DUBBO'S art and drama teachers have played a "crucial" role in securing a pilot project that will give youth the opportunity to develop and showcase their talents.
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Staff of Kaldor Public Art Projects met with them before deciding that Dubbo was the best place to launch its 2015 Pilot Regional Youth Engagement Project.
For more than 45 years Kaldor has created groundbreaking projects with international artists in public spaces, changing the landscape of contemporary art in Australia.
The pilot program beginning in Dubbo on the weekend of May 16 and 17 is an "important strand" of Kaldor's public engagement program for
its 30th project-- Marina Abramovic': In Residence.
Kaldor has been supported by Western Plains Cultural Centre in its bid to give youth aged 16 to 20 the chance to work with regional and Sydney-based artists and curators to explore their own ideas on "performance, audience, public space and contemporary art".
Recruitment of participants to the free program is underway.
Kaldor's regional engagement co-ordinator Jo Higgins said youth living in the Orana region and Dubbo were being offered a "one-in-a-lifetime" opportunity.
"The program runs over five exciting weekends between May and July and includes a special four-day visit to Sydney to meet Marina Abramović and experience her work, Kaldor Public Art Project 30 - Marina Abramović: In Residence, directly," she said.
As a pioneer of performance art, Marina Abramović is considered to be one of the world's most influential artists.
She was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010.
The federal and state governments are supporting Kaldor's 30th project with a combined $225,000.
Applications to be part of the pilot project close on May 8.
They can be obtained by sending an email to jo@kaldoraartprojects.org.au.
