Location: Hay Street, Darling Harbour NSW 2000 Dates: 24 May – 15 June 6PM – 11PM Poetry engages with words. Illuminates. It speaks to being human in a way that nothing else can, but does writing it require being human? Prepare to interact with the form in a unique way as you stand in front … Read more
Location: Stargazer Law, 27 Hickson Rd, Barangaroo NSW 2000 Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM Collaborators James Roden (Australia) / Feathered Friends Sancturary (Australia) / Chris Bryan (Australia) / Photoplay FIlms (Australia) / Florence Tourbier (Australia) / Ravi Wasan (Australia) / Jackson Milas (Australia) / Sonar Music (Australia) Event Details The … Read more
Location: Cockle Bay, Darling Harbour Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM Collaborators Shuichiro Iwanami / Tomoyuki Soramoto / Saeko Ehara / Shuta Yasukochi / Jordan Assaf / Martin Gabco / Matus Lalik / Drohi Parsa / Mojmir Dorniak / Martin Havra / Peter Prokopcak Reflective black water, vivid lasers and projections, … Read more
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM Breathe-taking. Whimsical. Profound. Explore Guan Wei’s imaginative universe at the MCA, where his trademark iconography brightens the night. This is the first time the internationally renowned Chinese Australian artist’s work has been turned into a light projection, and … Read more
Location: Customs House, 31 Alfred Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM The iconic Australian road trip is twisted on its head. Explore this wild and bizarre universe as you move from the familiar to the minuscule realm of bacterial monsters. Travel with national hero Reg Mombassa as retro-futuristic … Read more
Location: Hickson Road Reserve, Circular Quay, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM Step into a canopy dense with LED ropes and connect with our common humanity. As individuals, we are linked by numerous invisible threads, which Angus Muir investigates in this technicolor, immersive work. Wander through a circular … Read more
Location: Powerhouse Museum, The Goods Line Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM The blackness of night at The Goods Line is punctuated by the big, red neon word Humanity. The sign flickers as if broken, but closer investigation reveals that it purposely but somewhat quietly alternates between the words ‘Humanity’ and … Read more
Location: North Village Greens, Darling Quarter Address: 25 Harbour St, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM A structure that glances back at you. This whimsical, interactive art project humanizes the typically faceless outline of our metropolis. Your eyes are projected in huge scale onto a high edifice in … Read more
Location: Chinese Garden of Friendship forecourt, Tumbalong Boulevard, Darling Harbour NSW 2000 Dates: 24 May – 15 June, 2024 6PM – 11PM Peek inside the most mysterious, powerful, and amazing structure in the world: your own brain. Neuron is a motion-activated light installation that depicts our neurons and their branching in huge scale. These bizarre … Read more
Dates: 24 May – 15 June 2024, 6PM – 11PM Location: Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000 Commissioned for Vivid LIVE 2024 by Destination NSW and the Sydney Opera House. As we are taken into the murky realm of Narcissus, denim, hessian, and a sewn and bundled patchwork of leftover material all become our reality. Here, we are left to ponder what it means to really see oneself as we navigate the textural folds of the narrative. Witness the Sydney Opera House’s renowned sails being covered in large sections of Julia Gutman’s textured artwork for Lighting of the Sails: Retell and reimagine the fable of Narcissus by Roman poet Ovid. This is not just a reimagining of an old tale, but also a clash between antiquated methods and cutting-edge technology. Donated fabrics have been turned into an animated, timely epic by Julia and Pleasant Company through the digitization of centuries-old fabric production skills. Our protagonist appears to us in a fantasia of materials. A girl with a face sewed from an old hessian bag, hair created from her mother’s scarf, and a striped t-shirt. She finds herself pulled into a metaphorical pool by her own reflection. She is thrust into the unknown and has to make her way through perilous denim rivers and stony satin subsoils. Echo uses dance, music, and puppetry to portray a tale of courage, wonder, and vulnerability. It unites the dark and the light, the imagined and the actual, the public and the private. Echo is a reminder to examine ourselves and confront our shadows. You’ll be thinking about its beauty and weirdness long after the lights go off and the fabric has fallen away.