The Subconscious Restaurant Magazine Launch Party

Overview

As you'd expect, The Red Rattler will be catapulting us into the Australia Day Long Weekend with a shindig that has little to do with flags, barbies and monosyllabic chants. In fact, The Subconscious Restaurant Magazine Launch Party is all about #smashingborders — of any kind.

The inspiration for the celebration is the launch of the third edition of the Subconscious Restaurant, an art magazine published by White Fungus. Heading up the party will be sound performance artist Betty Apple, who's a star of the experimental live art scene in Taiwan, where she lives. She'll be joined by two locals: imagination-stoking costume-performance artist Justin Shoulder and influential sound artist Lucas 'Granpa' Abela, whose achievements include "drag racing the Pope across the Sydney Harbour Bridge" and recording "chance John Peel sessions with the Flaming Lips".

Meanwhile, a multicultural experimental music extravaganza will be happening, with five DJs from Sydney, Tokyo and Taiwan: QU-zen (Sydney), DJ Meta Etcetera (Sydney), DJ Sveta (Sydney), Jimi Mased (tripple nipples Sydney/Tokyo) and Smile Buddha aka Chaos (Taiwan). They'll be spinning tunes until 3am.