Performance Space is extending its call for proposals from NSW-based Indigenous artists to apply for an IndigeSpace residency. IndigeSpace is an initiative to support the professional development and career pathways of mid-career Indigenous artists.
Performance Space is delighted to welcome Amelia Wallin to the position of Membership & Development Officer. Amelia was previously our Administrator and we are thrilled to have her step into this new role at Performance Space.
Performance Space is looking for a full-time Administrator to join the team in 2012. The deadline for applications is 9am, Monday 20 February, 2012.
Performance Space is seeking volunteers for an exciting project with international artists Walker & Bromwich which will be presented as part of Local Positioning Systems at MCA as part of their re-opening celebrations.
IndigeSpace is an initiative to support the professional development and career pathways of mid-career Indigenous artists. Two NSW-based Indigenous artists will be selected from this open call to lead a team through a three-week interdisciplinary arts residency at Carriageworks. Deadline: 6pm on Monday 13 February 2012.
Performance Space is delighted to announce Local Positioning Systems at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Local Positioning Systems is curated by Performance Space and adds a season of performance, participatory and site-specific art celebrating the launch of the new MCA.
This may be old news, but it's still good news...
Congratulations to our Admin Officer, Amelia Wallin who was appointed as one of the new 2012-2013 directors at Firstdraft...
This week Performance Space said goodbye to our Development Officer, Julia Holderness. We want to thank her for her amazing contribution to the organisation and wish her all the best for the future.
The Performance Space team
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Daniel Brine, our esteemed Director, is leaving to head up The Junction in the UK. We're all incredibly sad to see him go. The Board have announced that Bec Dean and Jeff Khan will be appointed Co-Directors for six months starting in January 2012.
Come along to Benevolent Asylum: just for fun this Saturday 3 December. This is our second last event in our 2011 WALK series. Bring a rain jacket, a warm jumper and some comfy shoes! More info on Benevolent Asylum HERE.
2 for 1 tickets available for Return to Sender, Wed 23 Nov - Sat 27 Nov. Quote 'Geography' at the box office or call 1300 723 038 to book your tickets. See HERE For more information on Return to Sender.
Call for recommendations and submissions for The Live Art Almanac - Volume 3. An international publication of writing on and around Live Art. We welcome all kinds of submissions for The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 - from more traditional forms such as journal essays, newspaper reviews, transcribed interviews, symposium papers, public lectures or book chapters, to digital forms such as blog entries, Facebook pages and Twitter conversations, to even less conventional forms of “publishing” such as emails, diary entries, and letters. Deadline for submissions: 31 Jan 2012
After a successful first season as part of Performance Space’s WALK series in April 2011, The Waterloo Girls is returning for two nights only on Sat 5 and Sun 6 November as part of the NSW Reconciliation Council 'Our Place' series.
Our Director Daniel Brine is leaving Performance Space after 3 amazing years leading the organisation. Daniel is returning to the UK at the end of the year to take up the post of Director at The Junction, Cambridge. We are very sad to say goodbye. But as we roll full steam into our upcoming season Exchange, we can see the fruits of Daniel’s incredible work at Performance Space and excitement for the future he has shaped for us. Heartfelt thanks are due from all of us at Performance Space for his wisdom, generosity and vision. Good luck Daniel!
Book your companion in to record a walk in your local area. Our latest WALK project Laika's Dérive: the dog's deTour offers a chance for inter-species communication. You don't have to reside in the inner west. Spots available for the month of October. More info HERE.
We are looking for volunteer gallery invigilators for two amazing exhibitions The Body is a Big Place and Hokus Pokus (Nov 3 – Nov 26) at CarriageWorks. Email admin@performancespace.com.au if you're keen.
Join us Thursday 29 September at 9pm at the Surry Hills Library for drinks and nibbles for the launch of Perambulators, a Performance Space initiative, commissioning two artist-created city guides.
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The Technical Manager is part of a small Production Unit of two permanent staff, and works with the programming team to deliver a program of high quality work across several spaces. Application deadline is 9am, Tuesday 4 October, 2011.
Who will fight fire with fire? NightTime returns. Curated by Georgie Meagher and Nat Randall over 2 thrilling nights, Nighttime#12:Fight, 10 artists all hoping to 'float like a butterfly and sting like a bee'. For the rest of us JOHNANDPETERCANTEEN's will be serving hot dogs and cold beer. Adriennnnnnnneeeee
This September we are delighted to be presenting three exciting new Australian shows at CarriageWorks, which are touring nationally as part of Mobile States. Mobile States has a particular interest in artists whose practice is concerned with experimentation, research and the investigation of ideas and form. As do we!
NightTime#12:Fight announces its combatants! Local and international artist(s). Duke it out over 2 knockout nights. Tickets available on the door, on the night. Peace.
As part of Green Bans Art Walk on Sat 27 Aug, 6pm there will be a screening of
Pat Fiske’s 1986 documentary Rocking the Foundations, with an introduction from the filmmaker. One of the first women to be accepted as a builders labourer, filmmaker Pat Fiske traces the development of a quite singular union whose social and political activities challenged the notion of what a union should be.
But if you have missed out, never fear! There will be a film screening at the Woolloomooloo PCYC (next door to the Firstdraft Depot) as the closing event of the project.
Saturday 27 August, 6pm
Pat Fiske's Rocking the Foundation, with an introduction from the filmmaker. Also screening is Justin Hewitson Green Bans Art Walk documentary. It will be just like you were there!
We are taking bookings for dog walks! Let your dog create it’s own album of happy snaps.
All Sydney inner west dogs and their companions invited. Secure you and your dog’s spot for this once in a lifetime opportunity.
