Event information
- When
- 18 December 2024 - 11 May 2025
- Where
Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW 2000
- Category
- Exhibition and Shows
- Accessibility
- Welcomes people with access needs, contact venue/organiser for details
- Cost
- Free
- Facilities
- Bar
- Cafe
- Car park
- Coach Parking
- Family Friendly
- Kiosk
- Lockers
- Non-Smoking
- Parents Room
- Public Toilet
- Restaurant
- Shop / Gift Shop
Overview of this event
Angelica Mesiti has created an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath Naala Badu, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ north building.
A rich visual and sonic experience, Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When is a large-scale video and sound installation that reimagines collective and communal rituals in relation to seasonal cycles, at a time of environmental uncertainty and flux.
Mesiti adapts choreography, vocal choruses, instrumentation and collective sound-making to re-examine activities familiar to communities who have deep bonds with seasonal rhythms. Ecstatic celebrations associated with specific moments in the calendar – notably mid-winter solstice carnivals and mid-summer harvest festivals – are played out across seven monolithic screens, offering a portal into a realm alongside past and present: an imagined alternative.
Contact details
Getting there
Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW 2000
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