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
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and neighbouring Bunurong and Boon wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which I live, work and dance. I pay deep respect to their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. I extend that respect to Traditional Owners of the many Countries on which I undertake my work and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. I 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.