Site is Set 2015 — Field Theory

Site is Set (2015)

After the success of Site is Set (2014) Field Theory spent most of 2015 grappling with logistical challenges such as ‘would Eureka Tower management sign off on someone running up their stairwell to the very top?’ and ‘why aren’t the Calder Park Speedway bosses getting back to us about taking 100 cars in formation onto their site?’.

Over four weeks four artists presented spectacles, intimate exchanges, endurance performances and interventions at a V8 Supercar track, The largest building in Melbourne, A private home and a Suburban Dance Competition.

Field Theory won a Green Room Award for Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary Performance for Site is Set (2015).

Site is Set (2015) was curated by Jason Maling, Lara Thoms, Martyn Coutts and Jackson Castiglione with Producer Anna Schoo.

Mish Grigor | The Talk

My brother came out after an episode of ‘The L Word’. As the credits closed on Carmen going down on a leggy blonde in a nightclub, he said, “I’m like that. I do that.” My mother and I looked at each other, confused. “Cunnilingis?” I offered, and laughed. “No!” He said, standing up and rolling up his blanket. “Gay. I do gay. I’m gay. I do gay sex.”

Mish Grigor’s ‘The Talk’ was a terribly undomesticated evening. It was an account of what happens when you start talking about sex with your family, what ‘the talk’ is, and what it shouldn’t be.

Lead Artist | Mish Grigor

Matt Prest | Running Up a Skyscraper

Matt Prest ran up the Eureka Tower as fast as he could. When he got to the top, he was in some pain and out of breath. According to those who do this kind of thing on a regular basis, his lungs hurt as much as his legs, as his body went through a 20 minute condensed version of a triathlon. At the top, he presented a significant performance lecture, ‘Running Up A Skyscraper’. The audience took the lift.

Dramaturge | Martyn Coutts
Production | Molly Whelan

Zoe Scoglio | Mass

MASS was a ceremonial gathering tracking the revolutionary potential of people, planets and automobiles. Part drive-in, part guided walk MASS circled the human-made mountains of Calder Park Raceway. A car gazing trip charting deep time, deep space and deep ecology under the full moon.

MASS invited us to consider ourselves as geology in motion – from the metal in our cars to the minerals in our bodies and the iron at our earth’s core. Made for this era of the Anthropocene, when human activity is threatening the natural order of our world, MASS was a journey that farewelled an obsolete system and speculated about what forces might drive us to action when faced with the potential for our own extinction.

Mass won a 2015 Green Room Award for Innovation in Site Specific Performance

Jackson Castiglione | Rainbow Leprechaun!

Audiences joined the party bus to witness a suburban dance competition in all its glory. Jackson Castiglione collaborated with young performers to reconsider ideas of glamour, fame and how children are often sexualized through entertainment. The performance art piece Rainbow Leprechaun! entered into a genuine suburban dance competition, bringing a subversive edge to the culture of jazz shoes, hairspray and high kicks, and placed first in its category.

With | Sylvie Allen, Luella Fitz, Tessa Landry and Ruby Lomas-Mee, Sarah Rodigari + Lara Thoms
Dramaturge | Lara Thoms
Rainbow Design | Lara Tumak

Site is Set (2015)

Site is Set (2016)

Site is Set (2014)