Program

Exclusively yours after-hours, explore the largest exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s work ever staged in Australia in a world-premiere exhibition featuring kaleidoscopic infinity mirror rooms, dancing pumpkins and immersive installations.

Shapeshifters is Asia TOPA’s sacred arena for performers and musicians who fluidly morph between bodies, cultures, space and time.

Join artist Aki Onda and Curator Lawrence English in conversation as they discuss the inspirations behind Middle of a Moment – Onda’s first survey of his installation work in

In the first part of this 2-hour workshop, the choreographers and dancers of Gapu Ngupan (Chasing the Rainbow) will explain the background of the traditional movements and gestures and give an experience of traditional movement from Yolngu and Paiwan cultures.

Dive into the relationship between visual art and contemporary dance in this conversation between celebrated choreographer Melanie Lane, Jeff Khan (Creative Director, Asia TOPA) and Amita Kirpalani (Curator of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria).

This workshop will empower participants to creatively explore electronic instruments for idea generation, be that musical or otherwise.

90’s fashion activists Pacific Sisters are renowned for paving the way for subsequent generations of Pasifika contemporary artists, including FAFSWAG, the South Auckland based Arts Collective that experienced a meteoric rise in the global arts screen over the past decade.

乒乒乓乓 pin-pin-piàng-piàng pulls together the most innovative club artists from across the Asia-Pacific to create a genre-fluid experience steeped in Naarm/Melbourne’s iconic rave culture.

YIRRAMBOI’s immersive club night invites you to step into a world reimagined.

Journeying through themes of migration, histories and inheritance, A silence that sits invites participants to bring family photographs and share stories through song, writing and speech.

Pioneering choreographer, raymond d.blanco reflects on four decades of making art with and alongside his family.

Process Lab is an event series bringing together creatives from the Performing Arts industry to delve into the creative process of making contemporary work. 

Zones for outer orbit sound worlds, post-world atmospheres and deep rift drifts.

Sydney’s celebrated CLUB 4A descends on Melbourne for Night Vision.

THE B_B unites performance priestesses Betty Apple and Betty Grumble in a transcendent dance ritual where digital mystics become flesh, pussy power meets sonic protest and the B-side of reality erupts into collective ecstasy.