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This May a swell of powerful and thought-provoking artists from across Australia will bring fresh, diverse perspectives to the fore of Next Wave Festival, Australia’s biennial festival of the new generation in art.
For three decades, Next Wave has shaped the Australian arts landscape, facilitating a vital international market development for the next generation of Australian art. The biennial festival encourages interdisciplinary practice and fosters the creation and presentation of works by emerging and early career artists working across a broad range of art forms, including dance, theatre, visual arts, performance, new media, and literature.
In 2016 Artistic Director, Georgie Meagher has gathered together some of the most intelligent, and powerful artists from across Australia to amplify quiet voices, celebrate diverse perspectives and explore interconnectedness across its program.
“There are many issues facing society which can be difficult to understand and live comfortably within; we are embracing confusion and disagreement in this festival, bringing together artists that push us to think about the relations between our lives, our politics and our universe”, says Meagher.
From Northcote to North Melbourne, from Collingwood to the CBD, the festival exists in geographic clusters of free and ticketed activity. Thirty-six world premiere works featured across the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung lands of Kulin country will be on show, as well as a number of initiatives unique to the 2016 Festival including 20 plus projects developed through the Kickstart and Emerging Curators Program.
Next Wave Festival 2016
5 to 22 May, 2016
Melbourne
Amrita Hepi, Passing
Photograph: Lucy Alcorn, Art Direction Vanessa Varghese
Courtesy the artist
Rafaella McDonald and Natasha Gabriella Tontey, Angkot Alien, 2016
Photograph: Grandyos Zafna
Courtesy the artists
