Liveworks Performance Lecture: Mike Parr

Export event | Export network | Feedback | Map | Network | Print
Event Liveworks Performance Lecture: Mike Parr
Venue Carriageworks, Eveleigh, NSW
Umbrella Event Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2015
First Date 30 November 2015
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Acclaimed performance artist Mike Parr will deliver a lecture entitled Performing Heads providing a condensed and intense overview of his practice. Using text, video and image Parr will discuss his performance work: defined in equal measure by its extreme physical acts and an ongoing conceptual interrogation of the use of ideology as a cipher for brutality.

With a career extending over the last 45 years Parr will discuss what he has discovered about surviving isolation, perseverance, content and communication. He will speak to duration, endurance, and the creation of a shared temporal spac
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Lecture
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Mike Parr Performer
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Event Identifier 140844