All good art lives twice; once in the moment, once in the heads of those who were there. Maybe we now have celebrate a third life....documentation that reaches out to those that weren't even born..

Unfortunate that prevailing circumstances prohibited the two launch reception events because it's a brilliant site, resource and record of the work, stunning! More than just a fond memory, NRLA remains a beacon!

You may have saved my elected self isolated, desert(ed) island, secretly longed for, batshit crazy old gals life by gifting this amazing website and archive. I will delve, rediscover and maybe even get nostalgic for real life eccentricity and for those heroes who barf in the face of risk aversion. Thankyou will never be a fitting word, but look I’ve gone and used it anyway. Literally NRLA changed my perceptions of art/life/blood/ forever and your uncompromising vision to open the floodgates to THEIR visions was, is and always will be astonishing. Gratitude, respect.

Such an amazing resource: and an incredible legacy. I’ll look forward to getting stuck into it. Yes, good timing: I’m preparing a list of online resources for students to use remotely – especially as resources including libraries and LADA Study Room are closed, which is panicking dissertation students etc. I’ll definitely share the NRLA archive.

My video has never been publicly seen, it's the only version with III, which was a burial in rock salt. There’s some major performance work on NRLA30.com, excited the website is here, all live events are on hold for now. At least this world happened...

Excellent archive of a unique event

Precious festival, precious archive

So needed now. A contemporary Performance Art History

This is what I need! I miss nrla so much and now I can watch the 30th festival in full online. What an amazing gift...

Reawakened for these dark times. An online selection of NRLA 10 years since it sadly ended. We thought it would always be there. Gathering us up, spitting in our faces, showing us what art should be... So very many brilliant artists, stellar gatherings, conversations, arguments firing us up to face the times that were to come...

In the planning for years, and somehow perfectly timed for self-isolation ... Immerse yourself in the full NRLA experience by turning off the lights, drinking several pints of Tennent's, and sitting beneath some quite loud railway tracks.

Eyeopening magic thanks to the great Nikki Milican x. Golden magical times 🔮🖤

Well I'm stuck in Florida … USofA It's a day after Saint Patrick day, toilet paper has become an incredibly valuable item, news is a rumour of an expected commodity of a hyper- reality … Closure is a common word. I missed the launch, missed sending a virtual message … remotely, missed sending a message in a bottle, sending my love, and compassion. NoW. Is strange times, as time is often strange, let's keep it at that. strange It's drama, and tales, conspiracies, fear, loathing, negative, positive, spaces, non spaces, 30 day durational lock ins. It's a time of performance art live living art lived Recorded I Think we have lived these times in our futures. Remember Futures Thanks a million Nikki for this portal into a unique adventurous landscape. With a curious gang show of humans being human beings being human beings being human. Immensely essential in my life. Love

God, I still miss it all these years later... What a frigging great time it was.

Thanks for the amazing work Nikki and her team have made with the NRLA archive!!! Love for you all.

10 years ago today I was in Glasgow participating in one of the most amazing events of its kind. The website for this event is now available. XOXOX to all the NRLA artists, patrons, students, workers and of course to Nikki Milican.

I have been on the NRLA website a few times in recent days — it is remarkable, and packed with so many good things, greatly exceeding expectations, and feels like a key Live Art resource.

Seminal works trialed, experimented, explored shared. Love in the time of Corona.

The NRLA was one of the most important and influential events in the varied histories of performance art. Its contribution can never be overstated, and it remains a sorely missed part of the performance calendar. This site is a beautiful document of the 30th edition, and a testament to the richness of that history. Stunning work.

Britain’s National Review of Live Art was, quite simply, the most important festival of performance art, live art, new theater, music, and dance in Europe. I have been associated with it from its inception back in 1979. For years its director and guiding light was Nikki Milican, around whose remarkable personality generations of artists from around the world – including many from here in the US – congregated as a sort of international family. The annual meetings of this extraordinary family took place in the uninviting setting of midwinter in Glasgow, Scotland, but its members seemed perfectly happy to gather there year after year. The fact that these reunions included some of the most esteemed performance artists and companies in the world – including Forced Entertainment, Alastair MacLennan, Goat Island, Black Market International, Ron Athey, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña – as well as young artists at the very beginnings of their careers made the NRLA one of the most important forcing houses for new performance anywhere.