Utopia & (r)evolution
Presented by the Switchboard Project
The Switchboard Project brings together visual artists, musicians, writers, poets and other performers together to explore the border between art and experience.
Art, conversation and an Arty Party!
In January 2021 the U.S. President sent armed insurrectionists to storm Congress and then retreated to his palace to watch the ensuing fear, blood and chaos on TV.
Fidel Castro said that revolutions are a struggle between the future and the past. Why struggle? Living in the past does not build a better tomorrow. How can we rise? What do we need to acknowledge and how can we evolve?
Artists Dany Avanzini and Tammy Lorcan explore these questions with paint, embroidery, cloth and charcoal. Their works juxtapose classical portraiture with emerging multi-media practice.
Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine while you spend the afternoon in conversation at our Symposium on Utopia and Revolution. Join leading thinkers, young and old, as we explore how the arts influence the paths we choose, or whether the art we create is a reflection of our choices?
The energy crescendos after dark. Musicians, poets and projection artists unite in a fusion of electronics and contemporary classical performances at an Arty Party culminating in a Symphony for the Third Millennium.
Program
27 March 9am - 10pm & 28 March 9am-4pm
Exhibiting artists:
Tammy Lorcan & Dany Avanzini
Tickets: Free
A symposium on (r)evolution
Is utopia the hot fever dream of the idealist or is the aspiration to live in a perfect state a key part of what makes us human? Is it achieved through revolution, evolution or neither? There are countless artistic depictions of utopia, but can art influence which path we choose, or is the art we create a reflection of that choice?
27th March 2pm
Tickets: $10
The Arty Party
Music by:
Luminescence String Quartet
Bernard Composer
Matt Page
Jacob Wortfield & Matt Dennett
Spoken word and projection art by:
Reverse Butcher & Kylie Supski
27th March 7pm
Tickets: $25