EDGE Sydenham 10 August Program
Bhima the Dragon (2018) at the Fire Garden by Tortuga Studios. Photographer: Grant Robinson.
Fire up Sydenham!
10 August, 4pm to 10.30pm - Sydenham Green and Sydenham Green Skate Park
Edge culminates in a hair-raising finale fuelled by Sydney’s most dynamic creatives. Bring along family and friends and skates, food trucks on site.
Watch an adrenaline pumped roller derby demo by Inner West Roller Derby League. See the concrete playground of the skate park transformed into an electronic wonderland of movement, technology, art and light by Elecktro SK8, curated by Dr Lian Loke and Ruchi Chhikara - this is where humans, creativity and technology collide.
Later the Fire Garden by Tortuga Studios roars into life as the sun slinks over the horizon. Over 40 artists, fire-based installations, interactive works, sculptures, projections, live music, DJ's, camp fires and more. This free art event will ignite your senses and possibly blow your mind!
“Fire’s real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences” Fahrenheit 451
Saturday night events in detail
Roller Derby
An adrenaline pumped roller derby demo from Inner West Roller Derby League
Where: Sydenham Green Skate Park, 25 Railway Road, Sydenham
When: Saturday 10 August, 4 to 5pm
ElectroSK8
Over 24 artists in partnership with the University of Sydney Design Lab. Humans, creativity and technology collide transforming the concrete playground of the skate park into an electronic wonderland of movement, technology, art and light.
Where: Sydenham Green Skate Park, 25 Railway Road, Sydenham
When: Saturday 10 August, 4.30 to 10.30pm
Program schedule and details below:
5pm - Event starts with digital activation. The skatepark is open to the public with live DJ's and ongoing projections and performances
6pm - SonicSk8 short performance by skaters (skateboarders and roller skaters)
8pm - State of Emergency performance by physical performers
10.30pm - Event closes
1. Skate Doodle
Xiaoyun Hu, Bing Jiang, Yi Zhao
A unique interactive experience for skaters and spectators. The motion tracks of skaters generate glitch visual effects. Spectators can add splash colours and messages to the projection display via a mobile app.
2. Light Land
Negar Hosseini, Jessica Karlsson, Melissa Ridgley
An interactive game for young skaters and beginners that teaches the fundamental skills of skateboarding in a fun and playful environment.
3. SonicSk8
Ollie Bown, Sam Ferguson, Angelo Fraietta, Liam Bray, Lian Loke, Peter Crawley, Avram Winston, Zam Zubairy
Four skaters work together to create an emergent sonic composition riffing on the nostalgia of 8-bit synthesized electronic music, as their movements are captured and translated via a wearable sound system.
4. Contours
Elektra Jiang
Surface is an audio visualisation artwork projecting onto skatepark ramps. In sync with live beats, it takes the skaters and viewers on a journey that travels through time and space. As a fusion of music, projection, and movement, it creates an unique and futuristic sensory experience.
5. Ball Pit
Ruchi Chhikara
Who doesn't like a ball pit! You can jump in it, throw balls around and break the peace. This interactive projection aims to simulate a ball pit that skaters can skate through and jumble up.
6. Light Trails
Ruchi Chhikara
There is an immense amount of energy within skaters, be it on boards or blades. Kinetic and potential within them is converted to excitement, thrill and joy! Electrified is a short film reel aimed at capturing this energy. Skaters will be given interactive light costumes which will capture their movements and the changes in energy in various ways.
7. State of Emergency
Lian Loke, Marty Jay, Anz Easaw, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Paul Walker
As environmental and political events collide, a state of emergency is nigh. But who is prepared for rescue missions and basic survival -if all you have in your kit is gaffa tape, a holey tarp and a crate?!
8. THRUST
Luke Hespanhol / Yuxin Huang
To every push, a pull. To every impulse, a relief. To every action, a reaction. To every pressure, a release.
THRUST is an audio-responsive light installation designed to express with visual patterns the grace and strength of skateboarding. Suspended in the air, filling up the space, THRUST turns the Sydenham skate park gazebo into digital temple - riding into ritual - atmospheric street sounds into hypnotic luminous trance.
The Fire Garden by Tortuga Studios
“Fire’s real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences” Fahrenheit 451
Part fronded beauty, part jungle beast, the Fire Garden is set to roar into life as the sun slinks over the horizon. Over 40 artists, fire-based installations, interactive works, sculptures, projections, live music, DJ's, camp fires and more beneath the jet trails at Sydenham Green.
This free art event will ignite your senses and possibly blow your mind !
Described as ‘a vagabond plot of wild beauty,’ The Fire Garden is brought to you by Tortuga Studios, St Peters largest and longest running warehouse arts space, alongside some of Australia’s most eclectic industrial artists, including Dillon MacEwen, Garth Knight, Alien Proof, Rachael Lafferty, Jasmine Poole, Icarus Productions, Murray Adams, Rogue Simian and more.
Where: Sydenham Green Park, Railway Road, Sydenham
When: Saturday 10 August, 4pm to 10.30pm
More at Tortuga Studios website
Fire Garden Program
5.30-6.15pm DJ Lexx feat. @outrageous entertainment
6.30-7.15pm The Loud Hailers
7.15-7.25pm Icarus Productions – stilt immolation
7.30-8.15pm DJ Mashy Pea
8.15-8.30pm Nik Nak vs Abstract Doll
8.30-9.30pm White Knuckle Fever
9.30-10.30pm DJ Jenn Moore
10.30-10.45pm IKARA live burn performance
Explore Tortuga Studio’s fire-fuelled garden, with its otherworldly mechatronic creatures, raging Mad Max machines, and whimsical auras of flickering light. Brought to you by over 40 artists, makers, musicians and performers, it stands as testament to the talent forged in the warehouse arts spaces of the inner west.
Heaps Gay presents Femmebot
LGBTQIA Party Starters, Heaps Gay, have curated a melting pot of queer artists to bring site specific works reflecting on changes to queer spaces with gentrification. FEMMEBOT, an immersive party experience at Sydenham's famous The Red Rattler Theatre
Where: The Red Rattler Theatre, 6 Faversham Street, Marrickville
When: Saturday 10 August, 9.30pm onwards
Limited capacity tickets $19 - $30
Ticket details at HeapsGay Facebook page
Saturday Community day celebrations
Marrickville Metro community celebrations - Saturday, 10 August
The following events all take place at Centre Management, Marrickville Metro, 34 Victoria Road, Marrickville
Community day
A free community celebration at one of Marrickville’s oldest original cottages dating back to 1860. Restorative works have returned the cottage to its full glory. Free event. All ages. Refreshments served.
When: 10am to 12.30pm
Artist Talk with Liz Shreeve
Liz talks about her public artwork in development for Smidmore Street. Learn about the creative process for this work embracing the history of the site– Aboriginal communities, the woollen mills, the migrants and families who built and shaped the textile industry for which Marrickville became famous. And now, contemporary Marrickville.
When: 10.30am
Free art workshops
Free Art workshops. Open to all ages. Create a colourful artwork reflecting your life and stories.
When: 11am to 12.30pm
More at the Marrickville Metro website