Edge of Elsewhere

Overview

An edgy, awe-inspiring fusion of multi-cultural artwork is set to light up suburban Sydney’s consistently brilliant Campbelltown Arts, as part of the Sydney Festival. Edge Of Elsewhere, a three-year project that celebrates the various cultural layers of Sydney, will feature 13 contemporary works out of Asia, the Pacific and Australia. And being the project’s final year, they’ve knocked together some pretty fascinating stuff.

New Zealand performance artist Shigeyuki Kihara, who has shown at New York City’s Met Museum in the past, delivers a live show inspired by the German colonisation of Samoa in the early 1900s. It was a time when Samoan families were exhibited in human zoos. Also contributing is indigenous Australian artist and political activist Richard Bell, who will present a documentary about the infamous Aboriginal rights’ protests at Musgrave Park in 1982. It will be the first time the doco has ever been shown. Then there’s Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, a Vietnamese-based artist who attempted to run 12,000 kilometers, the diameter of the Earth, to raise awareness surrounding refugees.

Edge Of Elsewhere will also show at the 4A Centre For Contemporary Asian Art in Haymarket. Get amongst it.