MCA's 25th Birthday Weekend

Overview

The Museum of Contemporary Art is 25 years young and throwing a huge, three-day party to celebrate.

The gallery has commissioned four new, interactive performance pieces to celebrate the occasion. Lauren Brincat and Bree van Reyk's Molto Echo encourages visitors to ring bells, and listen out for drumming in response, in an artwork intended to shed light on the invisibility of women in art galleries and exhibitions. Hossein Ghaemi, Jess Olivieri and Techa Noble will also showcase performance works created especially for the birthday, while Lyndal Jones will re-perform a piece that was shown as part of the MCA's first exhibitions in 1992.

The gallery is also putting on a large number of other events, including talks and debates from artists. Most of the events over the course of the weekend are free, with one very notable exception – the opportunity to tour the gallery completely nude with artist Steven Ringholt after hours on Friday night or before it opens on Saturday morning.

And, because it wouldn't be a birthday party without it, you're also invited to share the MCA's birthday cake (which is being impeccably designed by Clifford Liu of Cakes by Cliff with Sydney artists Nicole Barakat and Brook Morgan) in a picnic on the lawns at 12.30pm on Saturday, November 12.