The Triple Alice Forum pivots around the three cross-cultural multi-disciplinary laboratories of research and development in and around Alice Springs. The forum maintains a flow of changing input and theoretical debate to this website, developing a network of nationwide and global exchange during the three years questioning the relevance and shape of performance in the next century.
Triple Alice Forum: Call for Participants
Over a period of several years, Tess de QuinceyÕs work has explored the ecologies of bodies, space, and place, under the rubric of ÔBodyweatherÕ.
Triple Alice is a three year project initiated by de Quincey, seeking to develop not only the physical, emplaced aspects of BodyWeather training, but to bring a range of thinkers, writers, poets, artists, commentators, broadcasters and other potentially interested people into contact with the workÑboth in a physical sense, by being present for a series of workshop/laboratories in the Central Desert, and in a ÔvirtualÕ sense, by participating in an ongoing electronic forum clustered around the Triple Alice project.
In placing her practice in the Western Desert, in what she describes as Òa burning pointÓ at the intersection of Òprehistory, Indigenous history, post-colonial history and the perspective of global futures which forms contemporary realityÓ de Quincey is forcing herself to negotiate powerful connections with land and place. The Triple Alice electronic forum will reflect on, and provoke, aspects of BodyWeather work, extending beyond the immediate scope of that work while at the same time offering potential avenues and directions for the workÕs development. Ideally, the forum will be a place in which an ongoing dialogue organised around key thematic ideas might proceed; themes clustering around what I see as the fundamental issue addressed by the project: the disjunction between the incitement to a disemplaced spatiality inherent in the discourses of the electronic age, and the ÔactualÕ emplacement of performing bodiesÑin this case, the bodies of Tess de Quincey and her collaborators in the Central Desert and how the tension between the siren song of the virtual and the the increasingly plaintive call for a return to (or the creation of) place might play itself out in cultural, artistic and political practice.
Contributions are sought for posting to a virtual community, reflecting on these issues.
Contributions may take the form of essays, notes, images, reflective writing, poetry, abstracts, performance analyses, manifestos, provocations, references, bibliographies. Our aim is to produce a stimulating archive of such contributions, drawing on a range of experience and backgrounds.
The site will be developed, through the course of Triple Alice, into an interactive site transmitting textual, audio-visual, sonic, graphic and other material, and drawing in remote participation during the course of the Central Desert laboratory. Contributors will be able to subscribe to the interactive website, submit material for posting, and participate in threaded discussions. Contact: Ian Maxwell/Triple Alice Forum editor .