SPRING CURSIVE
Come on a guided nature walk, followed by an experimental word-painting workshop with artist Barbara Campbell and calligrapher Franz Cheung to draw forth the coming season. ...more
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
Take your seat in a Cabaret style setting as a Torch Singer, a War Correspondent, an Orator and a Stand-Up Comedian relate tales of torturous fear and dissatisfaction with their place in the modern world. ...more
THE LAST SUPPER
Sitting around a dinner table in a Da Vinci-like mise-en-scène, be guided by three charming hosts in a compelling tale of real and imagined death scenarios. ...more
Volunteer Callout: Micro Parks 11-13 January
Performance Space is looking for invigilators for our upcoming public art season Micro Parks, part of the 2013 Sydney Festival from 11-13 January 2pm – 7pm. ...more
OUR ONLINE PAYMENT SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY DOWN
Thank you for your interest in Performance Space. Unfortunately our payment system will be offline for maintenance from 4pm Dec 12 to 12pm Dec 13. We thank you for your patience and apologise for the inconvenience. ...more
MICRO PARKS: Some Extra Luck
Kate Mitchell replaces one of Newtown’s tiniest parks with a miraculous field of four-leaf clovers, for curious passers-by to discover. ...more
MICRO PARKS: Wabi-Sabi Afternoon Tea
Sarah Goffman invites visitors into a specially designed tea pavilion in a micro park on Erskineville Road. ...more
MICRO PARKS: I am an Island
Jess Olivieri and the Parachutes for Ladies meditate on what it means to be stranded on a tiny island of green grass amidst a noisy, chaotic meeting point ione of n Sydney’s Inner West. ...more
MICRO PARKS: Benched
Performed by Marty (Martin del Amo) and Julie (Julie-Anne Long), Benched is two intertwining dance solos, performed in a restricted space, in direct proximity to one another. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: Absolutely Positive Party
Wrapping up these two weeks of stimulating brain fodder on a high, Sydney’s own electronic music legends Stereogamous present Absolutely Positive Party - a World AIDS Day celebration with music, colour, movement and you. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: High Tea & Strumpets
Sex workers from Scarlet Alliance and Sex Workers Outreach Project will host a hatter’s high tea party with a twist. Like Alice you will be able to glimpse an alternate wonderland. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: INCITE – Dragged Up
Taking SBS’s Insight program as inspiration, Pauline Pantsdown will be asking a live audience the tough and sissy questions. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: SEXES Keynote Lectures
Professors Anne Marsh and Ed Scheer go head-to-head in our Keynote Lectures, covering (and uncovering) gender in the visual arts. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: Erotic Fan Fiction
Eddie Sharp has lined-up some lewd, rude and erotic readings by Australian writers including Linda Jaivin, Andrew Frost, Annaleise Constable and Sunil Badami. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: x3
X3 is a night of performances exploring the abstract, the grotesque and the monstrous possibilities of the human body from three very different perspectives. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: Queer as Fuck, Punk as Fuck
Fuck shit up and fight back in a night of queer punk and performance that says, ‘Fuck the assimilationist gaystream agenda that aspires to an equality that is neither queer, politicized, meaningful or inclusive’. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: Dirty Movie Night
Lex Lindsay, the former director of Mardi Gras’ Queer Screen festival in Sydney and a current programmer of the Cockatoo Island Film Festival, has seen a lot of movies in his time. ...more
CLUBHOUSE: Women Count In The Arts & Her Rights at Work
This analytical double bill takes a look at different expressions of Australian culture and representation of women. ...more
PSpace Catalogues
P Performance Space catalogues are now on sale! Awfully Wonderful (2011) 64 pages, colour reproductions. Price: $10 Exhibition exploring the intersection of science fiction and contemporary art. Curated by Bec Dean and Lizzie Muller. Featuring artists Philip Brophy, Eugene Carchesio, Hayden Fowler, Ian Haig, Haines/ ...more
SEXES EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Our SEXES exhibition catalogue is now on sale - for only $10! Featuring: a Three-Headed-Triple-Sexed Curatorial Introduction, essays 'The Forms of Androgyny' (Benjamin Law), 'Contemporary Australia: Feminism' (Catriona Moore and Kelly Doley), 'I have a confession to make' (Christos Tsiolkas), 'Desperately Seeking Straight-Acting Queers' (Daniel Mudie Cunningham), artists biographies and detailed description of exhibited works. ...more
2013 Annual Appeal
Get exclusive access to Performance Space events throughout 2013 with our annual Membership. For $100 you’ll enjoy free tickets to six new shows, plus have the opportunity to engage in artist led tours, curator talks, residency showings, private viewings, previews and one-off gatherings, all for members only. ...more
MICRO PARKS
Dotted through Sydney’s inner-city suburbs of Newtown and Erskineville is an array of mysteriously tiny parks. Often sited on housing blocks and in residential areas, these miniscule public spaces are puzzlingly small and sometimes under-utilised by their local communities. ...more
Unlike Anything Before It: Whelping Box
“Unsettling”, “deeply emotive”, “visceral” and “profound” were a few of the adjectives being thrown around. Perhaps the most accurate and straight-to-the-point statement, however, came from our Co-Director, Jeff Khan: “I have seen A LOT of things in my life, but this (performance) is like nothing I have EVER witnessed before!” which pretty much sums up all we really need to know before deciding to attend a worthy arts event. ...more
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