Performance Space

Performance Space is Australias leading organisation for the development and presentation of interdisciplinary arts. Performance Space is an arts development agency supporting the exploration and experience of new forms, new ideas, and new contexts.

Our artistic focus is on arts informed by performance, which draw their influences from across the performing and visual arts. We encourage art which explores the intersections between artforms, questions assumptions about the relationships between artist and audience, and engages with the concerns of the ever-evolving society in which we live.

Our Development and Presentation Program is made-up of curated concept-led seasons of performances and exhibitions. We also undertake residencies enabling artists to creatively develop their practice, and contextualizing initiatives including discussions and publications.

Our Strategic Initiatives address areas of development which extend Performance Spaces reach and influence. These projects are often about developing new audiences (from local to international), assisting otherwise excluded artists, or nurturing new artistic practices.

We act as an advocate for the interdisciplinary arts sector - speaking out for artists and audiences and the infrastructures that support them.

Performance Space is:

-:- Committed: to interdisciplinary arts informed by performance, which draw their influence from across the performing and visual arts.

-:- Ambitious: to enable artists to reach their potential, to enrich lives of audiences, and to be a world-leader in interdisciplinary arts.

-:- Inclusive: of artistic ideas, forms, and contexts, and the diversity and differences of our artists and audiences.

-:- Collaborative: with artists, arts organisations, communities, government and other stakeholders in pursuit of mutual goals.

-:- Strategic: in business; balancing the day-to-day, entrepreneurial opportunities and long-term aspirations.

Performance Space is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW; and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Performance Space is the anchor tenant at CarriageWorks, Sydneys home for contemporary arts. Performance Space is a member of Contemporary Art Organisations of Australia (CAOS) and Mobile States, Touring Contemporary Performance Australia.