Music
Blending music, art and technology, the world’s biggest virtual band took over the Entertainment Centre for a sold-out one-night-only live performance, proving Gorillaz and Illuminate Adelaide to be a perfect match.
Festivals
As this year’s Illuminate Adelaide headliner, Istanbul-based Ouchhh Studio’s digital light show is a mesmerising and immersive spectacle, but it’s best enjoyed without any expectation that its appropriation of Renaissance art will inspire profound insights into AI-art-historical interplays.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Flinders University heralds ‘bold revival’ of drama, new director appointed at the Elder Conservatorium, 2023 Fringe poster competition opens, and navigating the City Lights works bringing a glow to Adelaide after dark.
Moving through Light Cycles in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, a visitor remarks that the experience feels like you are in the movie Avatar. It’s a description that encapsulates the otherworldly sensation of this after-dark spectacle.
Celebrated artist Vincent Namatjira is preparing to take over the frontage of the Art Gallery of South Australia with a giant animation as part of Illuminate Adelaide, in what he says is a significant career milestone.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Airport mural celebrates Adelaide’s connection to nature, UKARIA welcomes back international artists, new curator announced for OzAsia’s writing and ideas program, Doppelgänger and Zombies exhibition opens in North Adelaide, an opportunity for emerging composers and an illuminating artist talk.
