As team PSpace emerges from the last ten days, I almost can’t believe what just took place. Liveworks 2022 was not a return to the before-times, instead, this year’s festival was unlike any other. Our amazing hybrid program - presenting in-venue, streamed and on demand exceeded my expectations and delivered brilliant, ambitious experimental art.
Over the course of Liveworks 2022, we presented 20 different works and showcases involving over 100 artists from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. We continued to support artists in presenting multi-disciplinary incipient performance experiments both in-venue and online. We offered an expansive free program for audiences, spanning large scale installation, an immersive queer club space and an affecting installation with performance activation. Hosting four curated conversations featuring artists and specialists gave us a deep-dive into the radical new thinking and tools required to build a more equitable and sustainable future. On top of this, Liveworks 2022 held a world premiere, for you and your plant to attend, presented two electric solo dance works, and a whole lot more!
And a big shout out to departing Artistic Director and CEO - Jeff Khan, I am overjoyed that he was able to do this Liveworks festival with us - a bold splash into a new world of programming after the past two years, and this Liveworks is a nod to all the incredible work Jeff has done with PSpace for over a decade! Thanks JK - we are going to miss you!
While this festival was not a return, it was a reminder. A reminder of the incredible community we’ve built over eight years of Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art. A reminder of the power of performance, the infinite potential of art, and the importance of spaces like ours. We took the lessons of the last few years and produced a festival we previously would never have imagined. Thank you for being part of this journey. We can’t wait to see what’s next.
Vanessa Lloyd
Performance Space CEO
