Occupy This Zizek! My new Potts Point Apartment! The following text was recorded by Agatha Gothe -Snape, in conversation with me, Sarah Rodigari, about the Field Theory Zizek Excursion, held in my new Potts Point apartment on October 15th 2011. There is a lot to be said about Zizek and Live Art. Actually, I don’t …
On November 5th 2011, Field Theory invited Shane Haseman to give a lecture on Live Art from his perspective, the discipline of painting. Shane is a recent Doctor of Philosophy. He wrote his paper on something like the Situationist and Marxism but we’re not 100% on the details, he’s an elusive man. Prior to this …
Placing artists in residence within ‘industry’ is often criticised for being too short term to allow the time for artists and employees to form rich relationships or to collaborate. Artists can feel ostracised in a new environment where employees have not been properly briefed and may be resent having to perform extra artistic ‘duties’. Artists …
This Thursday Next Wave Festival’s Artistic Director Emily Sexton will lead a jaunt across Melbourne to recent public sites for live art, exploring questions around how festivals navigate audience engagement with site-specific work. Discussions will range from politics, to spectacle, to community participation, the challenges of working in public space, and a whole lot …
On Monday 3rd October, A group of interdisciplinary practitioners journeyed to First Run at Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne First Run is a bi – monthly event inviting artists working in and across the field of contemporary dance to share new explorations in their current practice. Performances could involve a segment from a work in …
Field Theory will be hosting a tutorial on the Live Art with prominent artist and academic Shane Haseman. Over a period of an hour we will question, discuss and debate this elusive genre. Those who attend may be asked to prepare by reading a suggested essay. Monday October 31 7pm Capacity is limited RSVP essential …
If you missed seeing Slavoj Žižek speak at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas last week in Sydney or you saw him and still want more, Field Theory will be hosting a private screening of Žižek on Saturday October 15 at 7pm. Zizek! is a feature documentary exploring the eccentric personality and esoteric work of …
LALA invites you to take part in a meeting of minds. Lucy Guerin Inc. hosts a night of work called First Run. This night is for dance work or movement-based practice being developed to be shown and then discussed by an interested audience. First Run is hosted by Brooke Stamp and Luke George. First Run …
We would like to invite you to the second LALA Excursion. The excursions will be a series of sojourns into art and non-art related research. Excursion #1 Who Needs Live Art? A salon featuring the first development of Strange Passions by triage, a rant about Live Art led by Barry Laing & Jana Perkovic and …
Sam Routledge is a performance artist who works in puppetry and visual theatre. He also enjoys making late 80′s/early 90′s mixtapes for people about to get on planes. He has been in Hobart working on the development of the 35th Anniversary of Salamanca Arts Centre‘s founding. As part of this project he has undertaken a …