For You Are Here we are delighted to be working with Campbelltown Arts Centre and Next Wave to co-commission and develop through residencies, Matt Prest’s new installation-based performance Hole In The Wall.

Nigel Helyer’s GhosTrain is a project in three parts which began as a series of oral-history sound works based on the Eveleigh Rail Yards, that recently aired on Radio National. Helyer’s work with Performance Space involves a leitmotiv sound installation in the CarriageWorks foyer supported by a City of Sydney cultural grant, and finally a residency with Performance Space that will result in a locative media audio-walk for the CarriageWorks site, made permanently available later in 2010 as an iPhone application.

In the lead-up to the Biennale of Sydney, Performance Space is also supporting the development and rehearsal of a Biennale commissioned performance work by Perth-based artists Pilar Mata Dupont and Tarryn Gill which will premiere at a site-specific location in Sydney. After recently premiering a full-length musical theatre work Heart of Gold at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the artists, who practice across photomedia and performance are in the early stages of developing a narrative-based choreography for the event, working with local dancers.

In preparation for You Are Here Alisdair Macindoe, Martin del Amo, and Alexandra Harrison all had residencies with Performance Space in 2009. In much the same way, our second season of residency programming for 2010 is focused on new contemporary dance work in development for Performance Space’s future program.