Aphids Events Inc
An artist led cultural organisation creating collaborations across art forms and borders.
projects/FLYWAY
Carlton - Docklands

WHEN

19-22 May, 24-27 May

image: Elizabeth Dunn, 2011

http://flywayproject.net/
Elizabeth Dunn, with sound artist Lawrence English, investigates the enchanting nature of migratory birds and the annual epic, threatened journeys they make across a shifting globe in search of rest, food and a nest.
residencies-and-mentoring/Goodbye CSIRAC
Melbourne Museum

WHEN

21st - 27th MAY

Image credit: Zoe Meagher & Matthew Kneale

zoemeagher.blogspot.com
Goodbye, CSIRAC invites audiences to experience a retro sci-fi audio tour, leading visitors into the guts of the Melbourne Museum to uncover the true story of CSIRAC (pronounced ‘sigh-rack’), Australia’s first computer.
projects/Computer Boy
Carriageworks, Sydney

When:

23rd – 26th May

Time:

8pm

Bookings:

Ticketmaster
Presented by Performance Space, in association with Blood Policy and Aphids
Using contemporary performance, puppetry and machinima animation, Computer Boy is created within the 3D virtual environment of sandbox-style games like Grand Theft Auto, and evokes our culture’s anxiety about a younger generation’s increasing immersion in – and dependence on – virtual worlds.
projects/THE LADY AND THE TIGER
Westspace, Melbourne

WHEN:

8th June 6pm- 11pm

westspace.org.au

Image by Alice Hawkins
Presented by West Space and Aphids

A Ridiculous Performance by Tristan Meecham and Olivia Ilic

Would you rather be water or cheese? Would you rather sit on a pineapple or a turnip? Would you rather eat your mother or your father? Would you rather the Lady or the Tiger?
projects/Sonorities of Site
Pieces of Eight Gallery, Melbourne
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Aphids, Architecture and New Music 1998–2010

This exquisite publication is the distinctive result of original research, writing and artistic design, reflecting the visionary collaborative ethos that made possible the founding of Aphids in 1994 as an independent, artist-led organisation.
projects/Precipice
WEST SPACE, Melbourne

When:

April 13th, 7-9pm

Image credit: Briony Jackson
Presented by Aphids and West Space

An evening of eating skyscrapers, throwing paint and a death defying walk through the CBD.

PRECIPICE is a one evening party that explores the common risks in art and architecture as related to the work of Aphids and its collaborators. Curated by Willoh S.Weiland with surprise guests.
projects/METAVERSE MAKEOVERS IN SHANGHAI
JUE: MUSIC + ART FESTIVAL, SHANGHAI
ONE NIGHT ONLY: 24th March 2012

METAVERSE-MAKEOVERS.NET
A multi-faceted concept - Metaverse Makeovers fuses intimate Augmented Reality (AR) enhanced beauty treatments, streamed and networked installations, 3D photoshoots, and exclusive AR cosmetics range featuring a prismatic palette of special FX holograms.
projects/The Box
Boyd House, Kew
The Box season was SOLD OUT

17th, 18th, 21st-24th March 2012
Three of Australia’s most innovative arts companies come together to present a new chamber opera by Switzerland’s Fritz Hauser who is renowned for his explorations of sound and space, in collaboration with architect Boa Baumann (Switzerland). With a libretto by Aphids Artistic Director Willoh S. Weiland, featuring soprano soloist Deborah Kayser, a trio of Speak percussionists, and a box.
in-laboratory/Atelier Edens
IN-LABORATORY

Follow our Journey:

HERE
Creating and broadcasting from oceanic abyss, forested wilderness and inter-galactic space

ATELIER EDENS is a series of field laboratories conducted over two years sustainably creating cross-artform projects in remote natural environments.
projects/Exile
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Image Credit: Champagne Valentine
The world's first Opera for iPad.

An interactive music video, it combines the exquisite drama of Helen Gifford’s chamber opera with the extraordinarily textured generative visuals of cult digital media artists Champagne Valentine.