Concrete Playground

There’s a large amount of large stuff out there. Houses, shopping centres, cities, steaks, ocean liners, corporations, human bodies/egos … big just keeps getting bigger.

Tiny Stadiums offers a retreat to the downsized. A (mostly) free live art festival centred around charming little Erskineville, the program offers baldness examinations, up-do consultations, public crying, sexy new possibilities urban design, and other big ideas crammed into little spaces.

Highlights include Parachutes for Ladies with their Dance of Death (pictured above), Bababa International’s Park For Planet Earth where the public park is treated as a microcosm of social imagination, Tiger Two Times’ 20-hour performance in a greenhouse and The Wasteland, an experimental music and new media performance based on the five parts of T.S. Eliot’s poem.

For the duration of the festival there will be a DVD library at the Erskineville Town Hall with video art, experimental films and documentation of live performances, and on Saturday afternoon the Tiny guys are also hosting a symposium on the Future of Art where local thinkers and artists will consider ideas such as sustainability, failure, new frontiers, public space, live performance and the audience.

Curated by Quarterbred in residence at PACT, the Tiny Stadiums Festival is launching Tuesday 23 February on the steps of Erskineville Town Hall. It’s going to be huge. Full program here.