Program

Experience this ambitious world-premiere exhibition at NGV International, celebrating the illustrious career of iconic contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama.

In Home Bound, diverse rope materials and practices are woven together to create a massive social tapestry. Members of different communities who do not typically share the same space collaborate to build a giant rope installation.

An awe-inspiring exhibition and workshop series by legendary Tagata Moana (People of the Pacific) art collective, the Pacific Sisters.

A large-scale video installation takes place simultaneously on the screens of Federation Square and a civic location in Jeonju.

The shadows of children in Korea have flown across hemispheres. Can you find where they’ve landed?

Shadows in Twin Cities brings together children from Jeonju (Korea) and Melbourne (Australia) in unusual conversations between each other and their city landscapes.

Consume the sights, tastes and sounds of Punjab in this vibrant installation and performance series about migration and resilience.

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.

A free, all-day event of sarapan (‘breakfast’) and performances presented by Nongkrong Festival that transforms the Square into a space to nongkrong – or to ‘hang out’ in Bahasa Indonesia.

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.

Explore the possibilities for play and conversation across hemispheres as you meet a new friend in Jeonju, Korea via a life-size video screen.

Join us for a free, all-ages gig in the heart of the city featuring incredible international acts and local stars.

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.

Sensing Dark Matter is a VR experience merging art and physics, inviting viewers to explore a speculative universe where dark matter and its gravitational effects become perceptible.

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.

Goldfish is a ground-breaking collaboration between celebrated Tasmanian puppetry company Terrapin and Japan’s Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, with performers from Australia and Japan.

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.