The inaugural RISING festival – a multi-disciplinary art and cultural extravaganza - is set to descend on Naarm (Melbourne) Wednesday, and is being billed as the biggest artistic event hosted in Naarm since the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Internationally acclaimed and award-winning Naarm-based Gamilaroi artist Reko Rennie will premiere commissioned work Initiation OA , a large-scale three channel video work that speaks to the practice of initiation from an urban Aboriginal context.’
This deeply reflective and visually stunning multi-disciplinary work sees Rennie present modern-day men s initiation, returning to his place of birth in the west of Naarm, ‘making his mark, then leaving again.’
Exploring the wondrous RISING festival program at Arts Centre Melbourne Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon at the University of Bristol
Words By Meg Crawford
From a tribute to Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupiŋu to a supernatural forest and two seminal theatre shows, Arts Centre Melbourne has prepared something special for RISING festival.
If you’re going to start anything auspiciously, you may as well kick off on a full lunar eclipse, which is exactly when Melbourne’s brand-spanking new cultural extravaganza, RISING, presses go. For 12 days starting Wednesday May 26, RISING will sprawl the city and bring live music, art, theatre, installations and everything in between to different districts, including The Birrarung, Midtown and Chinatown.
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