Curated by artist and festival Creative Director Pete Keen, Sugar Mountain’s visual arts line-up showcases a selection of truly talented local and international art makers. In 2013, Sugar Mountain explores the union and juxtaposition of light and movement. Entitled A Light, Bend & Stretch, the visual arts programming is a salute to local visionaries using light as tool within their creative practice, and their relationships with choreographed dance and movement, interactive installation and live musical performance.
Some of the artsist included in Sugar Mountain’s arts program include Australian-born director and producer Kris Moyes, who will be reunited with Kirin J Callinan for a collaborative live debut, Melbourne artist Hamishi, independent contemporary choreographer Antony Hamilton, driving force behind art/music super group The Changes Misha Hollenbach as well as Phantôscopia, Jeremy Earl, emerging multidisciplinary visual artist Thomas Russell, Germany/New Zealand designer Markus Hofko and Kit Webster.
Complementing the Sugar Mountain Festival will be seven inspiring satellite events, spanning film screenings, Q&As, exhibitions and art installations, such as Stones Throw’s night of music video at Rooftop Bar, Beg, Scream and Shout! Film Festival – Shadow Electric at The Abbotsford Convent and the launch of Jeremy Earl’s exhibition at Polyester Records.
