Long Table

The Long Table is an "experimental open public forum that is a hybrid performance-installation-roundtable-discussion-dinner-party designed to facilitate dialogue through the gathering together of people with common interests"[1] developed by the artist and academic Lois Weaver.

[2] The idea was inspired by the 1995 Dutch film Antonia's Line, directed by Marleen Gorris.

[3] The first Long Table a "Long Table on Feminism", was held as part of the Live Art Development Agency's (LADA) third Restock Rethink Reflect initiative, and constituted a discussion on what and who is missing from historical accounts, and what to do about it.

[4] The Long Table was designed to stage public conversations around difficult subjects.

'[6] The Long Table has been installed in many locations, including Casa de Lapa, Rio de Janeiro; Tanzquartier Wein, Vienna; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow; University of Indiana, Illinois; Queen Mary University of London, Space Gallery, Battersea Arts Centre, London International Festival of Theatre, and South Bank, London; Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro in Buenos Aires, Argentina.