Ten thousand kazoos will vibrate, hum and buzz in a sonic siren call for unity in Melbourne’s Federation Square this winter, celebrating communal gathering in a city whose citizens suffered the atomisation of the world’s longest Covid-19 lockdown.
In only the second outing of the Rising festival – an amalgamation of the Melbourne International Arts festival and White Night, which was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic – the emphasis is on ritual and ceremonies and “a festival that you do”, say co-artistic directors Hannah Fox and Gideon Obarzanek.
The 2023 program, running over 12 nights in Naarm/Melbourne, features more than 400 artists and includes 35 commissions and 12 premieres. “The invitation to the public is not just to bear witness to great art,” says Fox, “but also to really get directly involved.”
Local artists responding to Rising’s callout for big projects include Melbourne-based composer Ciaran Frame, whose idea was to distribute 10,000 biodegradable kazoos to all comers in a “howling, drone moment”, says Fox, with no rehearsal or musical ability required, although there will be an educational workshop provided.
“Anyone can take part,” says Fox. “The kazoo is arguably the easiest instrument in the world to play.”
Across the road, Flinders Street station’s upper level will be taken over by the ambitious, immersive exhibition Shadow Spirit, curated by Yorta Yorta woman Kimberley Moulton. Open until the end of July, it will comprise 14 new, large-scale commissions involving 30 First Nations artists from across the country working on animations, sculpture and sound.
In the station’s former grand ballroom, hidden from public view until a major Patricia Piccinini exhibition in 2021 – followed, most recently, by a Rone installation – the Mulka Project from the Northern Territory will draw audiences into BIRRIMBIRR MURRUTJI: animated designs from two leading female Yolngu botanical painters sequenced with ceremonial choreography digitised through motion-capture technology, showcasing the songlines of three Yolngu clans.
Virtuoso recorder player Genevieve Lacey, meanwhile, is teaming up with composer Erkki Veltheim to create a choral musical ritual, Consort to the Moon, over four nights in a sheltered space in the Fitzroy Gardens, as a participation piece.
Based on the 3,400-year-old Hurrian Hymn no 6, the world’s oldest known notated piece of music, the performance will track the light from day to night; while countertenor Austin Hayes and soprano Deborah Kayser will be among the throng, as well as a community choir, there will be no centre stage, as vocals and percussion mimic wind, rain, and bird sounds. Everyone who attends is invited to join in with the community choir, or create their own percussive sounds.
Euphoria, German artist Julian Rosefeldt’s film about capitalism which features the voice of Melbourne-born actor Cate Blanchett, will transform Melbourne town hall in an arena “swallowed by screens”, while Rising’s hub Night Trade becomes the festival’s nucleus, with pop-up performances and feasts around St Paul’s Cathedral on Flinders Street. There will also be a new, super-sized ice-skating rink alongside the Birrarung Marr (Yarra).
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Inside St Paul’s Cathedral, US artist Wu Tsang’s film Anthem will be projected on to a 25-metre curtain hanging from the ceiling. The work, originally commissioned for the Guggenheim, features composer and transgender activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland singing. Growing up in Philadelphia, Glenn-Copeland, now 79, “identified as a lesbian at a time when transgender identity was neither well-known nor accepted”; Tsang says Glenn-Copeland’s voice “conjures a place I wish I lived … an anthem of a place that we could all exist in”.
South Korean dancer Geumhyung Jeong will give a “performance lecture” called Oil Pressure Vibrator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Jeong began her work as a puppeteer, and for this show speaks about eschewing sex with other humans for most of her 20s – instead, she “creates characters through puppetry that she has relationships with”, says Obarzanek.
Berlin-based Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger is bringing to the Arts Centre Playhouse Tanz, which premiered in Vienna in 2019 and was reviewed by the Guardian as “gross-out body-horror ballet”: the ballerina as a ghost spirit, based on a woman who suffered an untimely death. Dancers become “weightless”, as they are lifted and hover in the air.
At the Forum theatre, Mutti Mutti songman Uncle Kutcha Edwards will bring together an all-star cast for Waripa, a one-off celebration of Blak music, ceremony, tradition, and storytelling building on the stage version of his screen show Kutcha’s Koorioke. Edwards, who has released six solo albums to date, will be joined by Bart Willoughby and Joe Geia (No Fixed Address), Mo’Ju, Shellie Morris, Emily Wurramura, Eleanor Dixon and Alice Skye, with more guests to be announced.
Melbourne’s Rising festival runs from 7 to 18 June
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