Festivals
UPDATED: Illuminate Adelaide’s Light Cycles experience in the Botanic Garden returns from tonight for an extended season, with other outdoor activations also set to light up again after SA’s pandemic lockdown forced a sudden halt to the festival last week.
Visual Art
Contemporary Adelaide artist Jason Sims admits he feels a sense of both trepidation and release when one of his public artworks is installed in its new home. His latest futuristic perception-challenging creation has been unveiled in the CBD.
The vivid animatronic skink turning heads in Adelaide Zoo’s Light Creatures after-dark experience features artwork by Elizabeth Close that reflects First Nations peoples’ connection to Country and stories passed down through generations.
Adelaide’s newest winter festival officially lights up the city from this week. InReview shares highlights and tips from the creative directors on how to make the most of their 17-day program of live events and illuminating after-dark experiences.
One half of Australian plunderphonic band The Avalanches explains how music can contain snippets of a person’s being, and why harnessing their own music in new ways for Illuminate Adelaide is extending the life of their art.
Van Gogh Alive has landed in Adelaide to brighten up winter with a multi-sensory extravaganza depicting the life and work of post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. It will delight and dazzle many, but purists may need to proceed with caution.
