]performance s p a c e [ is a point of syntheses where, through and beyond actions, questions of community, support, generation(s), re-generation and the place or position of performance is contemplated and rendered visceral.This action is B E Y O N D N E C E S S I T Y - a week long programme housing some of the most radical, contemporary and influential makers of live work to date.
Performance, film and discussion will form a supporting action, between generations and geographies; presenting, acknowledging and celebrating a cross-section of artists investigating performance process, Live and body based fine art practice.
Through bringing together multiple praxis from various generations, philosophies and geographies - this programme hopes to challenge, sustain and accommodate, a thriving performance community often found outside other more established and formalised institutions of art and culture.
Throughout the programme we shall be considering the influence, role and fluxing nature of such institutions and their relationship to (sub)cultures, fringe and the renegade. While also investigating further modes and sites where in performance may be viewed as an engaging, inciting and inescapable discourse of society.
B E Y O N D N E C E S S I T Y is a fundraising event. Our aim is the sustainability of ]performance s p a c e [ as a environment dedicated to the cultivation and dissemination of both emergent and established practioners. Our opening event and subsequent activity has been free in order to maintain accessibility and welcome the local community - However, now we need your help.
Radical and challenging work needs a community; a community needs radical and challenging work - This is B E Y O N D N E C E S S I T Y.
