Project Socrates, CIA Studios

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 …

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Starfuckers

Star******S Arts House Melbourne 6-8 September 2012 Presented by Arts House, Laura Caesar and Malcolm Whittaker. Performed by Laura Caesar and Malcolm Whittaker. Photos – Ponch Hawkes Reviewed by Jason Maling I once fell asleep in a durational performance and I think it improved the work. Not because it was boring, it was going all night and …

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Exist-ence 2011

I am here for two days, it is hot and sticky, a hailstorm thrashed the Brisbane at about 6pm and there is a Live Art/Performance Art/Action Art Festival at the Powerhouse. Malcolm Whittaker and Georgie Meagher Malcolm and Georgie created a thought experiment. They opened up my imaginative brain space and enabled me to transform, …

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Dear Audience,

Dear theatre audience, This is it. I am standing backstage. Between me and you is a door, slightly ajar. When I hear my name announced I will walk through this door, across the stage and into the spotlight. I will strut and I will pose (as best as I can). I will meet your gaze …

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a lovers discourse

calling participants for an international art love project – a loverʼs discourse To be loved is to be the object of concern. Our presence noted. Our identity understood. Our views are listened to. Our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs ministered to. In love we enjoy protection from the benevolent gaze of others. …

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