World Premiere
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The Electric Canvas (Australia)
Cacophony: The Art of Conflict
Presented by Melbourne Festival,
The Electric Canvas and Red Energy
As a 100% Australian-owned company based in
Melbourne, we’re putting our energy into making
our hometown shine. That’s why Red Energy is proud
to be the Major Partner of The Electric Canvas. At this
year’s Melbourne Festival, The Electric Canvas, another
great Australian company, will illuminate Melbourne’s Art
Precinct with breath-taking light projections.
We hope you come and visit.
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The illuminating creativity of
The Electric Canvas transforms
the Arts Centre into an
incandescent riot of light, colour
and movement – an eye-catching
centrepiece for this year’s
Festival precinct.
From across the Yarra River it catches your
eye – flickering globules and streaks of
brightly coloured light, strafing and playing
across the surface of the Arts Centre. But
follow the lights across Princes Bridge and
you’ll soon discover the main event: the
opposing walls of Hamer Hall and the State
Theatre turned from banal concrete into a
fantastical playground of dancing, swirling
and seemingly competing projections.
At times random, at times coalescing into
shapes of great beauty, there’s a story being
told here, if you’d care to sit down and
watch for a while.
Welcome to Cacophony, the brand new,
captivating and typically audacious light
show from Australian projection art
pioneers, The Electric Canvas. Taking one
of Melbourne’s most recognisable public
spaces and constructing a hypnotic and
dazzling light show around the individual
shapes and contours of its architecture,
this is public art at its most wondrous
and inclusive.
The Electric Canvas has an impressive
track record of creating breathtaking works
around the world, developing awe-inspiring
displays for events such as the audience
projections at the Vancouver Winter
Olympics Opening Ceremony and the
launch of Malaysia’s Petronas Towers. Its
Northern Lights exhibit at Adelaide Festival
in 2008 was a sensation, and so beloved it
was reworked and restaged two years later
due to popular demand.
Completely free and showing every night
from dusk until late, Cacophony will light up
the heart of the 2011 Melbourne Festival.
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Event Information
the Arts Centre, exterior
Thu 6 – Sat 22 Oct dusk – late
FREE
melbournefestival.com.au
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Production Partner