

Tea Talks Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale Tea Talks Artists Residency Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, U.K. 2006 I held tea talks with people of diverse backgrounds at the 7 exhibition sites of the work from 21 different countries from Asia. The art was the live element plus video and photography and paintings that recorded the interactions. During the 3 month residency local school children were also involved and as a finale scattered the dried tea leaves from all the tea talks as healthy compost into the earth of an especially planted tree to commemorate the residency. .
Tea Talks	Tea Talks 1Tea Bags-Tea Talks- installation, Waterloo Pavillions Blackburn, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle
Tea Talks	Tea Talks 2Tea Talks-Anjum Anwar, Lacashire Council of Mosques and Dean Christopher Armstrong Blackburn Cathedral, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle
Tea Talks	Tea Talks 3Tea Talks, Artists talk, Waterloo Pavillions Blackburn, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle
Tea Talks	Tea Talks 4Tea Talks, Opening Event Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Fukuoka Asian Art Trienalle

Another City? On my artist’s residency at the Chinese Arts Centre I was struck by the dominance of the built environment and also staying in a white cube gallery my own need for the natural world. Building a garden in the space I immediately felt more alive. I tended daily to the plants and trees that bore fragrances traditionally from the west in lavender and rosemary and from the east in sweet gardenia’s. Visitors were initially impressed by the beauty and fragrance of what they assumed to be an eastern garden but on closer inspection discovered the miniature clay building s of Manchester’s landmarks such as ‘Manchester City L’ Manchester City Art Gallery’ , Urbis as well as Chinese pagoda’s and bridges all dominated by the natural world. .
Manchester City Library	Another City ?Manchester City Library
Pagoda	Library

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Meditating	Meditating on the City This live art piece was carried out to consider the real challenge of gaining peace and balance within the urban environment and to create an opportunity for onlookers to consider stopping. Photographs by Hafsah Naib for a Decibel Arts Council commission 2004

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Peace Prayer Flags	Peace Prayer Flags Postern Tower Contemporary Art Gallery, York 2004.This installation was created by interacting with the people of Sheffield and York to make marks on a flag whilst thinking of peace. I stitched them together in the formation of Prayer Flags to send out this good energy into the world but in positive respect of the people of Tibet’
Peace Prayer Flags	Peace Prayer Flags

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AbbeyField Park	Burngreave is a vibrant rich area of many cultures and to celebrate this I initiated this festival in and organised it until 2004. For me creating the Abbeyfield Park Multicultural Festival was like painting a painting, it came from the same creative source. It was a colourful work of live art that I am very pleased to say lives on and grows. The joy of the festival was in seeing people of diverse cultural backgrounds meeting together in celebration a local green space, as they took their important place in its creation.

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Peace Servings	Peace Servings Ellesmere Green, Sheffield 2002 I directed videoed and photographed this event on Ellesmere Green, Sheffield, U.K. with 20 different people of different ethnicities, cultures and faiths men and women to demonstrate and express the desire of people different from one another to meet with each other, gain understanding and to create peace and harmony.
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