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The Academy of Youth Mythology took place at the Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank. During a week of activities led by artist Lucy Panesar, 30 young people from the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project set out to discuss and destroy the myths about young people and youth culture using live art and interventions.
INNIT group (INSTITUTE NURTURING NAIVE ILLITERATE TEENS) asked an audience to respond and add their own youth myths to paper. This was then turned into a choreographed performance inspired by a Bob Dylan video.
AINT group's (ANTI IRATE NAGGY TEENAGERS) performance was inspired by the #taym on twitter instead of virtual following they decided to actually follow random members of the public and then ask them to respond on #taym.
FAFS group (FEDERATION AGAINST FOOT SHUFFLERS) created an event inspired by a teenagers ability to drag their feet!
SAGGY group (SOCIETY AGAINST GUNG-HO GANG YOUTH) created their own friendly gang. including a specially improvised gang initiation ritual and gang uniform.
TAP group (TEETOTALLING ADOLESCENT PROMOTION) took their name literally and decided the youth of today needed to experience a higher level of food and drink by taking over a lift at the Royal Festival Hall with their performance.
Friday the last day of the Academy of YOuth Mythology was a chance for the myth technicians to perfect their work and decide how to show it to a group of live art curators and artists. Lively debate was had about the documentation of live art and how it should be shown.
