Events

Underbelly: public arts lab & festival 2008

The first inaugural Underbelly: public arts lab and festival took over CarrriageWorks 3-14 July 2007, bringing over 100 of Sydney’s fringe artists together for a ten-day public-access artist residency, finishing with a one day music and arts festival which completely sold out! With the overwhelming response, amazing artists installations and performances, Underbelly is now an annual event and set to happen again in Sydney 2008 from June 30 to July 15.

A social and artistic experiment of sorts, the Underbelly Public Arts Lab is about creating a space for artists to collaborate, exchange, rehearse and cross-pollinate in a communal environment, whilst inviting the public to witness and engage in this process first hand. The lab is open for free to the public to watch and interact with works evolving daily and special open rehearsal sessions for music and theatre.

The Underbelly Festival transforms CarriageWorks into a massive indoor music and arts festival, showcasing an unpredictable collection of performance, music, digital media and art installation. As well as featuring performances and works produced during the ten-day lab, there will also be talks panels, DJ’s, VJs, live music, bars and cafes.

2007 Artists include: Aural Adventures, Entropic, Kate Smith & Drew Fairley, Lynda Roberts & Ceri Hann, Meem, Miss Death & Jay Katz, Pig Island, Pixel Vision, Pork, post, Power Media Industries, Reef Knot, Stephanie Carrick & Sumugan Sivanesan, Tesseract, Tetronomicon, The Synaesthesia Collective, The Vespertine Project, Token Imagination, Trevor Brown (The Distillery).

Watch art in the making, shot on mobile phones each day of the 10 day lab, click on Underbelly TV on the Underbelly site.