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Built upon sparse arrangements, Keeley’s singular, emotionally raw and magnetic vocals tell stories of the high and low tides, of freedom and entrapment, of hard-won triumphs and the darker corners of domestic life.

Immaculately enraged punk-hop. Disquieting and ferociously poetic convulsions of a society on the brink of losing its mind.

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Superhuman bass skills and astral acid jazz collide into Stephen Bruner’s wide-eyed, anime inspired musical moniker.

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Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
—Dante

Dante's journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise is fused into a single reality, retold through the eyes and bodies of an all-female identifying cast. Witness the ebbs and flows of the human experience, as explored through dance, stunts, motocross, hypnosis, and a profusion of bodily fluids.

Sunday 18 is an Auslan interpreted show.

Unflinchingly dark and danceable gothic musings from the Belarusian band, who linger at the intersection of post-punk, new-wave and synth-pop.

Life as observed through the prismatic lens of a glass ashtray, scored to the blasphemous extreme. An improvised live soundtrack to accompany Stan Brakhage’s 1974 experimental time-lapse film, performed by legendary guitarist and Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo, and musical collaborators, guitarist Alan Licht, and saxophonist Ulrich Krieger.

Surrender yourself to a frenzy of revelatory movement and ecstatic rave. From midday to midnight, a six-chapter performance ritual spits out a narrative of divine physicality. Over three days, join a cast of psychedelic characters as they push the limits of the body in pursuit of transcendental states.

A giant bear watches over you while you dance. The footage is captured and transmitted to a separate location.

The leader of Australian hip hop's new vanguard, Tasman Keith’s music is an ode to the community that raised him.

Vital narratives from the British electronic producer and musician, whose experimental approach is struck through with vulnerability, curiosity and hope.

Into the pit for a night of black metal carnage.

But I don't want comfort.
I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger,
I want freedom, I want goodness.
I want sin.
―Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

The night has a thousand eyes. Art, music, performance, cocktail lounges, punk theatre, cinema cabarets, clubs and junkyard raves—inside a sprawling metropolis.