Performance Matters, Performing Idea – Reciprocal Aesthetics7th October3:00-7:30pmToynbee StudiosWith: Ron Athey, Wafaa Bilal, Maaike Bleeker, Shannon Jackson and Julie Tolentino The participation of the spectator in making the meaning of the work of art has been a staple of art and performance practices long before the recent charged debates on ‘relational aesthetics.’ Yet art, however solitary, is arguably always a kind of collaboration and involves itself in some form of exchange. What can be at stake in this exchange? Speakers will examine the notion and limits of the idea that contemporary art and performance is a reciprocal affair. They will ask what gets transacted in contemporary art? What is given and what is taken, what is shared and what cannot be shared?
A year long collaboration between the artists supported by British Council’s Creative Collaboration programme and Arts Council England, March 09 – March 10.
Documentation of homonymous performance installation.
Documentation of the work of Mohamed Abdulla. mov, pdf and ppt files.
A performance on the Australian government’s trade with the Saddam Hussein regime.