Performance Art / Live Art & Performance
Installation Art
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The term ‘installation art’ has been used since the 1960s to designate art practice which explicitly aims to include and refer to its site and context as a crucial constituent of its meanings.
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A work that built on Baker’s experience of using autobiographical materials in performances such as My Cooking Competes, blending this with a commentary on domesticity, motherhood and art.
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Back to Back Theatre creates new forms of contemporary performance imagined
from the minds and experiences of a unique ensemble of actors with disabilities,
giving voice to social and political issues that speak to all people.
Based in the regional centre of Geelong, the company is one of Australia’s
most globally recognised and respected contemporary theatre companies. Seeking
to make a body of work that exists in repertoire across time, the company tours
extensively locally, nationally, and internationally.
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A performance piece which saw Baker open her kitchen to the public and display a set of live actions, making performance from everyday tasks which nevertheless require skill, dexterity and endurance.
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let’s take a
walk is an audio journey around the
Barbican that starts with a question from a
stranger hoping to take us out of our social
bubble.
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let’s take a
walk is an audio journey around the
Barbican that starts with a question from a
stranger who might take us out of our social
bubble.
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let’s take a
walk is an audio journey around the
Barbican that starts with a question from a
stranger who might take us out of our social
bubble.
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mountaineering explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.
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mountaineering explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.
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Documentation of the dance performance
of Payau # 2 Waterproof, staged in the Indonesia
Dance Festival 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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A public domain
theatre show,
part voyeuristic meditation, part urban
thriller, it unfolds amidst the high volume
pedestrian traffic of a public
space.
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A look at the science behind human perception through performance lectures,
surround sound, hidden televisions, and sweeping panoramic views of the London
skyline.
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A look at the science behind human perception through performance lectures,
surround sound, hidden televisions, and sweeping panoramic views of the London
skyline.
Commentary
by Calvert, Dave
Reflections on Ganesh versus the Third Reich by Dave Calvert discusses the
work created by back to back.
Commentary
by Calvert, Dave
Reflections on small metal objects by back to back.
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Environmental theatre, like site-specific work, aims to alter the conventional spatial practices of performance and to enhance the performance’s engagement with its space and site of production.