Art and About Sydney

By Benjamen Judd

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Spring is here which means that, along with a whole lot of vocal mating from our native fauna, the annual Art and About Sydney festival will be taking over the city from September 19 until October 12.

Now in its twelfth year, the Art and About Sydney festival is a collaborative event that turns every laneway, park and building in Sydney into a potential canvas or gallery space for local and international artists. Works range across installation, photography and even live performance that will be taking place across various parts of the city.

Martin Place will be transformed into a giant backyard – a welcoming and relaxed ‘block party’, featuring entertainment, quality food and drinks and a great place to begin your festival adventure. BBQs, Hills Hoists, back fences, lawn cricket, garage bands, garden furniture, dogs, vinyl records, beer and snags….all slap bang in the middle of Sydney’s CBD.

One of the more interesting highlights, for us anyway, will be the Bodies In Space performances. Under the direction of Austrian artist Willi Dorner, 20 human bodies will cram themselves into doorways, alcoves and any gap they can find in the CBD. Dressed in brightly coloured clothes, the audience will spot them in all sorts of nooks and crannies as the festival finale. Kind of like a treasure hunt for people but colourful.

Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the 13th Art & About festival contains a unique three week program of works that will surprise and delight the city.

“This program of artworks and performances provides great insights and reflections on our rapidly changing society. I invite everyone to come and enjoy the wonderful things on offer”

Most events for Art and About are free but some are tickets and others have limited space. For more details on times, cost and capacity head over to their website.

Art and About Sydney will be taking place in various places across the city from September until October 12.