Long Table

From The New Everyday

The ‘Long Table’ is an experimental public forum developed by performance artist Lois Weaver. It is a hybrid performance installation-round table discussion-dinner party designed to facilitate informal conversations on serious topics.

According to the Live Art Development Agency:

The Long Table is inspired by Marleen Gorris' film Antonia's Line. The central image of the film is a dinner table that grows longer and longer as Antonia's family welcomes more outsiders and accommodates more eccentricity. The Long Table experiments with participation and public engagement by re-appropriating a dinner table atmosphere as a public forum, and encouraging informal conversations on serious topics. It is literally a very long table set up with chairs, microphones and refreshments where anyone and everyone is welcome to come to the table, ask questions, make statements, leave comments, or simply sit, listen and watch.