LAST HURRAH FOR OUR PROJECTION CARAVAN ALL NOVEMBER!
NIGHTLY PROJECTIONS:
PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE JAMES STREET ENTRANCE.
MON – SUN, 7.30 – LATE. 2 NOV – 3 DEC. FREE
Ever wondered what that BIRDBATH caravan is doing stuck on the stairwell in the Cultural Centre? Last summer we built BIRDBATH, a pop-up venue next to the State Library. It included a projection caravan, screening imagery onto the monumental side of the State Library over the season.
After the venue packed up, the projections kept going, but all good things must come to an end and the BIRDBATH Caravan gets craned down start of December; to celebrate and send it off in style, the projection program is happening seven nights a week across 1st - 30th November, starting at 7.30pm each night.
The program features ‘best of’ screenings developed and commissioned in partnership with institutions in the Cultural Centre and a variety of creative talents from WA.
Featured Works
Looking Up, curated by Abigail Moncrieff and Brent Harrison for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).
Features diverse works from 1997 - 2023 by artists who call Western Australia home. The works are linked by their exploration of social and cultural ties to place, ranging from the Pilbara, East Kimberley, the Wheatbelt, Perth, Thailand and Germany.
Looking Up includes works from: Nathan Beard; Peggy Madij Griffiths; Tanya Lee; Pilar Mata Dupont; Brad Rimmer; Michele Theunissen; Curtis Taylor; Alana Hunt.
600 Seconds produced by The Blue Room Theatre.
In February, 16 artists from The Blue Room Theatre’s 600 Seconds Program shared five nights of live performances in a sea container within the BIRDBATH pop-up venue, projected in realtime onto the State Library wall above them. The performances were recorded, and are retro replayed. Projected performances include: The Golden Rules (Artists: Briannah Davis & Tom Mullane); The State (Artists: Rhiannon Bryan, Joanna Cooper & Holland Brooks); Imaginary Sounds (Artists: BLUE/ROUGE); 1.5 metres squared (Artists: Gabrielle De Vriese, Elliot Dunn, Xin Hui Ong, Sophie Sibbons & Brent Rollins); Splice (Artists: Amelia Sagrabb, Luci Young, Joanna Cooper, Estelle Brown & Xin Hui Ong)
Archive Treasures curated by the State Library of WA.
The State Library is constantly finding new ways for people to access and enjoy their incredible archive, including weekly posts on their social media accounts of curated collections of photos around a theme or a significant WA story. A range of these curated deep dives into the State Library collection are projected over the season.
Fringe Folk! produced by The Rechabite.
Over FRINGEWORLD Festival 2023 a large number of well-known Fringe artists had their portraits taken inside the BIRDBATH pop-up venue by a selection of WA photographers who share a passion for Fringe and its artists. Featured photographers include Jason Matz, Wade Ranson, Naomi Reed and Adrian Thompson. These portraits will be interspersed between other works during the last two weeks of projections.
The Worlds of Horatio T Birdbath produced by The Rechabite.
Horatio T Birdbath is a creative living legend in WA. A well-known artistic character in Freo for over fourty years, he was referred to by a previous Lord Mayor of Fremantle as the living embodiment of the artistic spirit of the town. For his entire adult life, whilst working on his own style of detailed and hand drawn murals in the public domain, Horatio has amassed an incredible body of intricate drawings, produced from inside his caravan studio. They have been professionally photographed for the first time and animated into a series of projection works.
FLOW: The Art of Horatio T Birdbath presented by Aspiral Films and The Rechabite.
A documentary about the life and artistic process of Horatio T Birdbath. Directed by Ross McCallum. Camera and Editing by Genevieve Cooper, Joy of Colour Media. Photography by Luke Wilton and James Kerr. Music by The Kill Devil Hills; Kangaroos with Machine Guns and Luke Dux; Assaf Ayalon; Desert Dive.
NIGHTLY PROJECTIONS:
PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE JAMES STREET ENTRANCE.
MON – SUN, 7.30 – LATE. 2 NOV – 3 DEC. FREE
The Projection Program was developed in partnership with The State Library of Western Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Blue Room Theatre and the Arts and Culture Trust, with funding from the Government of Western Australia through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries CBD Revitalisation Fund.
