2027 Program

Ride or Die is an ambitious, multimedia installation and performance centred around a vehicle, that examines the car as a site of literal and metaphorical transportation and transformation. 

Mortified asks what happens when shame enters, inhabits, kills and outlives the body. 

After 100 years of tradition in Australia, a once popular sport played exclusively by men and boys is about to become extinct. Over a series of meetings, a committee of dedicated players scramble to save their sport in the wake of institutional crisis and social change.

Every two years Australia votes in an iconic competition; The Guardian Australian Bird of the Year (reigning bird – the Tawny Frogmouth). Over 300,000 votes were cast in 2025.

State Theatre Company South Australia in association with Vitalstatistix presents Evil Hour by James Smith.

We are left with the aftermath. An unmade bed. Paperwork and personal admin. The guilt. The grief. The guesswork.

Target Practice is a performance lecture that celebrates the history of Pelting (the throwing of food/objects) as protest. Part history lecture/part instructional tutorial, this work will invite audience members to be active members of a pie-ocracy, engaging in the act of pelting throughout the duration of the performance.  

Rakini’s performance research protests global misogyny and challenges cultural stereotypes by embodying sacred female iconographies in live art and installation.  

A lament, an honouring, a call for action.