Carriageworks Unveils Its 2018 Program
The lineup features a voguing ball, a panic-attack themed opera and the largest exhibition the precinct has ever presented.
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Carriageworks, Eveleigh's multifaceted arts precinct, has just announced its lineup for 2018. All our favourites — Biennale, Fashion Week, Night Markets — are returning for another year and there's a host of new artists, food initiatives and festivals added to the program, too.
The season will kick off with 8000 metres of vibrant material suspended within the public space. Renowned German artist Katharina Grosse will spend a month creating the immersive artwork entitled The Horse Trotted Another Couple Of Metres, Then It Stopped.
In February, there'll be plenty of rainbows and glitter when The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrates its 40th anniversary. Resident company, Moogahlin Performing Arts will present Koori Gras, which includes BlackNulla Cabaret and a series of talks exploring the Indigenous queer experience. Also in February is The Backstories: Moya Dodd, a solo performance by an ex-Matilda and one of the first women on FIFA's Executive Committee.
Another highlight is The Howling Girls, a world premiere presented by the Sydney Chamber Opera. The performance, based on real-life events, is a curious story of panic attacks and shared trauma in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Five teenage girls present separately to hospitals, unable to swallow and believing debris from the attack is stuck in their throats.
Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda will use sound and light to lead audiences to the point at which art and quantum physics meet in micro macro. American visual artist Nick Cave (no, not that one) will transform the public space into a sea of millions of beads and found objects for Until — the largest scale exhibition Carriageworks has presented to date.
Open Frame — an experimental music festival — will return for the 2018 season with a lineup of local and international artists curated by composer Lawrence English. Sydney Writers' Festival will call Carriageworks home for the first time in 2018.
There'll also be a rich food program with the continuation of Mike McEnearney's Farmers Markets and the popular Night Markets. A new series, Sydney Mad Mondays — hosted together with René Redzepi's (of Copenhagen's Noma) MAD — will bring together experts from across the food industry to discuss the future of food — think eating insects, test tube meat patties and feeding the world's homeless.
To view the full lineup and buy tickets head to carriageworks.com.au.
