The Long Table on Performing Rights

Lois Weaver and the Live Art Development Agency

The Long Table on Performing Rights is an invitation to explore the role of performance in communicating human rights issues; to look at the new relationships between art and activism; and to debate the responsibilities of artists, organisers, activists and audiences in the understanding, enactment and sustenance of human rights.

Conceived by artist Lois Weaver, The Long Table is inspired by Marleen Gorris’ film Antonia’s Line, in which a dinner table grows longer and longer as Antonia’s family welcomes outsiders and accommodates eccentricity.

Everyone is welcome to come to the table, ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen and watch.