IPSTA
Designed and built by:
Rodney Glick
Tony York
Donna Dransfield
2001
30m x 5m x 5m
International Performance Space Tammin, Australia IPSTA is a challenging facility for the performing arts established in 2001. It has the capacity to accommodate both the visual arts and the full spectrum of performance including contemporary theatre, music and dance. The performance space is situated in a strikingly barren and salt affected Moonscape. It is located at the bottom end of the Bungulla Creek Catchment, in the middle of a large salt scald, part of the ancient Mortlock River system. A 200km drive east of Perth, it is easily accessible, approximately 8km off the great Eastern Highway.
The site has a raw and unforseen beauty. Pristine white salt scalds surrounded by low scrubby saltbush and patches of melaleuca and mallee country, it has been fenced off as unfarmable. Turning on its head the perception of land gone saline as a moment of shame in the history of dynamic land use the International Performance Space challenges a psychological shift in our selfconscious reading of the Australian landscape.
The International Performance Space Tammin, Australia, IPSTA encourages proposals for new performance work from both artists and arts organisations. Contact and enquires are through Glick International.