Long Table
The Long Table is an "experimental open public forum that is a hybrid performance-installation-roundtable-discussion-dinner-party designed to facilitate dialogue through the gathering together of people with common interests"[1] developed by the artist and academic Lois Weaver.
The idea was inspired by the 1995 Dutch film Antonia's Line, directed by Marleen Gorris. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1]
Development
The Long Table development was funded by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2003, and the Regional Lottery Program and the Arts Council of England in 2004.[2]
Locations
The Long Table has been installed at many location, including Casa de Lapa in Rio de Janeiro; Tanzquartier Wein, Vienna; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow; University of Indiana, Illinois; Queen Mary University of London, Space Gallery, BAC, London International Festival of Theatre, South Bank, London; Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[2]
2010
- Lineages, Memories, Legacies, The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow Symposium, Plymouth Arts Centre Plymouth, England
- The Artist, the People, the Place, Outside Air Festival, QMUL, London
- Putting the People Back in the People’s Palace, Outside Air Festival, QMUL
2009
- Feminism, Red Room Platform: Women’s Edition, London
- Queer Autobiography, Queer Autobiography Conference, King's College London
- Change in America, Performance Studies international, Zagreb, Croatia
- Unfinished Business and Gender and Citizenship, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Encuentro 2009: Staging Citizenship, Bogota, Colombia
References
- 1 2 "Long Table on Live Art and Feminism with Lois Weaver". LADA. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- 1 2 "Lois Weaver" (PDF). Split Britches. Retrieved 13 May 2014.