++ Performing Lines : Mobile States ++

Mobile States has a particular interest in those artists whose practice is concerned with experimentation, research and the investigation of ideas and form. It is interested in innovative works created by small scale or project based companies.

To be eligible for consideration the works must have premiered in a professional production by the proposal deadline, Monday 15 June 2009. For more information on this current call for proposals, see Applications.

Works are selected by the Directors of the consortium’s presenter members, according to the Mobile States curatorial principles. The productions chosen will:

	Employ multiple performance languages;
	Be conceptually, formally or technologically ambitious;
	Contribute to current cultural and/or artform developments;
	Be dramaturgically coherent; and
	Have attracted positive critique in press and by peers.

	Profiling independent practitioners or small companies nationally
	Audience development for contemporary work nationally
	Creating cultural debate and dialogue about performance
	Creating space for individual practitioners to gauge their own artistic development
	Dialogue between peer artists and companies leading to possible collaboration & a national perspective
	Maturation of the work, which leads to further opportunities.

Mobile States – National Touring Initiative is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.