The festival features works across performance, dance, visual art, video, sound art and more. As well as supporting a new generation of artists taking creative risks, the festival also has a commitment to social and cultural diversity, environmental sustainability and inclusion. 75% of all projects will be led by women and 20% of projects are led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
Rafaella McDonald and Natasha Gabriella Tontey come together for Angkot Alien, where a unique Indonesian-style ‘Angkot’ van will be parked in a secret location around the city, where costume, painting, video and performance overlap to create a textured live art experience.
Emerging Indigenous artist Katie West reflects on the impact of colonisation upon her sense of self as an Aboriginal woman in Decolonist, while Ecosexual Bathhouse invites audiences to explore the social and psychological boundaries between ecology, evolution and sexuality.
Other highlights of the opening weekend include The Fraud Complex in which suspicions and doubt are created through an unusual co-presentation of artworks, across performance, painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation and Annaliese Constable’s newest work, Mummy Dearest– holding a magnifying glass up to families, addiction, mental illness and magpie attacks.
Over seven hours, radio queens and sound curators Julia Drouhin and Pip Stafford will take over the 3CR airwaves transmitting live performances by seven acclaimed female sound artists in Sisters Akousmatica.
