Gretel Taylor presents and publishes internationally on performance and art in relation to place, including several articles that refer to projects undertaken by BodyPlaceProject:
Taylor, G. (2025, October). Revealing and Reckoning: Curating Place-Responsive Performance on Country. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE PERFORMING SPACE 2023 CONFERENCE. https://eproceedings.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ps/article/view/8394/7588
Taylor, G. (2024). Dancing Restless Histories. In The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance (pp. 453-464). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003283034-40/dancing-restless-histories-gretel-taylor
Taylor, G. (2021). Present in Place: Lively Potentials of Site-responsive Performance in an Era of Environmental Crisis. Performance of the Real, 2. https://doi.org/10.21428/b54437e2.b720514c. https://performancereal.pubpub.org/pub/orutgz5d/release/3
Place-responsive Art and Performance Now: a panel discussion
Watch recording here
BodyPlaceProject presented a hybrid panel discussion hosted by Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST), RMIT, alongside ngurrak-al marram-u / body of the mountain exhibition on 12th June, 2025.
Rheannan Port and Dr Jill Orr joined Indonesian performance artist and activist, Arahmaiani and Professor of Site Dance, Vicky Hunter (UK), to discuss ‘What might place-based performance and art practices offer now?’ These international leaders in the field reflected on site- and place-responsive art at this critical moment globally for the climate and environment, in light of the revitalisation of Indigenous knowledges, and in an atmosphere of political conflict and tenterhooks.
Panellists:
Arahmaiani (Indonesia)
Professor Vicky Hunter (UK)
Dr Jill Orr
Rheannan Port
Introduction: Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert (CAST & BodyPlaceProject)
Chair: Dr Gretel Taylor (Curator, BodyPlaceProject)