You Are Here is the title of Performance Space’s first two season for 2010. The seasons of performance, dance and installation explore our place in the world, the landscapes in which we live and the times of our lives.

You Are Here is our first concept-led season in which we have brought together works across artforms which share common themes.  We’re interested in what it means to ‘curate’ a season of performance and visual art and we have asked ourselves: how do we make sense of and provide a frame for the work we present?

The works in You Are Here respond to questions about where we are located in place and time.  The title refers to both physical location but also how the world around us changes over time.

Location and place are strong threads running through You Are Here and are the main focus of our first season.  The interests of artists span from Nigel Helyer’s investigation of our immediate location at CarriageWorks, through explorations of Rosie Dennis, Martin del Amo, Mike Mullins and William Yang of  the cities in which many of us live, to the installations of Patrick Ronald and Shannon McDonell, and Alex Kershaw which consider rural environments and their ever-present place in the Australian psyche.

The first season of You Are Here coincides with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival and we’re pleased to have programmed performances by four queer artists.  The works of Martin del Amo, Rosie Dennis, Alexandra Harrison and William Yang draw out threads of queer lives and showcase a diversity of queer voices.

You Are Here is also an opportunity for us to present the work of a new generation of performance makers.  New works by Alexandra Harrison, Alisdair Macindoe and Matt Prest and Clare Britton reward us with fresh perspectives on relationships between family and friends.

These works sit alongside four key works which frame the journeys of life by examining the marking and passing of time as defined by generations of people.  The works of William Yang, Mike Mullins, Nigel Helyer and Urban Theatre Projects are central to You Are Here because they contribute to our understanding of our location not only in place but in time.

Performance Space’s You Are Here season is distinguished from the Sydney based art collective which is incidentally also called You Are Here.  We love their work, find out more at youarehere.me.