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Daniel Schlusser Ensemble
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Marrugeku
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Anna Breckon and Nat Randall
RISING: 21 pornographies
Mette Ingvartsen
Journeys across borders, artforms and cultures
Season 2 2022
Here We Are Amongst You
Rawcus
The Warehouse Residency
2022 - 2023 Artist Announcement

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Hercules

Hercules

Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, haunted by Euripides
Taking the twelve labours of Hercules as its entry point, this visionary work of theatre excavates the violence that lies beneath the myth of the hero.
Jurrungu

Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk]

Marrugeku
A powerful and provocative new dance work challenging Australia's fixation with incarceration.
Set

Set Piece

Anna Breckon and Nat Randall
Lesbian fantasy meets the queer ordinary in a technical marvel of screen and stage.
21

21 pornographies

Mette Ingvartsen
Domination, submission and observation. A one-woman power play confronting pornography's pervasive creep.
Nikki Lam - Makeshift Publics - Time absorbs the feelings it produces

time absorbs the feelings it produces

Nikki Lam
Set your temporal senses astray in Nikki Lam's digital essay, in which audio, video and text play with the altered perceptions of time afforded by today's digital ecology.
Bridget Chappell - Makeshift Publics - The Water Keeps Running

The water keeps running even after you turn your back on it

Bridget Chappell
Before the colony dug up anything else, white Australia was mining water – come listen and bear witness to the underground voice of the Great Artesian Basin.
Why

Why work with Museums?

Andy Butler and guests
A podcast that asks: are art museums themselves just relics, or should we attempt to blow the dust off in search of something more?
Here

Here We Are Amongst You

Rawcus
Here We Are Amongst You is a secular prayer for our times. It is a raw and exuberant gathering hosted by the renowned Rawcus ensemble. 
And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroines - Still from As high as the stars so far unseen by blk banaana

And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroines

An exhibition curated by Roberta Joy Rich and Naomi Velaphi
This potent series of exchanges between artists on the African continent and those living in its diaspora reimagines stories of women from archives of Southern African history. 
Jagad - Monica Lim, Rianto and Melanie Lane

Jagad

Monica Lim, Rianto and Melanie Lane
Contemporary dance and live video offer a haunting investigation of Javanese concepts of the inner and outer universe.
Scream

Scream Star

Speak Percussion
Acclaimed international composers fuse the worlds of sound and screen, percussion and projection in a performance by Melbourne’s alchemists of the experimental aural arts. 
More

More Than Words Can Say

Catherine Dunn and Sam Martin
Through a series of workshops culminating in a public showcase, Catherine Dunn and Sam Martin bring together five Deaf artists to reflect upon their relationship with signed stories and Audism.

BLEED 2022

A biennial live event of the everyday digital
The second edition of our biennial festival exploring the IRL and URL.
The

The Durga Chronicles

Priya Srinivasan, Philipa Rothfield and Uthra Vijay
In a time of endemic gendered violence, this interdisciplinary work evokes a metaverse storying the primordial force of the Goddess Durga/Mariamman/Koravvai in an urgent call to action. 
I

I Am Not This Body – No Consent

Leisa Prowd
Leisa Prowd invites audiences to experience life when you're not even 4 feet in a 6 foot world shared through movement, film and installation.
NEVERNEVERNEVER

NEVERNEVERNEVER NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER

Aaron Orzech and Collaborators
NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER is a duet performed by a man and a boy.
Garabari

Garabari

Joel Bray Dance & Chunky Move
Immerse yourself in the swirling depths of a reimagined civic ritual: a looping Garabari of bodies, light and sound
Fire

Fire Plays Eyes to the Blind

Mia Boe
In landscapes real and imagined, an artist reckons with the past of her island home.

News & Insights

The

The making of Hercules

An artist statement by Daniel Schlusser Ensemble

Hercules is a meme. As a child, Hercules seemed to me a vivid character in a complex story, part of the Greek Myths that…
Hercules

Hercules Q&A

An unflinching theatrical descent into a dark underworld of heroes, gods and monsters.

Hercules is a powerful and challenging new work from the acclaimed Daniel Schlusser Ensemble that drops a mineshaft deep into the bedrock of the…
Meet

Meet The Team Behind Hercules

By Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, haunted by Euripides

We’re delighted to introduce you to the team behind Hercules, the exciting new work by Daniel Schlusser Ensemble.
Journeys

Journeys across borders, artforms and cultures

Season 2 2022

We’re feeling ourselves again, and perhaps the best part of that feeling is being able to confidently share this magical season of new art…