Art Installations
A playground of art awaits you that will transport you to new worlds and evoke new ways of thinking. From day to night watch the Wildlands transform as new layers unravel and the Australian bush becomes a canvas of colour, imagination and texture.
Art is what sets us apart from so many festivals - to us, the visual and experiential elements of the festival are as important as the music playing.
Play, connect, explore and immerse yourself in art.
Dylan Blackstone from Blackstonebuilds, is an artist, woodworker, and sculptor from Oakland, California. Raised with the understanding that all things in the natural world have spirit, he has always felt deeply connected to and inspired by nature. His forms reflect the harmonious patterns of the organic world and the geometric building blocks that create life. An avid psychedelic explorer, he coins the term “Psychedelic Carpentry” to describe his work. And it is just that- as though taking shapes and forms from your wildest fantasies and materializing them in real-time- creating spaces and artwork that ignites curiosity and imagination.
InKāla is a Naarm based transmedia arts collective founded by Joli Boardman and Calum Kenihan. Working with light, sound and structure, building installations, live audiovisual performances and responsive environments that treat perception as material.
Nangarna Woka Nurratj — Respect Country’s Dreaming
A major audiovisual installation that powerfully communicates the sacred connection between Us, Country, Water, and our sacred Animal and Plant kin.
Artists:
Dylan Charles https://www.instagram.com/630billy_/
Neil Morris https://www.instagram.com/drmngnow/
Rose Staff https://www.instagram.com/rosesugarlove/
Spencer Rose is a generative artist who explores life through the lens of cellular automata. His practice is rooted in questioning the fundamental elements of existence and its complexity. Spencer uses interactive particle simulations to explore the movement of everchanging abstract forms and their connection to sound. By using algorithms and improvisation to control millions of particles, the result of this visual chaos mimics aspects of organic life, revealing the common roots between the simulation and reality.
Zachary Epstein is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Naarm.
His work focuses on the Intersection of sound, light and technology, exploring the abstract connection between music, dance and spiritual freedom.
Ultimately, Zach strives to make others happy through the play and exploration of his artwork.
KWALIA is a contemporary shade design and installation studio based in Bellingen, Australia, specialising in creating large-scale, dynamic environments and illuminated freestanding textile-based structures. Founded and led by Jess Lee, KWALIA combines intricate fabric design, innovative construction, and meticulous attention to detail to create immersive spaces that inspire connection and wonder. With a passion for futuristic forms and unique atmospheric experiences, KWALIA creates memorable installations and shade structures for festivals and special events across Australia and internationally.
Oldmatee788 is the creative practice of Nathaniel, a Wamba Wamba–Wergaia artist and creative technologist based on the Mornington Peninsula (Bunurong Country). Working across projection mapping, generative visuals, immersive installation, live audiovisual performance and creative technology, his practice explores the meeting point between analogue processes, digital systems and human emotion.
Driven by curiosity, Nathaniel creates immersive experiences that encourage people to slow down, observe and connect. His work draws inspiration from the natural world, optical phenomena, sound, and the subtle relationships between people, place and Country. Rather than treating technology as the destination, he uses it as a medium for exploring ideas that are often felt long before they are understood.
Through evolving visual systems and multi-sensory environments, his practice reflects an ongoing personal journey of understanding culture through art, music, Country and shared experience. Rather than defining connection, his work creates space for audiences to discover their own.
Strabacillus Fieldii is a newly discovered colonial bacterium originating on the floodplain ecosystems of the Murray River. Under sufficiently strange conditions- typically involving prolonged bass exposure, elevated curiosity levels and dense human interaction it undergoes a rapid bloom event.
Close contact with the organism may result in temporary symbiosis, increase in chance encounters, ludicrous conversations and an overwhelming sensation of being a cell within a much larger organism.
Strawbacillus fieldii
Living and playing on unceded Wurundjeri land, Casey Hare and d duàn 段耀钦 cultivate speculative worlds through sculpture, light, sound, systems.
Interested in folklore, ecological entanglements, (para)text, biological fictions, and collective rituals, their practice treats installation as both infrastructure and offering ~ places where technology becomes ceremonial and organisms become architecture.
Bookended by an evolving philosophy of slow working~slow living~𝓅𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒, their collaboration cultivates conditions for gathering, noticing, and re-enchantment.
Lava Brain is the creative practice of Naarm (Melbourne)-based artist and curator Eric Fenessy. His work brings people, places, light and sound into dialogue to create the conditions for shared experiences that invite exploration & connection.
Eric's practice moves fluidly between artist and curator, shaped by collaborations with music festivals, DIY events, community radio and independent record labels. He is drawn to hypnotic, transportive experiences that engage both body and mind, unfolding through subtle shifts in rhythm, atmosphere and feeling.
An invitation to play. Come pass through this threshold and enter into the world of imagination, creation and wonder, which we, as a community, build together at the festival. :)
Tetrik Studio is an investigation into the relationship between fabric and form. By allowing textiles to interact with air, light, and their environment, we develop spatial installations that provide a subtle, fresh perspective on our surroundings.
Artist trio Hari Koutlakis, Joli Boardman and Miles Dunne come together in collaboration to present NAME.
As artists working across various disciplines, this work celebrates the sculptural thought present in each of their practices. Through painting, projection and programmed LEDs, the unique approach of each artist to spatial thinking, and manipulation of surface are present within the piece.
Being close friends, all three artists have collaborated with the other two independently, however NAME is the first time they have come together as a group to present a new work.
Marc Pascal, has forged a career manipulating light and materials to evoke unique spatial and emotive experiences. He has been decorating famous Australian electronic music festivals for over two decades, creating Myriads of original and practical large scale festival lighting installations.
Using discarded materials, R Ryouiki creates installations and stage environments that exist between biology and machinery, nature and artificiality, and the primitive and the near future. His work explores life emerging from chaos, mutation, and transformation, forming new ecosystems and immersive spaces. The “R” derives from the Reptilian Brain, reflecting an interest in instinct, survival, and the forces that drive evolution.
Two large twisted pillars to mark and celebrate the entrance down into the festival. Made of raw hardwood to compliment the natural setting, they are twisted and permeable to convey a gentle sense of movement when viewed from any angle - but especially when walking between the two.
3 meters high of twisting, hidden color and allure to act as a guide for all who pass by.
These Twisted Pillars are internally illuminated for a surprise night time delight.