SEXES is Performance Space’s festival of visual and performing arts exploring sexuality and gendered identities in contemporary Australia. As part of SEXES - Performance Space has a Live Art program underway featuring Atlanta Eke, Fiona McGregor, Maude Davey, norrie mAy-welby, Parachutes for Ladies, Paul Gazzola, Philip Brophy, Sarah Coconis, Travis de Jonk, WART. Head over to Performance Space’s website …
Artist collective Brown Council reflect on their latest durational performance, Mass Action. At 12pm on Tuesday 28th August Donna Wilkins – the CEO of CWA NSW – dusted off an antique CWA bronze bell, which had been found moments before at the CWA Headquarters in Potts Point, and rang it three times to signal the …
I recently visited Redfern for the first time in several months and clocked the sharp gentrification evidenced by a quick influx of small bars and delicious coffee. Now a place just slightly cheaper to live than Surry Hills, it would be fair to say that perhaps the artistic community are partly the perpetrators of such gentrification, …
Who: Daniel Brine Role: Performance Space AD Office Measurements: 3 x 5m What is live art in Australia? “Its a very difficult question – I’ll tell you what i usually say – it represents a wide range of work that falls between cracks. The term has a specific relationship to the British scene. It becomes …
In a corporate meeting the artist often feels like an imposter, in the studio the non-artist often feels unsure of what the rules are. Everyone feels like they have to drink too much coffee to keep up. Durational Lattes is a bridging exercise. Armed with disgusting wacky shirts Field Theory are RIGHT NOW upping the …
From Monday 31st October to Thursday 3rd November members of the Field Theory collective will be undertaking a four day meetings binge. They will engage members of the Sydney community in discussions around the meaning and relevance of Live Art. The artists will drink one coffee for every meeting they have, to see the outcome …
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 …
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. …
Since Guy Debord and the situationists in the 1960′s, walking has been seen as a political act against urbanism or capitalism or as a more abstract poetic intervention into the rules and structure of the city environment. Drawing together some walks by artists in the recent (and not so recent) past; Performance Space’s 2011 series …
Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home 1. Find the longest way to leave 2. Announce your dramatic departure to be sure there’s no turning back. 3. Sell everything you’ve spent the last ten years collecting on eBay so that you can afford ultra-light, warm, waterproof hiking equipment that you will only use this once. 4. …
At the recent LIVEWORKS at Performance Space, I interviewed Roarawar Feartata (Benjamin Cittadini and Craig Peade) from Melbourne, who were there developing a work I Luv Amanda Crowe 4 eva. Here is a very small portion of that interview, covering a number of previous works that happened in Dandenong and Frankston, which are outer suburbs …
Throughout Liveworks LALA have asked artists to comment on the works they see. The writing may take on any form,and is not necessarily critical or a review. This is our attempt to capture the conversations in bars and foyers after the shows and put them out there for discussion amongst our broader community. Here we …