Arts House are calling for Expressions of Interest for Season 1 2014 (January to June) with a presentation focus on live art and a CultureLAB development focus on dance. Support through our EOI usually consists of a contribution of up to $30,000 for presentations (including in-kind support) and $12,000 for CultureLAB’s (including in-kind venue support). …
This is Capital City is on sale now at La Boite Indie (May 8-25) – book here. In the urban surrounds of the Kelvin Grove Village, solo audience members embark on a journey into an imagined world called Capital City. Armed with a supplied mobile phone, you are charged by city officials to investigate the …
LALA speaks with Ben Speth about his live project WeTubeLIVE, which was presented by Dancehouse at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne as part of Dance Massive. How did you come to the idea of WeTubeLIve? i worked for many years in nyc in the film/tv business and have made several feature films. back then, making …
Proximity Festival is the first platform in Australia dedicated to the creation and presentation of one-on-one intimate artworks. An artist run initiative led by co-curators James Berlyn and Sarah Rowbottam with provocateur Kelli Mccluskey, Proximity provides critical peer support, encouraging artists from all disciplines to experiment with new modes of practice in the creation of …
The editor of Australian Book Review, announced details of the second ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship. The theme this time is the performing arts. ABR seeks proposals for a cogent, entertaining article on any aspect of the performing arts (music, theatre, dance) – either a profile of an individual or a discursive essay. The article …
Call out for proposals for Critical Animals is now open until April 1st, 2013. Critical Animals is a Creative Research Symposium held annually as part of This is Not Art (TiNA). We are now calling for proposals from individuals and collaborators to participate in Critical Animals 2013. This is Not Art and Critical Animals will …
CALLING ALL LIVE ARTISTS!!! Do you make work that’s hard to describe? We want to hear from you! WHAT IS IT? The Live Art National Network Development project is a call out to all artists and event makers who work in the field of Live Art, performance art, and action art… or whatever you …
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PROPOSALS Performance, the Body and Time in the 21st century 26-27 June 2013 Hosted by: exist www.existenceperformanceart.wordpress.com Queensland College of Art http://www.griffith.edu.au/visual-creative-arts/queensland-college-art Venue: Queensland College of Art, Project Gallery Griffith University 226 Grey Street, South Bank Qld 4101 This two-day symposium will explore issues surrounding Performance, the Body and Time …
LALA talks with Tristan Meecham about the third incarnation of FUN RUN, which opened the Sydney Festival on January 5th this year. His alter-ego ‘Humps’ ran a marathon on a treadmill during the work. Why running? What is it about running that is so important for the work? The important thing about Fun Run is …
Throughout March and April, UK-based media artist Simon Pope will be holding a series of workshops and master classes. Presented by the ADA Network, Pope’s ‘The Netwalking Tour will focus on the themes emerging from Pope’s recent projects such as The Memorial Walks (2008), A Common Third (2010) and Memory Marathon (2010). These projects involve …
Call outs are open to international artists for this London-based performance residency with Gasworks! Residency: 1 June 2013 – 1 September 2013 Open to any non-UK based artist Deadline for application: Monday 4 March 2013 “This new residency at Gasworks aims to support the development of art practices that might not normally thrive within existing …
MCA ARTBAR Curated by Emma Price Feb 22 @ MCA Sydney / 7pm / $15-$20 “Pucker up as Emma Price (The Kingpins) presents a night of heavy petting for music, museum and art lovers alike. Roving performance, video installations and random acts of desire turn the MCA into a temple of love” Featuring: Scott Redford, …
In 2010 Tim Etchells invited participants to join in at the bar of the ICA in London to update Wikipedia with materials about live art and performance, “in a marathon attempt to write the legacy of performance in electronic public space”. Performing Wikipedia was “at once a mediated collaborative performance and an intervention which propels …
Metro Arts in Brisbane have opened the call for applications for the second half of the year for the Performance Maker’s program. The reshaping of the Metro Arts program sees the organisation shifting to better frame hybrid and interstitial work; the Performance Maker’s program is not just about theatre work – it’s a framework for …
Christchurch, New Zealand was the city of my grandfather and the city of my formative art-school experience. From a personal perspective this always made any visit nostalgically heady. I have passed through it several times since the February 2011 quake and each time I have the oddly dislocating experience of looking down streets I vaguely …
The MCA’s ‘external projects’ model (which appears to have grown out of both the need for works happening off site due to recent refurbishments to the MCA buildings, a want to connect with the west of Sydney and also the interest in participatory/public work) is called C3West. The most active and recent project is Lara …
Presented by Performance Space in association with Sydney Festival between 11-13 January 2013, 2pm – 7pm Benched / Martin del Amo and Julie-Anne Long I am an Island / Jess Olivieri with the Parachutes for Ladies Wabi-Sabi Afternoon Tea / Sarah Goffman Some Extra Luck / Kate Mitchell http://www.performancespace.com.au/2012/micro-parks/
Punctum’s Seedpod Initiative closes on the 18th of January, get in quick… Applications are invited from early career and confirmed artists and organisations working in any area of live arts, contemporary performance and installation for our Seedpod sponsorships worth $1,000 each plus up to $1,000 of in-kind technical and management support and one month’s free …
full audio interview here What are you currently working on? I’ve actually just come out of a residency, which was working on a very new idea called ‘Wishing Dark’ … Its starting points come from polar night, isolation, darkness, dark matter and your ‘inner alien’. It’s very immersive – in the sense that I’m working …