Sublimely subjective
ON community sports events, it’s sad to see the demise of the annual fundraiser Run Geelong, which Cotton On has scrapped after nine years. THE creative team behind one of the highlights of the inaugural WinterWild festival is returning next month with another hallucinatory experience.
Live art piece The Subject, presented in the disused Beech Forest stone quarry, returns to the 2018 festival after a sell-out show last year.
Artist Arie Rain Glorie and design practice These Are The Projects We Do Together have also teamed up for another journey through the 86,000sq m quarry.
Called The Sublime, the 40-minute audio and visual tour aims to have participants oscillating between awe and terror as artificial intelligence guides their every step.
“The quarry is a great place to situate this work, because it represents nature as well as industrialisation,” Glorie said.
“The romantics, who came up with the idea of the sublime, were warning against the consequences of industrialisation.
“It’s satirical, because I don’t think it would be possible for AI’s to understand something that is fundamentally a phenomenon of human perception.”
Sound artist Samaan Fleck intensifies the experience.
The Subject will be held on August 10, while The Sublime will run eight times across August 11-12.
WinterWild’s 2018 opening weekend will also feature gigs by Tropical F**k Storm, Adalita and RVG at The Mech, plus spoken word poetry by acclaimed writer Richard Cornish.