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UB - Birds Eye View. Photo by Nicole Reed

Birds Eye View

UB
A series of puppets with a cyber-punk aesthetic is placed in three LED boxes that allow the public to operate and create their own stories.
Crowd Stance - Rafaella McDonald

Crowd Stance

Rafaella McDonald
Crowd Stance is a rich, large-scale installation that uses bold colour and cartoon-like abstraction to capture the movement and energy of crowds.
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.
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. 
And

And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroines – Exhibition

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. 

And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroines – Public Program

Public Program curated by Roberta Joy Rich and Naomi Velaphi
Join the curators and artists of And she was wearing trousers for a weekend of conversations and night of music that celebrates and reimagines archives of Black women of Southern African histories. 
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.

Digital Events - On Now & Coming Up

Apologies for the Delay in Response - Titanic image by Michael Rosshothen. Image shows a computer drawing of the Titanic ship heading towards an iceberg in the night with a bright moon top right

Apologies for the Delay in Response

Nikki Lam & Yasbelle Kerkow
Nikki Lam and Yasbelle Kerkow unpick the thornier sides of art collectives, in which collaboration is often countered by imbalances of power, access and visibility.
Do Planners Dream of Electric Trees - Timmah Ball looking directly up from the ground to a canopy of trees in darkness silhouetted against the night sky

Do Planners Dream of Electric Trees?

Timmah Ball
Timmah Ball's revealing publication explores the complex colonial heritage embedded in Arts House and its surrounding suburbs, while imagining futures in which sovereignty flourishes.
Artist

Artist Sessions

Alexander Powers & Andy Butler with Latai Taumoepeau
Join us for the first in our Makeshift Publics Artist Sessions series, and hear from two artists from the 2021 cohort as they present research, ideas and themes in their practice.
Artist

Artist Sessions

Efren Pamilacan & Ruth Nyaruot Ruach with Madeleine Flynn
Radical healing as resistance and the culture of public dance in a time of social distancing – our second Artist Session will take you to fascinating new places.
Lucreccia Quintanilla - The Place In Which I Fit Won't Exist Until I Make It

The Place In Which I Fit Won’t Exist Until I Make It

Lucreccia Quintanilla
This short but powerful publication collects the thoughts of a range of artists and organisers on the notion of self-organisation as a cultural and personal practice.
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.
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.
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?

Been & Gone

Memeza

Memeza

Nontsikelelo Mutiti
Inspired by the Queen of African pop: Brenda Fassie and hair braiding, Memeza's powerful portraits are signposts of the continual strength of Black women from the archives into our present.
Make Your Life Count - Sarah Aiken

Make Your Life Count

Sarah Aiken and Collaborators
A dance work that shifts scale between the microscopic and the universal, Make Your Life Count is an invitation to lose yourself.
Flux

Flux Job

Lucy Guerin Inc
A work that shifts between the layered, fluctuating language of movement and the more everyday realm of words with finite meanings.
In The Time of Refuge - Bryony Jackson

Talking In the Time of Refuge

Six years of collaboration and imagination in the face of disaster – join us for afternoon tea as we delve into our publication In the Time of Refuge.
YES

YES

THE RABBLE
A theatrical inquiry into the impossible task of seeking the truth.
We

We Take Back Our Mother Tongues

FAMILI
Get on your feet and soak your senses in a powerful night of music, movement and mental restoration. 
Aida Azin - Stay Climbing. Photo by Bryony Jackson

Stay Climbing

Aida Azin
Aida Azin deploys evocative dream-state symbols to decode the experiences of a third-culture kid.