In conjunction with Kings Cross Festival, ALASKA Projects presents- HIGH HORSE RIDER This is your time to speak, to voice your opinion about what matters to you. No subjects are prescribed, all possible points of view are free to be expressed and argued without fear of persecution. Having in saying this, there is no immunity …
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 …
Some months ago LALA asked me to write down my impressions on the League Of Resonance – an ambitious live art project that occurred in Melbourne from December 2010 to April 2011. As I’m a slow writer and pedantic academic, it’s taken me a little time to settle on my response. Currently I’m writing a …
Dudes, Last weekend I went to Open Engagement in Portland Oregon USA. The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students, this year’s conference features internationally …
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. …
Field Theory was dreamed up by a group of artists with varying interests and practices. It is fair to say that all of us are interested in different ways in which to engage people in experiences of meaning. If that sounds a bit vague it is because the actual parameters of the work that we …
Three things have happened in the last month that I think will forward the discussion around Live Art in the country and region… The first is Visible City, I won’t go into it as I was intimately involved in the project and it really is for others to speak or write about in more depth …