BODY OF WATER - Environmental Performance Authority (EPA)

Gretel co-founded 'EPA' (formerly Urban Water Performance Group) in 2013 with Stuart Grant and Peter Fraser.  The group brings together artists and academics with expertise in site-responsive performance and is based in a Body Weather methodology. The group created Body of Water for Maudie Palmer's Birrarung Project and Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (2014) at Queensbridge Square, a site in Melbourne's CBD on the Yarra River (Birrarung).  Body of Water referred to historical and cultural features of the river site, the qualities, sensibilities, ecological challenges of water, and the fact that our bodies are largely comprised of water.

M47, EPA

In November and December 2016, EPA performed 47 site-based events around Melbourne, supported by City of Melbourne. Yes, 47! Gretel Taylor created Divining Melbourne and Requiem and performed collaboratively in many others. View video of highlights here: youtu.be/YPEzQWv4rcs
This Colonial Garden, EPA for M47, 2016

More on EPA: www.epaperformance.org
BodyPlaceProject is based on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people in Corhanwarrabul/Dandenong Ranges and Narrm/Melbourne, and undertakes work in many other locations. We pay deep respect to First Nations elders past and present, who have listened to Country and danced, sung and told stories in and about their places for millennia, to share knowledge and to care for Country and people. ​
​They are the first site-specific artists!