make-shift – a networked performance about connectivity and consequences by Paula Crutchlow & Helen Varley Jamieson – will premiere on Sunday 5 December at 4.30pm European time (find your local time here). make-shift combines the UpStage platform with audio-visual streams from two houses, one in […]

In January 2010, we helped to celebrate Art’s Birthday with a party in UpStage. This time, since we were already talking about when would be a good time to restage some of the performances from the 101010 UpStage Festival, we’ve decided to hold “101010 again” […]

The 101010 UpStage Festival is over! Audiences from Peru to Portugal, from Vancouver to Vietnam, tuned in over a 21-hour period to watch a diverse range of innovative cyberformances presented by more than 50 artists from around the world. The festival ran almost according to […]

We are delighted to announce the schedule of performances for the 101010 UpStage Festival! The festival begins at 8pm NZ time on Sunday 10 October (find your local time here) and runs until 4.30pm NZ time on Monday 11 October. There is a break in […]

Art’s Birthday is an annual exchange-art event celebrated on January 17th by a loose collection of artists and artist organizations around the world. This year we are joined in with a party in UpStage at 10am European time, 10pm NZ time on Sunday 17 January […]

Tonight, Monday 26th, at 19:00 European time, there will be an opening of the installation Let ME Go at Skjern Bibliotek, Denmark and online here (find your local time here). To participate online, journey through the web site and you will arrive in the Underworld […]

“Let ME Go” is an on-site and online installation inspired by the Sumerian myth of Inanna’s descent to the underworld and created by theatre artists Antonella Diana and Helen Varley Jamieson. “Let ME Go” premiered in June 2009 and is being remounted in October 2009. […]

We are delighted to announce the performances selected for the 090909 UpStage Festival, which takes place online and at RL access nodes around the world on 9 September 2009. There will be eleven performances – six by artists who have previously created work in UpStage […]

At Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, 9pm local time (find your local time here). “Salvation” brings together stories of rescue and redemption at the crossroads of land and water, New York and Venice, heaven and earth, literature and technology. Original lyrics in English feature the story […]

Digital Performance students at Wesleyan University (USA) presented six short virtual performances in UpStage. “We are testing the potential of the software for interactivity and live graphic storytelling. Students will be the ‘actors’ who will be moving the avatars, backgrounds, props, voice and sound that […]