For 10 days in July, Gertrude Street will be bathed in light, courtesy of the artists behind the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. This year, the Festival will celebrate its 9th year of transforming Melbourne’s hippest street into one of our most visible large scale, illuminated, outdoor art galleries.
Bright lights, enticing video and perfectly positioned colour-scapes will adorn 38 sites on and around Gertrude Street injecting electric splashes of colour on almost anything you can imagine. Shop fronts, laneways, windows and footpaths will come alive with bold visions of award-winning projection artists, all exhibited for free.
Many of the key sites are back again, such as the Builders Arms, The Gertrude Hotel and the Atherton Towers..
And following the success of last year’s inaugural Mentorship Program, this year the Festival is presenting three new site-specific projects with emerging artists that explore the application of projection art through live performance, sculpture and holographic techniques. Featured artists this year include, ‘Gestural Intent’ by Nadia Faragaab,‘In Bloom’ by Brianna Hudson and ‘The Detour’ by Aphrodite Feros-Fooke and Chase Burns.
Uprising Youth Theatre will present their second installment of ‘Wheel Of Fate’, a choose-your-own adventure style performance which utilizes cutting edge mobile LED projector technology, allowing stories to be played out in non-traditionally used spaces.
Little Woods Gallery will host a series of pop-up artworks, performances, presentations and discussion groups that are driven by discursive experimentation around projection as a medium and as an idea; presenting artists include Emile Zile, Kate Brown, Arie Glorie and Emma Hall.
Once again, the Festival Hub this year is The Catfish, which will be transformed into a late night space offering a range of free and ticketed events including live performances projection artworks. Special events will include entertainment from musicians and VJs Gamer 3D, OCDANTAR, PARADISE presents Deer, Friendships and Null, Musicians 4 Hearing and a Liquid Architecture showcase.
The Gertrude Street Projection Festival artworks will be projected from 6pm until midnight every evening during the Festival.
The FULL PROGRAM can be viewed at www.gspf.com.au
Gertrude Street Projection Festival 15-24 July, each night 6pm - midnight
38 sites along Gertrude Street, Fitzroy (walk, ride or catch the tram)
FREE (excluding some special events - please see the website for details) www.gspf.com.au
