This year, the Gertrude Street Projection Festival will celebrate its ninth year of transforming one of Melbourne’s most well-loved streets into a living, immersive, outdoor gallery.
Thirty-eight sites on and around the street including shop fronts, laneways, windows and footpaths will come alive with bold visions of award-winning projection artists – all exhibited for free.
This year’s program will feature works including Wheel of Fate – a ‘choose your own adventure’ style performance piece that uses innovative LED mobile media – alongside the return of the Boite Choirs, unique cinema experience The Artbox Truck, and Mira Oosterwghel’s Sometimes Memories Can Be Visceral – a piece that delves into the flux of past and present.
With a program that focuses on connection between artwork and audience, further program highlights include the psychedelic Aperion that creates a meditative loop that tries to transpose codes into an abstract space, taking over the Builders Arms Hotel as part of the Festival’s street program.
Kit Webster’s Morphic Prism will take over an abandoned shop with a large scale pyramid, video and infinity mirror to create reality-bending reflections. Nova Paul’s Notes on Props and Gesture will make its way to Gertrude Street, with the artist receiving international acclaim for her work that reflects on culture and place. Paul’s work is made from the extensive home movies of the Gadini Family from as early as the 1920s, held in the film archive Cinescatti at Lab80 Bergamo, Italy.
Walking 8 will take punters on a unique projection tour through the back streets of Fitzroy, with the audience given mobile projectors. Gabi Briggs’ Cleanse, Tone Obscure tackles white privilege, while Anuencia: If This Building Could Speak explores the history of Fitzroy through audio and sound.
