All through this exchange, artists local to the Northern Territory will offer experiments, works in progress, free to the public during the final week of Darwin Festival.

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If this flesh could…

24–27 Aug

If this flesh could… is a durational dance film by Kelly Beneforti shot in one sitting, exploring human flesh and the flesh of fruit in slowly shifting conversation. Touching on concepts of human and environmental fertility, nourishment, loss, and sustainability. This experiment draws from questions of the relationship between our inner and outer, private and public spaces.

Rapid Creek Radio

24-27 Aug

Carlo Ansaldo is an artist, project manager and community facilitator working across the visual arts and music industries in Gulumerrgin (Darwin).
Carlo is looking forward to collecting audio material on-site at Rapid Creek and during the labs to develop the beginnings of an audio soundtrack that has the potential to be broadcast locally. Their hope is that this broadcast will plant the seed for a local community radio project to grow. They are looking forward to collaborating with musicians and sound-based artists locally and nationally to test and develop this idea.

Dalirra (Light in Larrakia)

Fri 25 Aug

Mikaela Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist, working predominantly in painting, digital drawing and large-scale mural work.
Dalirra (Light in Larrakia) experiments with moving liquid light in the lab and projection design in collaboration with the walls of the Rapid Creek Markets. Interested in the fusion of Larrakia’s history and culture and the mixing of colours and light at the Rapid Creek market or originally Gurambai (Rapid Creek) to the Larrakia people.

Radical Hospitality: MarketMarket Feed

Sat 26 Aug

Heighten your senses as you move through a transitory program of discussion, new media and audio works while feasting on a three course meal prepared by locals whose businesses call Rapid Creek Shops home. This is a ticketed event, click here for more information and to purchase tickets.

Fruit

Sun 27 Aug

Matthew van Roden’s work explores spaces between apparent binaries as locations for queer creative praxis. Working primarily with wax, text, and digital video, van Roden is interested in ideas about the body, text, language and subjectivity.
They will experiment with Risographic animations, QR coded to fruit + vegetables at the Sunday Rapid Creek Markets.

MarketMarket DJ

Sun 27 Aug

Artist and music producer James Mangohig (aka Kuya James) grew up in the tropical and multicultural city of Darwin; the capital of the Northern Territory on Larrakia land. Kuya James is both an ARIA nominated producer and artist.
The Rapid Creek Markets are a regular part of his life. Through a friend he has been getting to know the store holders and asking him about their favourite music, what they loved before they migrated (or their parents migrated) and what they continue to enjoy now. These conversations will produce a DJ set including everything from Thai disco to Indonesian psych rock music and everything in between including a healthy dose of pop music from the last 5 decades.