Artists

Biljana Jancic – Skyline ¹

Biljana Jancic is a young solo artist working on an installation built from wooden boxes to create shafts of light in a darkened room.

triage live art collective – Joan of Arc is Alive and Well and Living on Cockatoo Island ⁰

Feeling misunderstood, or perhaps misrepresented? Are you experiencing pressure to confess? Martyrdom got you down? J Dark can help… Joan of Arc is Alive and Well and Living on Cockatoo Island is a One to One participatory durational performance installation event. In response to a calling card, individuals will rendezvous at an appointed time and [...]

STRINGS ATTACHED & YOUNES BACHIR – OJO ¹

Younes Bachir and Strings Attached will create large-scale physical theatre that will transform the intricate walls of the Turbine Hall into a vertical stage of endless possibilities, guiding you to reflect upon the mystery of human nature. The theme of this aerial choreography piece is natural disasters and its consequences in contemporary times. Imagine hanging, [...]

Splinter Orchestra ⁰

Splinter Orchestra is a Sydney based large-scale electro-acoustic improvising ensemble. Currently comprised of 35 members from a wide range of musical, regional and experimental backgrounds, the Splinter Orchestra achieves a graceful tension, restraint and simplicity within its music. During Underbelly Arts they will be improvising with and against various sonic spaces on Cockatoo Island, creating [...]

Sexy Tales Comedy Collective – 100 Years of Lizards ²

Millions of years ago, a race of lizards warred against the dinosaurs and won. Now the guilty and chameleonic remnants of that race live on a small island off the coast of Australia, where two lonely scientists are dedicated to studying them. After their funding is threatened, they open the island up to the exuberant [...]

Complicit ²

Watch the walls of Cockatoo Island come alive as they become the home of reactive, moving robots. Complicit is an interactive installation that aims to develop a material dialogue between the human and non-human, fusing robotic art and textile craft. This project is a brand new collaboration between Petra Gemeinboeck, Liz Williamson and Rob Saunders, [...]

Case Study ²

Imagine if a new land was discovered and you were part of the first wave of settlers. It would be a chance to start all over again. How would you set up your society? What would you change? Case Study explores ideas about how a society is created. Six artists will migrate to Cockatoo Island [...]

Spatio-temporal Anomalies, Spatial Distortion and the Persistence of Vision ⁰

Spatio-temporal Anomalies, Spatial Distortion and the Persistence of Vision will take your favourite household appliances and throw-away objects and turn them into something quite unexpected. In a collaborative first for the two artists, this project seeks to challenge our understanding of what it means to use an object and how its environment effects its use. [...]

Ngoc Nguyen – Xuan (Spring) ⁰

Transport yourself to South-East Asia as Vietnamese artist Ngoc Nguyen creates an installation that explores the idea of being in between two different cultures. Ideas of belonging and displacement will be examined through the creation of traditional Vietnamese structures and scenes in the places we least expect, including a beautiful spring flower festival right on [...]

Neil Brandhorst – Horizon ¹

Horizon is an installation that disrupts the sensory information required to make sense of the environment. Artist Neil Brandhorst wants to challenge the viewer to consciously make sense of the environment, revealing how previous experiences provide meaning in new situations and result in the feelings and urges that become our behaviour. Neil Brandhorst is an [...]

Swanbrero – Inflate My Heart With 1000 Gushes of Wind ¹

Swanbrero will insert a piece of Parramatta Road into the natural wonderland of Cockatoo Island in their project Inflate My Heart with 1000 Gushes of Wind. Using a combination of video and live performance, the work will experiment with large-scale interpretive choreography, costume and wind to create a melancholic spectacle. Swanbrero are two interdisciplinary artists [...]

Murasaki Penguin – Shima ⁵

Shima, Murasaki Penguin’s first creation in Australia, will be an interdisciplinary site-specific work created on Cockatoo Island. It will cross dance, sound, video, electronics and installation, with every medium influenced by the eerie, run-down, industrial – but also beautiful – nature of the island. Murasaki Penguin tends to draw on themes including technology, isolation, beauty [...]