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Cthuluscene - Megan Beckwith
What will your body be, and how will it behave in a virtual future? Cthuluscene explores the transformative nature of the digital to discover different notions of gender, physicality, and the post-human. Through animation, motion capture, and dance, new physical forms expand the idea of the human body and dance performance. This work draws on the ideas of diverse bodies, and the post-human through the image of the Cthuluscene. The Cthuluscene is a post-human body caught between times, living both in the past and the future. Just like its Sci-Fi namesake, the Cthulhu, the Chthuluscene is a mixed assemblage and cyborg conglomeration of parts drawn from a range of human, animal, and technical elements.
On display 5pm-10am daily throughout Mar
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Anvár - Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson
WA friends, this ones for you!
You’re invited to experience Kickstart artist Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson’s work Anvár. Two years in the making, this immersive film-poem, explores the spiritual literature of Baháʼu’lláh, called the Seven Valleys and Four Valleys.
Tue 28 Mar, Tue 4 Apr, Tue 11 Apr, Tue 18 Apr
7pm — 7:30pm
The creative development of Anvár is supported by Next Wave Kickstart 2022, and the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
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Dead Ends and Detours - Bruno Booth
Leisuretime I — Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca Mccauley
Image: Dead Ends and Detours Bruno Booth. Photo: Duncan Wright (2022)
Image credit: “Cthuluscene” (2023), Megan Beckwith. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Image credit: “Cthuluscene” (2023), Megan Beckwith. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Image: Courtesy of the artist (2021)
Image: Saluhan x Next Wave presents: Radical Hospitality – Kain Na Tayo! Photography: MJ Flamiano. Art Direction: Catherine Ortega-Sandow
Image: Saluhan x Next Wave presents: Radical Hospitality – Kain Na Tayo! Photography: MJ Flamiano. Art Direction: Catherine Ortega-Sandow
Hyperlocal Headlines
On display: Sat 11 ⏤ Sun 26 Jun
📍 Across Siteworks
📍 TwoSixty
📍 Queen Victoria Women’s Centre
Get involved: Work Sessions
Sat 11 & Tues 14 Jun
📍 Siteworks
📍 Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Brinbeal, Foyer, 210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Drop-in session
Sun 12 Jun (no ticket required)
📍 Siteworks
How does language influence our world view, or reveal our biases? Will the future of news be hyperlocal or distributed? Who writes it, how is it accessed, and who controls it?
Hyperlocal Headlines takes place as a series of artist-facilitated creative conversations and collective storytelling and writing sessions that imagine the future of news. Participants will become citizen journalists for a day, learning to collaborate with AI technologies, understand media bias and language, and explore how the ways we tell stories can impact collective futures.
Participants’ narrative and poetic speculations will be broadcast as website interventions and on three public digital news tickers across Naarm/Melbourne.
Get involved:
Public Work Session 1
Sat 11 Jun
1-4pm
📍 Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Brinbeal, Foyer, 210 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Drop-in session
Sun 12 Jun
Anytime between 1-4pm
No ticket required
📍 Siteworks, Community Room, 33 Saxon St, Brunswick
Public Work Session 2
Tues 14 Jun
6-9pm
📍 Siteworks, Community Room, 33 Saxon St, Brunswick
The Work Sessions are free to attend, and a limited number of $100 payments are available for any participants who are unwaged workers or concession card holders.
Artist Bio
Make or Break devise and experiment with process-based projects that are co-authored with communities they are invited into. These have included creating experimental economies and temporary currencies; caring for civic spaces; celebrating the labour of strangers; prototyping future worlds; writing speculative fiction and facilitating conversations as collective research.
Accessibility
Auslan interpretation will be available for the Work Session on the 14 June. We would love to support your attendance. To share or confirm any access requirements with Next Wave for either of the two sessions, please email ticketing@nextwave.org.au by 04 June.
All work sessions are wheelchair accessible. Please contact ticketing@nextwave.org.au if you have any questions.
Learn about Access at our venue Siteworks here.
Learn about Access at our venue Queen Victoria Women’s Centre here
Hyperlocal Headlines was commissioned by Next Wave for Next Wave Festival through Kickstart. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.
Image: Hyperlocal Headlines. Photo: Jacquie Manning (2022)