2024 SUPERDRIVE PROJECTS

SUPERDRIVE is an APHIDS program where co-directors join mid-career artists to create a new project. These include dramaturgy, directing, producing, auspicing and strategic supporting roles to co-build a future for experimental work. Recent and upcoming projects include:

COOKED

Long Prawn and friends are bringing the spirit of democracy sausage to Fed Square where the hot plate meets the stage in a Festival-long pop-up dedicated to the art of grilling – and where grilling meets art.

Original Concept Amrita Hepi, Long Prawn and Mikhail Rodrick, Architect Mikhail Savin Rodrick Projects, BBQ Mike Hewson, Lead Producer Georgia Harvey, Dramaturgy Lara Thoms.

888 REST

An ambient meditation on care and control, digital detoxing, and the commodification of relaxation by the neoliberal machine. Also, paradoxically, the immense labour required to create a work about rest.

Created by Harriet Gillie &Marcus Mckenzie, Dramaturg Lara Thoms. Rising Festival 2024

The First Bad Man

A performative book club that lives the fiction of Miranda July’s debauched classic.

Co created by Mish Grigor and Pan Pan Theatre. Rising Festival 2024

RINSE

A solo dance work by choreographer and First Nations artist Amrita Hepi  that explores the romance of beginnings and what happens next, when those initial thrills begin to fade and inertia takes over.

Created by Amrita Hepi Directed by Mish Grigor, Liveworks, Performance Space at Carriageworks and tFusebox Festival, Austin.