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. Two artists will be selected to lead a team through a three-week interdisciplinary arts residency at Carriageworks.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 6pm on Friday 17 February 2012.

For more information and to download the proposal form click HERE.

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. She is currently busily rolling out our brand-new Membership scheme, so you may hear from her very soon!

Performance Space is looking for a full-time Administrator to join the team in 2012.

The Administrator is the first point of contact between Performance Space and the public. This includes telephone, email and live queries from artists interested in working with Performance Space, peer organizations, funders, and members of the public regarding our program. The Administrator co-ordinates the general running of the office, is responsible for receivables and payables, assisted by a bookkeeper (2 days/week), and reports directly to the General Manager.

For more information about the position, please contact Amelia Wallin, Performance Space’s Administrator on (02) 8571 9111 or admin [at] performancespace.com.au.

DOWNLOAD JOB DESCRIPTION HERE (pdf)

The deadline 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. Opportunities are available for production interns, an artist assistant and site invigilators to work on realising Celestial Radio — a radio station housed on a sailing boat, broadcasting a psychedelic hour-long show inspired by Sydney Harbour. For more information and to register your interest please contact admin [at] performancespace.com.au

Under the Radar:

•   is an opportunity for independent artists and collectives;
•   is a programme of work that indulges in the risky, the dangerous, the quirky, the offbeat and the unthinkable;
•   draws work from all art forms including music, visual arts, and performance;
•   presents works in spaces that deepen the conversation between audience and art;
•   provides a new way to look at spaces in Brisbane;
•   exposes the unspoken, unrepresented and unconventional;
•   is an opportunity for Brisbane Festival audiences to interact and engage with multiple versions of art and art making.

In 2012 Under the Radar’s programme will consist of:

Venue programming consisting of a collection of independent works that are situated in a variety of spaces across the festival map. Contemporary work (premiere and existing) that experiments with new ideas via form, content and context is a highly sort after. Under the Radar encourages artists to think carefully about their work in regards to venue and design, interested in work that seeks to present work in non traditional spaces and venues.  The work may exist as seasons of performance work, visual art exhibitions, one off events etc.

The Out the Back programme a multi art form open air car park and bar which acts as the alternative festival hub. This programme will include performance, music event and exhibitions. This programme is also interested in supporting a number of emerging curators to bring new ideas to life as one off events that would be entwined in the larger programme.

Public Space consisting of a collection of installation, live art, roving and sculpture works that exist in public space and invite an interaction with audience, existing ephemerally or throughout the whole festival.

Development a small collection of development opportunities, workshops, talks, networks and critiques

The programme will be drawn from the open application process as well via independent research by the Under the Radar producer.

For more information and to lodge your application 
simply visit the Brisbane Festival website – brisbanefestival.com.au

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE THURSDAY 1 March 2012 6pm (QLD Time)

Groundwork and PACT invite applications from emerging artists for inclusion in the Tiny Stadiums Live Art Weekend. The Live Art Weekend will be presented on June 2-3, 2012, in Erskineville village and surrounds.

Groundwork are seeking applications for bold, immersive and site-specific works by emerging artists that respond to the concepts centre and margins. Artists working across the disciplines of performance, dance, new media, sound and visual arts are encouraged to apply.

Experimental, interdisciplinary and community engaged works will be prioritised, as will projects that critically consider their location or context and shift how the community access public space. Artists living outside of Sydney as well as local artists are encouraged to apply.

For more information and to download the application form click HERE.

Application deadline: Monday 13th Feb, 5pm.

Email your application to assistant@pact.net.au with “Live Art Weekend Submission” and “your name” in the subject line.

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. IndigeSpace is underpinned by four principles: a focus on mid-career artists; collaboration; encouraging cross artform working; and a commitment to pay artists’ fees. The residencies will also have the support of Emerging Indigenous Producer, Alison Murphy-Oates. IndigeSpace is part of a strategy to create stronger, sustainable connections between Indigenous artists and Performance Space’s presentation program.

Deadline:: 6pm on Monday 13 February 2012.

For more information and to download the proposal form click HERE.

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 major project is the first ever partnership between Performance Space and the MCA. See HERE for more information.

Call for recommendations and submissions for The Live Art Almanac – Volume 3. An international publication of writing on and around Live Art. Deadline for submissions: 31 Jan 2012

The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 is a not-for-profit publication, produced and published by the Live Art Development Agency (London, UK) in partnership with Live Art UK, Performance Space 122 (New York, USA), Performance Space (Sydney, Australia), La Pocha Nostra (San Francisco, USA), and Maska (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 will draw together all kinds of writing about and around Live Art, and aims to be both a useful resource and a great read for artists, writers, students and others interested in the field of interdisciplinary, performance-based art.

The first Live Art Almanac was published in the UK by the Agency in partnership with Live Art UK in 2008. Live Art Almanac Volume 2 (2011) was an international partnership between the Agency, Live Art UK, Performance Space 122, and Performance Space – organisations committed to the development of Live Art and contemporary performance in the UK, USA and Australia.

More information HERE.

Local Positioning Systems brings performance and live art to the MCA in many different guises and across several locations. The project takes as its starting point the newly-reconfigured architecture of the MCA, and the blurring of the threshold between the museum and its surrounding environment and communities. Taking place in the museum’s forecourt, first aid room, library, education facilities and the surrounding landscape of Sydney Harbour and The Rocks, Local Positioning Systems explores new ways audiences and artworks can relate to each other and how the MCA can engage with the broader social and built environment in which it is situated. Artists include: Julie-Anne Long, Jason Maling, Bennett Miller, Stuart Ringholt, Latai Taumoepeau, Lara Thoms, Walker & Bromwich (UK).

Celestial Radio
Walker & Bromwich

Dachshund U.N.
Bennett Miller

The Experts Project
Lara Thoms

i-Land X-isle
Latai Taumoepeau

Physician
Jason Maling

Preceded by a tour of the show by artist Stuart Ringholt
6-8pm (the artist will be naked.Those who wish to
join the tour must also be naked. Adults only)
Stuart Ringholt

Val, the Invisible
Julie-Anne Long