The Sydney Opera House today launched its first new festival in five years, BINGEFEST: a 24-hour celebration of addictive storytelling, performance art, journalism, video games, pop culture icons, podcast trailblazers – and cats.
“The Opera House is about exploring and reflecting the culture around us as its morphs and evolves,”BINGEFEST founder and curator, Danielle Harvey, said of the inspiration for the new festival.“Television, podcasts, gaming and the internet at large create an artistic frame through which we view the world.
“Over the last few years, we have tried to push the boundaries of what audiences can expect to see at the Opera House – from Michael Cera to Ira Glass, Alan Ball, RJ Mitte, R.R Martin, Tavi Gevinson, Piper Kerman, Mallory Ortberg, Joss Whedon,and Gideon Raff. BINGEFEST is the culmination of all of these wonderful moments; we cannot wait to explore binge culture at the Sydney Opera House in the all-encompassing, immersive environment that only a festival can create.”
The inaugural BINGEFEST 2016 will take place over two action-packed days and across the Opera House – from the sprawling forecourt to the Joan Sutherland Theatre, traditional home of ballerinas and opera singers.
Highlights include artists Shia LaBeouf, Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner in a new participatory performance artwork, which will take place over two successive nights, from midnight until 6am, and 10pm until 6am.
In February 2014, Shia LaBeouf appeared on the red carpet at the Berlin Film Festival wearing a paper bag over his head emblazoned with the words “I Am Not Famous Anymore.” This performative gesture signalled the beginning of an enduring collaboration with UK artist and author of The Metamodernist Manifesto, Luke Turner, and Finnish artist, Nastja Säde Rönkkö.
Since then, the trio have launched more than a dozen projects, using empathy, emotion and social interaction to foster new forms of communality across digital and physical networks. These artworks have involved the artists fielding emotional phone calls from strangers at Liverpool’s FACT gallery (#TOUCHMYSOUL), transmitting their heartbeat online during SXSW (#FOLLOWMYHEART), live-streaming LaBeouf watching his complete back catalogue in a 3-day communal screening at a New York theatre (#ALLMYMOVIES), and most recently, journeying around North America by tweeting their coordinates and inviting the public to take them anywhere (#TAKEMEANYWHERE).
Further details about their project will be announced closer to the date, and the event will be free to attend.
For more infomation: www.sydneyoperahouse.com/bingefest
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