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Event

Site: A Forum

Venue

The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW

First Date

8 September 2001

Opening Date

8 September 2001

Last Date

8 September 2001

Dates Estimated

Status

Professional

World Premiere

Description

A day of presentations, discussions and documentation about the perils, pleasures and pitfalls of site-based performance.

From Performance Space database:
"This forum addressed site-based performance making. It featured discussion, presentations and documentation. Theorists, artists and producers teased out the conceptual and logistical challenges of creating site-specific work. It was an extremely useful mapping of a significant area of practice, attracting a capacity crown of a hundred artists, students and architects."

Primary Genre

Other

Secondary Genre

Forum

Organisations

The Performance Space, Production Company
The Performance Space, Presenting Company
The University of Sydney, Performance Studies, Presenting Company
Playworks, Presenting Company
Theatre Kantanka, Speaker
Gravity Feed, Speaker
Urban Theatre Projects, Speaker

Contributors

Name	Function	Notes
Michael Cohen	Speaker
Tess de Quincey	Speaker
Alan Schacher	Speaker
Harley Stumm	Speaker

Further Information

Details of speakers available in Performance Space Database.

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
Newspaper	SMH Metro - 07/09/2001
Performance Space Database

Event Identifier

7228

Dataset

AusStage