Australia’s newest major event, Illuminate Adelaide today unveiled its program of light, music, art, innovation and immersive experiences and will see the return of last years favourite Light Cycles at the Botanic Gardens and the free city-wide centrepiece City Lights as well as a huge line-up of musical acts such as Gorillaz, KLASSIK underground and electronic music event Unsound.
Taking place from 1–31 July, the second iteration of Illuminate Adelaide will see more than 40 free works over 17 days, it will be a brand new program of boundary-pushing local and international artists who will reimagine laneways, street fronts and open spaces across the city in three precincts: North, East and West.
“We are delighted to be supporting Illuminate Adelaide through the South Australian Tourism Commission,” said Minister for Tourism Zoe Bettison.
“Illuminate Adelaide celebrates our commitment to the tourism, arts and technology sectors and enables South Australia to be viewed on the world stage as an innovator and leader in these fields.
“We are one of the world’s great creative cities and this event generates job opportunities for thousands of South Australians across the arts, technology, hospitality and tourism sectors.”
Illuminate Adelaide co-founders and creative directors, Rachael Azzopardi and Lee Cumberlidge added “We are looking forward to welcoming hundreds of thousands of South Australians and visitors to our state and into our city to participate in a massive program of free and ticketed events across the month of July.”
In an Australian premiere and Illuminate Adelaide exclusive, the Istanbul-based visionaries at Ouchhh Studio feature their work with NASA and CERN as well as the work of Leonardo da Vinci in their major exhibition Wisdom of AI Light – An AI-driven multisensory experience that’s putting the art in artificial intelligence.
Housed in a massive, specially designed projection pavilion constructed in the East End of the Adelaide CBD, it’s a work of extraordinary scale and vision from the pioneers of data paintings and sculptures, which takes the viewer on a journey through art and science from the Renaissance to the future.
Ouchhh Studio is Illuminate Adelaide’s 2022 Luminary Artist In Residence, and in addition to Wisdom of AI Light, the Studio will also present Ocean Data at Light Adelaide as part of the City Lights program and Ouchhh Studio directors Ferdi Alici and Eylul Alici can be heard in conversation at an artist keynote address.
Long before online concerts and festivals became a thing, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett seamlessly meshed art, music and technology together to create the world’s greatest virtual band.
Now, having turned this playful experiment into an enduring and innovative global phenomenon2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs are set to perform for one night only in Adelaide.
Illuminate Adelaide’s free city-wide centrepiece city Lights returns with a new series of immersive installations, artworks and large-scale activations set to turn Adelaide’s most iconic streetscapes into a night-time adventure of colour and sound.
This Australian-first production from celebrated Montreal studio Moment Factory enchants the senses in a series of installations using lights, audio, video and special effects to take audiences on a magical journey. In an Australian premiere, Joanna Dudley’s operatic video installation We Will Slam You With Our Wings steals from some of history’s most notoriously sexist speeches and recasts them into a feminist war cry echoing through the ages.
A seven-channel video piece, each screen depicts a 19th-century colonial imperialistic portrait, with one noticeable difference: instead of a lavish depiction of white powerful men, six young girls, each from a different continent, stand in their own room and own frame with Dudley in the seventh.
After a sold-out 2021 world premiere season, Light Creatures is back to take audiences behind the gates of Adelaide Zoo after dark. This captivating twist on the animal kingdom is brought to life by the talents of local and interstate artists, commissioned to create lanterns and illuminations.
International series KLASSIK underground will make its Australian debut, transforming Adelaide’s Dom Polski Centre into an up-close and immersive concert series combining classical music with live visuals from leading Australian artists Globetrotting Australian violist, member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and founder of KLASSIK underground, Tahlia Petrosian, will direct the collaboration between a star-studded ensemble of musicians and Australia’s foremost visual artists including CAPITAL WASTE (Liam Somerville), Robin Fox and Margie Medlin.
The Illuminate Adelaide 2022 music program will also feature Unsound Adelaide – the international celebration of cutting edge experimental and electronic music-returning to its spiritual home in the southern hemisphere. Program highlights include heavy hitter Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O collaborating with experimental musician Kali Malone, frequent collaborators and mind-bending performers Sinjin Hawke (USA) & Zora Jones (Austria), 700 Bliss (USA) the take-no-prisoners duo of DJ Haram and Moor Mother and Australian cult favourites HTRK, as well as the late-night Unsound Club at The Lab, with Air Max ’97, Corin and more.
Nexus Arts will play host to a collaboration between Chinese-Australian avant-garde composer Mindy Meng Wang and Melbourne-based Tim Shiel. Having released their critically acclaimed EP ‘Nervous Energy’ in 2021 this will be one of the first chances for listeners to see the duo’s live sonic splendour and actualisation of their project.
Shining a light on South Australia and its regions for the month of July, Illuminate Adelaide welcomes people from all walks of life to experience a program of free and ticketed events by local, national and international artists and companies.
Illuminate Adelaide will take place from 01–31 July 2022.
For more information and tickets, visit their website.
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