Launching the program is the largest party on the Midsumma Festival calendar, Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual Australia – hosted by performance artist Tristan Meecham.
2016 also marks a new artist residency program with local artists Plastic Loaves and The Rabble set to create and present new works as well as Natalie Abbott and Robin Fox. In a special event celebrating The Substation’s 100 year history, more than 30 visual artists will create new works responding to the unique architecture and cultural legacy of the building.
Elsewhere in the program, Berlin-based photographer and Berghain nightclub bouncer Sven Marquardt will present the Australian premiere of his exhibition FOTOGRAFIEN, a series of guided projection walks at dawn and dusk will take to the streets and a performative lecture unpacking the Vietnam Archive Project as part of Human Rights Arts and Film Festival will take place.
