Natasha Bradley-CrossPerformative Landscapes

Performative Landscapes is an outdoor public performance and participatory art project exploring landscape architectures inherent performative nature and its historical development in civic design. The project investigates their connections through urban performance and ephemeral placemaking involving building of a dry-stone wall and public event series on the historic grounds of Rosny Farm.

Combining the use of stone, earth, physical movement, labour and exchange between trade professionals, gardeners, geologists, arts practitioners and everyday people, the project seeks to build knowledge of how we make our physical urban and green spaces and how they in turn condition us or invigorate our everyday. Responding to debates around urban development, demolition culture and the value embedded in building connection to existing sites through material led and movement based architectural practices that re-centre human experience of making and inhabiting our cities and spaces in a more engaging way.

Performative Landscapes involves a collective of artists and producers including Natasha Bradley-Cross, Bliss Sandhu, Keryn & Mark Fountain and Florian Kessler.