From 2 to 20 July, the annual Illuminate Adelaide celebrates its fifth edition – artists and creatives bringing Adelaide to life with art, light, music and technology.
A city-wide spectacle, this year’s program includes nine world premieres and twenty-three Australian exclusive launches. Among the highlights are Night Visions at Adelaide Botanic Garden, a sensory journey comprising a portal of parallel dimensions utilising cutting-edge light, lasers, projections and sound; Adelaide exclusive Horizons at Adelaide Oval, which transforms the site using drones, light, sound and sky into a living, breathing canvas; and City Lights, where – part of the free program – some of the city’s most cherished cultural institutions and heritage buildings, including Government House, Bonython Hall and the Art Gallery of South Australia, are lit up by local, national and international artists.
Night Visions. Photograph: Tyr Liang Xplorer Studio4. Courtesy Illuminate Adelaide, South Australia
Night Visions and Horizons are new to this year’s program. In Night Visions, UK light sculpture artist Amelia Kosminsky, Melbourne audio-visual creator Robin Fox, Sydney site-responsive projection artist Craig Walsh, and South Australians Jayden Sutherland – founder of The Bakery Design Co – and Chris Petridis – a lighting designer and Night Visions’ Associate Creative Director – unite with Melbourne-based composer and sound designer Jethro Woodward for an other-worldly vision, blending the site’s natural after-dark beauty with colour and sound. In Horizons, human connection spanning 60,000 years is explored – from the banks of the River Torrens’ deep cultural significance as a gathering place for the Kaurna people, to a recent stage for legendary sporting moments, to an inspiring future.
Illuminate Adelaide includes both free and ticketed events.
