The Sydney Dance Company’s new work Touch was filmed in Sydney’s new performance space Phoenix. Photograph: Phoenix
Digital-only performances and live streaming to a virtual audience are set to become a permanent feature of the live performance landscape, long after the Covid-19 pandemic comes under control, and leading the way in this new era of post-pandemic art is a new gallery and live performance space in Sydney’s inner city suburb of Chippendale.
Phoenix Central Park was conceived and funded by philanthropist Judith Neilson, the founder and owner of Sydney’s White Rabbit gallery, which houses one of the largest collections in the world of contemporary Chinese art.
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The director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Tony Ellwood, remembers being briefed about how bad the pandemic could get on Sunday, March 15. I was told that this was going to be incredibly serious and that we needed to move quickly, he says. My first thought was that I can see people walking through the gallery. I need to shut it down fast.