PROJECT: DUSK
Dusk looks at the connections that are made between people and technology. Viewers will engage with tiny creatures of light, which respond organically to movement. Using metaphors from the physical world, this project suggests that our comfort and relationship with computers is now so … Read More →
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Applespiel
PROJECT: SNAIL PIECE
Since earning their debut accolade “You guys are crazy!” at Short +Sweet 2009 (courtesy of Festival Director Alex Broun), Applespiel have gone on to perform at Monthly Friend, NightTime and the Tiny Stadiums Festival. They host and perform ‘Appleloft’ the recurring suburban performance … Read More →
Ecto-Plasm
PROJECT: AIR CITY
Ecto-Plasm is Tully Arnot, Charles Dennington, Sally Pittman, Chris Petkovic, Jessica Stewart, Alex Chidzey, Stephanie Overs, Taitha Klevier, Xiaofu Wang & Stef Lau.
Air City is a playful, multi-layered sculptural installation developed and built by this collective of inflatable sculpture artists. The audience … Read More →
Hosanna Heinrich, Kenny Feather & Chris Wilson
PROJECT: APACHE STUDIES
‘Apache Studies’ is inspired by the ‘Danse Apache’, a brutal street dance from the early 1900s which hijacks the waltz and Tango, interspersing the dance embrace with acts of brutality such as slapping, strangling and hair pulling. The artists will develop a series … Read More →
I Can Draw You A Picture
ICDYAP is a publishing installation resulting in a magazine which will be available at the Festival event. Before that, it’s a live design and editorial studio. Before that, it’s a data capture stand that photographs and collates material. And before that, right at the beginning, … Read More →
Justin Harvey
PROJECT: 13% PERVERT
A multifaceted exploration of our shifting public and private selves. Part game, part study, ‘13% Pervert’ takes its name from a statistic, being the outcome of research conducted by R.J. Moore on the usage of video chat website www.chatroulette.com
During the Public Lab … Read More →
The Ambisonic Collective
This loose collective of vocally artistic Sydney-siders has been meeting fortnightly with musical maestro Mr Percival at the helm. They will be taking part in Underbelly Arts to work towards their first public performance. Creating improvised audio layers and textures and working on contemporary arrangements, … Read More →
Natalia Ladyko & Ella McInnes
PROJECT: UMBRELLA THEATRE
From the distance, it draws you near
Sense it, feel it, breathe the fear
Blood red velvet to your feet
Heartbeat pulls you from your seat.
A selected few can come discover
What is hidden beneath the cover.
The secrets are waiting to be told
Come and see the … Read More →
The Ordinary Collective
PROJECT: IT JUST LEAVES ME WITH AN EMPTY FEELING
Much digital art can be technically amazing but do nothing for the person experiencing it. Creating a maze of flashing, beeping and flickering gadgets and gizmos, machines and motors, this project seeks to address this unpleasant fact … Read More →
pie full of blackbirds
PROJECT: FRAGILE CONTENTS
Prepare for a DIY 3D experience. By looking through the peepholes in a hanging cargo box, the viewer is granted a private experience of hand-made 3D imagery. Nearby you can watch an instructional video, showing how the artists created the work.
This project … Read More →
Projected from the Elements
Blending cabaret and physical theatre, enveloped in visuals and audio, this project will explore the Elements through the female form and femininity using dance and movement.
This eclectic group of performers are coming together for the first time: featuring Sarina del Fuego, Burlesque performer and … Read More →
Reef Knot
PROJECT: FILLING IN THE CRACKS
Reef Knot are inviting new and emerging public artists to work with them to create a series of small scale, environmentally friendly works along Kensington Street, Chippendale. Drawing on Reef Knot’s experience producing community-based, engaging public art, the works will create … Read More →
Synarcade Audio-Visuals
PROJECT: THE LUMIPHONIC CREATURE CHOIR
‘The Lumiphonic Creature Choir’ is Synarcade Audio-Visuals’ new work-in-progress and the follow-on from the acclaimed “Emergence: Build Your Own Being”. It is a ghostly 21st century organ of human voices singing songs and reciting tales for a digitally cloned age. A … Read More →
The Seafarer’s Academy
PROJECT: I SCARE MY 6 YEAR OLD SELF
‘My brother sits down with another round. He has bought me a midi of beer. The last time we were all together was Queensland in 1997. We went to Brisbane’s equivalent of Questacon and perhaps for the first … Read More →
Thomas Keily & Bravo Child
PROJECT: DRAW ME A MAP MY BROTHER
There are two boys who believe there must be a way out of here.
Over the course of Underbelly Arts, Thomas and Bravo will fashion together a map – a something woven together of scraps of rhyme, … Read More →
All The Best
FBI’s ‘All The Best’ presents stories from around Kensington St Chippendale produced especially for this year’s Underbelly Arts. Wander around the site and explore the tales of this city via the wireless where you can map out your own journey and build your own listening … Read More →