Nightshifters & Hold

Overview

A visual adventure awaits! Nightshifters is a video art installation of magical proportions. Under the cover of dark night eight contemporary video and new media artists will breathe new life into the postmodern industrial performance space that is CarriageWorks. CarriageWorks has commissioned Cordelia Beresford, Alexis Destoop, Sam James, Kate Murphy, Angelica Mesiti, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Dominic Redfern and John Tonkin to use their video art installations to create a hyper-real blend of architecture, space, light and sound in exploration of nocturnal visual alchemy. As part of Performace Space's Live Live series, Nightshifters explores the notion of 'liveness' through the conceptualisation of video art as a live performance. Far from our usual understanding of video imagery projected onto indifferent surfaces, these installations integrate with and transform the space around them, enlivening and infusing the beautiful architecture and its surrounds with a little visual magic.

Also part of the Live Live series is Hold in which installation artist David Cross invites you to experience a gigantic inflatable fun house of co-dependence, fear and interpersonal faith in this trust-testing installation piece. Cross' work invites game punters to venture down an inflatable platform in a dark, tight space guided only by a stranger in a bid to explore our limits and fears in a truly visceral experience. Leave your trust issues at the door.