An installation of drawings, painting and environmental sculpture by Kyla Ring. Experimenting with a call and response approach, Kyla will respond to the architecture of Cockatoo Island in a series of interactive artworks. Kyla has previously exhibited in Berlin and Paris and contributed to projects at Peat’s Ridge, Walking The Street and Next Wave Festival [...]
Spotlight Bunny is a new work that explores location, the influence of soundtrack and the slippery nature of context. Influenced by drive-in culture it blends the past with the present day iPod generation. It is an intimate performance for four audience members within the confines of a stationary car. From the voyeuristic safety of the [...]
‘V’ is one of Justin Shoulder’s fantastic creatures. This contemporary demon draws from the lineage of worldly fantastic creatures that have enriched human stories since the beginning of expression. The team has been brought together by Jeff Stein to help realise both the potential of the work “V” as a large-scale work and also realize [...]
The artists behind Pattern Machine will build a site-specific audio-visual installation responding to the surrounding maritime-industrial landscape, representing the hidden inner life of the fallen industrial beast. They will construct a synaesthetic nylon cocoon of imagined bodily organs from amongst the half-alive structures of the convict workshop, and offer the audience a glimpse into the [...]
Inflection is an interactive theatre game that invites audiences to explore an alternate version of Cockatoo Island. Something precious has been stolen and the thieves have gone missing. What dark secret lies hidden amongst the abandoned buildings? Use your wits, imagination and body to engage with this game and, maybe, you’ll learn just enough to [...]
The Stream / The Boat / The Shore / The Bridge is an interactive lateral thinking puzzle based around the idea of a flowing river. Based around four distinct sites of interaction, the audience will be given problems to solve – active real world scenarios infused with narrative moments, in order to create opportunities for [...]
Using themes of global power shifts, industrial decline and economic uncertainty, EG1/EXT will weave together a tribute to the industrial age and its workers in The Dignity of Labor. The project will represent the site of Cockatoo Island and the rich history of its workers through audio and visual technology; a digital drum kit made [...]
There are few greater examples of the sheer luxury of the western world than the all you can eat buffet. It exemplifies the choice, the comfort and above all, the amount of food we have available to us and enjoy. Butterfries propose a different angle. Abandon all hope as ye enter the disfigured love child [...]
C-art is a roaming interactive multimedia cart that projects video, photography, sound and graffiti on its surrounds. Spontaneous and user driven, this magic art portal will reflect, project and remix the sound and images fed to it by the audience, creating a moving and morphing art-source. C-Art will be roaming the Cockatoo Island looking for [...]
Data_shadow is video installation exploring of the relationship between memory and technology. The term data_shadow refers to the traceable data that a person creates by engaging with technology, such as the internet, credit cards and mobile phones. Using thousands of photos and videos he has collected, artist Brad Miller will create a visual database that [...]
The team behind last year’s hit Snail Piece, are back for Underbelly Arts 2011, with a brand new project to make you think twice before picking up just any old book. Awful Literature is Still Literature I Guess takes a look at the fantasy, expectation and romanticism we attach to books and the reading experience. [...]
Rhapsody is a theatre piece that aims to borrow techniques used for creating music to create theatre. Music has the ability to move and change us, and Whale Chorus will weave together a performance score that follows the logic of a piece of music working with rhythm, harmony, polyphony, dissonance. The theme of this performance [...]
