Current Residencies

SHAMELESSLY GLITZY WORK Winners of this year's Melbourne Fringe Festival, POST a dynamic trio of seriously funny-bleak performers, will develop their next work about the art of lying. POST have dug into the psyche of hyper-controlled femininity and will double this with a look at the science of lying, the physicality of disguising the truth and the relationship between the deceiver and the deceived.
ARTISTS Zoe Coombs Marr, Natalie Rose, Mish Grigor

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD In partnership with the Redfern Community Centre Keg de Souza, Zanny Begg and SquatSpace will work with community participants to build a picture of the gentrification underway in Redfern. Using collaborative processes this residency will underpin the research for a larger global art exhibition for Performance Space in 2009, to capture people's experience of neighbourhoods around the world.
ARTISTS Zanny Begg, Keg de Zouza and SquatSpace

BRIWYANT Led by director and choreographer Vicki Van Hout, the residency is the second stage of a project to research and develop a work combining traditional dance, movement generated soundscapes and visual vignettes inspired and influenced by the repetitious 'b ARTISTS Sophie Watchers, Elias Constantinople, Raghav Handa, Vicki Van Hout


LADYKILLERS VS HOPE DIAMOND: BASED ON A TRUE STORY Performance makers meet swamp rock band in a collaboration featuring writer Stefan Lazczuk. This residency of Adelaide and Melbourne based artists is the beginning of a new performance project, investigating the theme of 'fathers' using narrative threads in Hope Diamond's songs and the theatrical language of Ladykillers. Visit basedonatruestory.com.au to contribute.
ARTISTS Zoe Barry, Steve Griffiths, Stefan Laszczuk, Gaelle Mellis, Jed Palmer, Astrid ill, Ingrid Voorendt

A SIDE TO ONE In partnership with Critical Path, Craig Bary and Lisa Griffiths will continue their exploration of dance and projection, joined by sound and video artist Adam Synnott. First seeded at Critical Path in 2007 through the Responsive Research Program, this residency will enable a creative development of a score, consolidating a duet for screen and live space.
ARTISTS Craig Bary, Lisa Griffiths, Adam Synnott

SARAH GOFFMAN Sydney-based Sarah Goffman makes installations, arrangements and objects of scale, light and colour from locally sourced collections of synthetic, organic and mass-produced disposable materials, interlacing ideas of beauty and narrative with the raw fabri
ARTIST SARAH GOFFMAN