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# PICA

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

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- [Home](https://pica.org.au/) - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) runs a year-round program of art, exhibitions, contemporary performance, dance, theatre, music and events. We’re home to one of the largest art exhibition and gallery spaces in Australia and are known for the leading role we play in supporting artists to
- [Support](https://pica.org.au/support/) - Donate Now Inspire creativity We need the support of individuals like you who share our values, our sense of adventure and our desire to create career-defining moments for artists and life-enhancing experiences for audiences. DonateNow Thank you! PICA is a not-for-profit organisation registered with The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). All donations $2 or
- [Our Donors](https://pica.org.au/support/our-donors/) - Our PICA community 'Giving is not just about making a donation. It’s about making a difference.' Kathy Calvin, former CEO of the United Nations Foundation The dedication and commitment of PICA’s donor community is truly inspirational. You are making a difference in so many ways through your support of PICA. We are always delighted to
- [Judy Wheeler Commission](https://pica.org.au/judy-wheeler-commission/) - Commencing in 2023, the Judy Wheeler Commission is a major series of annual commissions made possible by a historic philanthropic gift from the Simpson family. The Judy Wheeler Commission was established to honour the legacy of Judy Wheeler, an enduring lover and supporter of the arts. Established by Judy Wheeler’s husband Jamie and children Tom
- [What's On](https://pica.org.au/coming-up/) - Coming Soon
- [Online Resources](https://pica.org.au/online-resources/) - PICA's quality learning resources are freely available and unpack the art concepts, processes and materials in PICA’s featured exhibitions and performances. Bringing the voices and perspectives of artists to homes and classrooms, these resources include exhibition kits, such as the Hatched Master Class series, PICA Art Talks video interviews and the Body in Mind reflective
- [Zoology: Performance Season Program](https://pica.org.au/zoology-program/) - Too Close To The SunZoology25–27 February, 8pmHacket Hall, WA Museum Boola Bardip The idea for Zoology came from a series of slides that Talya found in a New York City antique shop on the Lower East Side. They were in Ektachrome colours, taken of wild animals at the Bronx Zoo in the 1980s. These slides
- [You're invited to the world premiere of Zoology](https://pica.org.au/youre-invited-to-the-world-premiere-of-zoology/) - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is delighted to invite you to the world premiere of Zoology by Too Close to the Sun at WA Museum’s Hackett Hall on Thursday 26 February at 8pm. When Talya Rubin was little, she would tell adults she wanted to be a “ballerina and a gorilla” when she grew up. Zoology is a performance lecture and dance
- [You're invited to the world premiere of Zoology](https://pica.org.au/friday-zoology-invitation/) - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is delighted to invite you to the world premiere of Zoology by Too Close to the Sun at WA Museum’s Hackett Hall on Friday 27 February at 8pm. When Talya Rubin was little, she would tell adults she wanted to be a “ballerina and a gorilla” when she grew up. Zoology is a performance lecture and dance
- [You're invited to the world premiere of Zoology](https://pica.org.au/wednesday-zoology-invitation/) - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is delighted to invite you to the world premiere of Zoology by Too Close to the Sun at WA Museum’s Hackett Hall on Wednesday 25 February at 8pm. When Talya Rubin was little, she would tell adults she wanted to be a “ballerina and a gorilla” when she grew up. Zoology is a performance lecture and dance
- [For Teachers and Students](https://pica.org.au/for-teachers-and-students/) - PICA’s inclusive gallery setting supports open discussion, reflection and experimentation. Our 2026 program of exhibitions and artists-in-residence showcases the very best of local, Australian and international contemporary art, creating pathways for learning across The Arts, HASS and Technologies. Book a school excursion and find information to plan your visit below, including curriculum insights about our 2026
- [About PICA](https://pica.org.au/about-pica/) - About Us Housed in an iconic heritage building in the heart of Perth, PICA is the place to experience the very best of local, Australian and international contemporary arts in Western Australia. Over its 30 plus-year history, PICA has operated as both a producing and presenting organisation, delivering an annual program of changing exhibitions, seasons
- [RSVP – Bunuru Season Private View](https://pica.org.au/s1-2026-pv-d/)
- [RSVP – Bunuru Season Private View](https://pica.org.au/s1-2026-pv-s/)
- [boorda yeyi](https://pica.org.au/boorda-yeyi/) - boorda yeyi, PICA’s immersive arts initiative supports artists in creating bold, technology-driven artworks. Learn more about upcoming artist opportunities.
- [Make a donation](https://pica.org.au/donate/) - PICA will only use your information to do what you have asked and to keep you informed of our work. We will not pass your details on to unrelated third parties and we will allow you to opt-out of our electronic publications. Read our Privacy Policy.
- [International Residencies](https://pica.org.au/apply-international-residencies/) - Each year PICA invites WA-based visual artists, curators and arts writers to apply for an international residency with one of our exchange partners: Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan (12 weeks) Rumata’ Artspace and Universitas Negeri, Makassar, Indonesia (4 weeks) Khoj, New Delhi, India (6 weeks) Residencies vary in duration and are focused around a particular area of practice,
- [Global Connections: Asia-Pacific](https://pica.org.au/global-connections-asia-pacific/) - Explore Australia’s place in a connected regional world and global relationships with Asia at PICA in 2026. Our exhibitions and International Studio Exchange Program—linking artists from WA, Makassar, Taiwan, Hong Kong and India—present rich opportunities for students to deepen intercultural understanding and consider global perspectives, supporting the cross-curriculum priority Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia. Two exhibitions
- [First Nations in Focus](https://pica.org.au/first-nations-in-focus/) - At PICA, students are supported to engage with First Nations perspectives, truth-telling and connection to Country through contemporary Aboriginal art and storytelling. They can develop intercultural understanding and an appreciation of the worldviews, knowledges and creative practices that shape Australia today, linking with the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. Through
- [Site and Spatial Design](https://pica.org.au/site-spatial-design/) - Explore how artists engage with spatial design and respond to the sites in which artworks are created and experienced. Through site-specific and site-responsive practices, students can examine relationships between artwork, audience and space. Consider how artists use architectural, environmental and social elements to reveal connections between people and their surroundings. Build awareness of both natural
- [Professional Pathways](https://pica.org.au/professional-pathways/) - Students can explore professional pathways and industry contexts in the arts and cultural sector. These exhibitions reveal the collaborative processes and teamwork involved in creating, curating and presenting artworks. They highlight career pathways connected to TAFE and tertiary studies, Aboriginal arts centres, regional arts organisations and active community participation. Aligning with Work Studies, secondary students can
- [Multi-Sensory Experiences](https://pica.org.au/multi-sensory-experiences/) - Innovative artworks that use new technologies are presented at PICA, creating unforgettable experiences that are multi-sensory and immersive. Students can investigate how artists combine sound, light, movement and texture to shape meaning and engage audiences. Boundary-crossing works encourage interdisciplinary thinking, supporting students to connect knowledge and skills across The Arts, Science, and Technologies. Classroom & Learning Opportunities: National Science
- [Sustainability: Water](https://pica.org.au/sustainability-water/) - Exhibitions with a shared focus on water, highlight connections between human and natural systems, aligning with the cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability. Students can explore how artists express social and cultural relationships to water and experiment with visual conventions to represent movement and flow. Learning Opportunities: World Water Day (22 March); World Meteorological Day (23 March); World Oceans
- [Local and Community Contexts](https://pica.org.au/local-community-contexts/) - Exhibitions engaging with local community contexts across Western Australia provide opportunities for students to explore place and civic participation. Students can investigate the role of art in society and how it reflects, shapes and sustains communities, contributing to healthy local environments. Aligning with Sustainability and Civics and Citizenship, the exhibitions foster a sense of belonging and responsibility, prompting
- [Australian Identity and Culture](https://pica.org.au/australian-identity-and-culture/) - Explore how contemporary Australian artists represent the diverse perspectives, experiences and communities that shape our nation and place in the world. Students can analyse how artists use materials, techniques and processes to communicate meaning, express identity and respond to social, cultural and historical contexts—including globalisation and migration, the ongoing impacts of colonisation, digital transformation and
- [Learn](https://pica.org.au/learning/) - Art unleashes potential – Learn, Imagine and Thrive PICA’s Learning programs are art-led and underpinned by principles of equity, access and inclusion. Our free Learning programs encompass primary, secondary and tertiary learning programs, school outreach, professional development for teachers and family art activities in our PICA Hub. PICA is a multi-arts organisation, working with artists
- [Studio Residencies and Creative Developments](https://pica.org.au/apply-now-studio-residencies-and-creative-developments/) - Each year PICA invites expressions of interest from WA and Perth-based artists for the following residency opportunities: International Exchange Program: participate in one of three international residency opportunities with our partners in Taiwan, Makassar and India. Hyper Local: 2 studio or creative developments residencies of between 4-5 months each are available at PICA for local artists seeking dedicated space and
- [Quick Response Residencies ](https://pica.org.au/quick-response-residencies/) - PICA’s Quick Response studio residencies are for artists needing space to test an idea or develop a project over a short time frame of 1–4 weeks. With an open call for applications twice a year, this program aims to contribute to the cultural life of Perth by providing artists with much-needed space, equipment and time to develop
- [Hyper Local Residencies](https://pica.org.au/hyper-local-residencies/) - Two residencies of 4-5 months each are available to mid-career Boorloo/Perth-based artists to dedicate time to developing and consolidating a long-term project. Our Hyper Local residencies are for artists with a committed studio practice and the motivation to work independently over the course of their residency. While at PICA, residency artists join a creative cohort
- [Kambarang-Birak Exhibitions Tour](https://pica.org.au/kambarang-birak-exhibitions-tour/) - On Thursday 4 December from 6:30pm, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is pleased to host a reception and tour of the final exhibition season of 2025 – Kambarang-Birak. During this season, PICA presents three urgent and deeply resonant exhibitions that speak to themes of home, place and belonging. Second Generation Collective’s Vádyé Eshgh وادی عشق (Valley of Love) is
- [Access and Facilities](https://pica.org.au/access-and-facilities/) - PICA strives to be a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone to enjoy contemporary art and performances. We have a range of facilities and services to meet peoples’ access needs.
- [Visit](https://pica.org.au/visit-pica/) - PICA is open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–5pm. PICA delivers an annual program of changing exhibitions, performance, new music and live art.
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2026 Application Form](https://pica.org.au/hatched-national-graduate-show-2026-application-form/)
- [Cross-Hatchings: Perth–New Delhi Residency](https://pica.org.au/perth-new-delhi-residency/) - PICA invites WA-based visual artists to apply for an international residency in 2026 in New Delhi, India with Khoj. This year, Khoj invites applications from artists whose practice engages with mental health and trauma, critically examining how pain—physical, psychological or historical—shapes both the self and society. How is suffering unequally distributed across race, class, gender
- [Our Partners](https://pica.org.au/support/partners/) - Transforming the world with imagination Housed in an iconic heritage building in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre, PICA is the place to experience the very best of local, Australian and international contemporary art in Western Australia. We partner with leaders in business, industry and government who are dedicated to inspiring change through their
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show](https://pica.org.au/hatched/) - Showcasing recent graduates from art schools across Australia, Hatched: National Graduate Show offers a national survey of emerging artistic talent, highlighting the diversity and creativity of some of the country’s most promising new artists. As the only survey exhibition of its kind in Australia, Hatched has become a much-anticipated program for artists and audiences alike,
- [Apply for an International Residency](https://pica.org.au/apply-for-an-international-residency-2026/)
- [Perth–Taipei Residency](https://pica.org.au/perth-taipei-residency/) - Continuing the City of Perth’s long sister-city relationship with Taipei, PICA and Taipei Artist Village partner on an exchange program that sees one artist from WA spend twelve weeks in Taipei at Treasure Hill Artist Village and one Taiwanese artist in residence at PICA. Applications for 2026 are now closed. Image: Tom Blake, ‘Leaves on the
- [Breeze: Perth–Makassar Residency](https://pica.org.au/breeze-perth-makassar-residency/) - This four-week exchange provides a platform for knowledge gathering, the exploration of cultural connections and opportunities to develop intercultural relations between Western Australia and Makassar. This exchange program will see an artist from Makassar, Indonesia spend four weeks at PICA, with a WA artist on exchange in Makassar, hosted by Rumata’ Artspace and Universitas Negeri
- [For Kids and Families](https://pica.org.au/for-kids-and-families/) - PICA Hub Inclusive Creative Space Our PICA Hub provides a place for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to connect and be creative. Here kids and adults can try their hand at art techniques ranging from sewing to stop-motion animation. Designed with artists, the free activities in this space give visitors an opportunity to learn
- [RSVP – PICA’s Kambarang-Birak Season Private View](https://pica.org.au/s4-2025-pv-s/)
- [RSVP – PICA’s Kambarang-Birak Season Private View](https://pica.org.au/s4-2025-pv-d/)
- [Opportunities](https://pica.org.au/opportunities/) - Job Opportunity: Curator The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is seeking a visionary Curator to lead its dynamic visual arts program. Situated in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre, PICA is a nationally recognised, non-profit, multi-arts organisation dedicated to presenting and developing innovative exhibitions, performances and interdisciplinary projects. As a key member of
- [Apply for a Local Residency](https://pica.org.au/apply-for-a-local-residency-2026/)
- [Thank you for donating to PICA!](https://pica.org.au/thank-you-for-donating-to-pica/) - Your donation is greatly valued and will support PICA's position as a national leader in the development and presentation of contemporary arts. We will get in touch with you shortly with an acknowledgment and receipt of your donation via email. For more information please contact philanthropy@pica.org.au. Kind regards,Anne TunnecliffeDevelopment ManagerPerth Institute of Contemporary Arts
- [Your Vote Has Been Received](https://pica.org.au/your-vote-has-been-received/) - Thank you for your vote!
- [The Future of Australian Art: Hatched: National Graduate Show](https://pica.org.au/the-future-of-australian-art-hatched-national-graduate-show/) - Discover the future of Australian art at PICA’s Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025. Presented throughout Term 3, this year's exhibition takes place in a bold, reimagined venue—a vast, light-filled space in Forrest Chase in Perth’s CBD, just minutes’ walk from PICA and the Perth Cultural Centre. Featuring artworks by 23 emerging artists from 20 art schools across Australia, Hatched 2025 offers students an opportunity to
- [Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards Recipients](https://pica.org.au/dr-harold-schenberg-arts-awards-recipients/) - During his lifetime, Dr Harold Schenberg was a great supporter of emerging artists. With his passing in 2000, Dr Schenberg’s legacy lives on through the Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards presented each year at PICA’s Hatched: National Graduate Show. These prestigious awards were established in 2009 and are a highlight of Hatched. Contributing over $600,000 in
- [Hatched 2025 People's Choice Award](https://pica.org.au/hatched-peoples-choice-2025-2/)
- [People's Choice Awards Terms and Conditions](https://pica.org.au/peoples-choice-awards-terms-and-conditions/) - To enter the Hatched 2025 People's Choice Award entrants must: Complete an entry form using the iPads provided at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) or their personal device hosted on PICA's website. Only one valid entry per entrant will be submitted into the draw. The People's Choice Award winner will be the artist
- [RSVP](https://pica.org.au/rsvp/)
- [RSVP](https://pica.org.au/30695-2/)
- [RSVP](https://pica.org.au/30700-2/)
- [RSVP](https://pica.org.au/30691-2/)
- [RSVP](https://pica.org.au/30697-2/)
- [Restore Program 2025](https://pica.org.au/restore-program-2025/) - Restore25–28 June, 20257pm, 90 minutes (20 minute interval) PICA and STRUT Dance present Restore, a dynamic double bill of new and recent dance works highlighting innovation and cross-regional collaboration. Restore facilitates deeper personal and creative connections across the region, fostering a spirit of exchange and collaboration. In 2025, Restore features a new choreographic commission from Western-Australian choreographer
- [Hatched Industry Preview Guest Registration](https://pica.org.au/hatched-industry-preview-guest-registration/)
- [Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge](https://pica.org.au/leonie-ngahuia-mansbridge/) - Leonie works quickly, often completing her landscape paintings in one to three weeks. The walls of her studio in Fremantle, where she has lived since moving from Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1970s, are full with artworks, the tables, too. With a practice extending more than two decades, Leonie has developed a confident and distinctive
- [Invitation to the opening night of Restore](https://pica.org.au/invitation-to-the-opening-night-of-restore-2/)
- [Invitation to the opening night of Restore](https://pica.org.au/invitation-to-the-opening-night-of-restore/)
- [Visual Story: How to access PICA and what to expect](https://pica.org.au/visual-story-to-access-pica/) - What is a visual story? In this handy resource you’ll find a step-by-step visual and written guide on how to visit PICA. A visual story helps prepare you for your visit by showing how to get here, what to expect when you arrive throughout different spaces in the building. How to access the PICA building
- [2026 Judy Wheeler Commission: Register for an Online Meeting](https://pica.org.au/2026-judy-wheeler-commission-register-for-an-online-meeting/) - Interested artists are encouraged to register for an online meeting in May to discuss their proposal. This will be an opportunity to meet with members of PICA’s team to discuss your application and any questions before submitting. These meetings will take place online on Wednesday 21 May 2 - 4pm (AWST) and Wednesday 28 May
- [Register | Creative Actions for Climate Hope by Annette Carmichael Projects](https://pica.org.au/register-the-stars-descend-by-annette-carmichael-projects/)
- [Register | Spoken word with Barbara Hostalek](https://pica.org.au/register-spoken-word-with-barbara-hostalek/)
- [Register | Amanda Bell: Judy Wheeler Commission](https://pica.org.au/register-amanda-bell-judy-wheeler-commission/)
- [Register | International & National Opportunities for Aboriginal Artists](https://pica.org.au/register-international-national-opportunities-for-aboriginal-artists/)
- [Register | Middar Yorga Dancers performance](https://pica.org.au/register-middar-yorga-dancers-performance/)
- [Register | Nuriah Jadai & Camera Story – creative photography workshop](https://pica.org.au/register-nuriah-jadai-camera-story-creative-photography-workshop/)
- [Register | Nuriah Jadai in conversation with Zali Morgan](https://pica.org.au/register-nuriah-jadai-in-conversation-with-zali-morgan/)
- [Register | Noongar Arts Program silk painting workshop](https://pica.org.au/register-noongar-arts-program-silk-painting-workshop/)
- [Register | Emily Rose Yarning Stick Workshop](https://pica.org.au/register-emily-rose-yarning-stick-workshop/)
- [Register | Julianne Wade in conversation with Zali Morgan](https://pica.org.au/register-julianne-wade-in-conversation-with-zali-morgan/)
- [Register | Julianne Wade Basket-Weaving Workshop](https://pica.org.au/register-julianne-wade-basket-weaving-workshop/)
- [Register | Creative Sovereignty & Legacies](https://pica.org.au/register-creative-sovereignty-legacies/)
- [Revealed Exhibition RSVP](https://pica.org.au/27793-2/)
- [](https://pica.org.au/rsvp-page/) - Thank you for registering to attend the Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibition on Friday 11 April 2025. An event reminder and entry details will be issued in the coming weeks. PICA is located at 51 James Street in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre. Please contact Anne Tunnecliffe at PICA - philanthropy@pica.org.au -
- [Revealed Private View RSVP](https://pica.org.au/27792-2/)
- [Revealed Private View RSVP](https://pica.org.au/27791-2/)
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- [International Exchanges Application Form](https://pica.org.au/international-residency-application-form/)
- [PICA's 2025 Bunuru Season Launch](https://pica.org.au/bunuru-season-private-view/)
- [PICA's 2025 Bunuru Season Launch](https://pica.org.au/bunuru-season-private-view-2/)
- [Regional Residency](https://pica.org.au/regional-residency/) - PICA’s Regional Residency provides space for regional artists to develop or research a project in Perth, creating new connections and relationships between artists and institutions in regional and metropolitan Western Australia. In partnership with North Metro TAFE, the selected artist is provided with a studio at PICA and accommodation in a self-contained flat on the
- [Residency Program](https://pica.org.au/home/resident-artists/) - About PICA's Studios PICA’s Residency Program is dedicated to sharing space and nurturing practice within the building. Comprising four studio streams, our year-round program provides space to artists in need of dedicated studio, research and creative development time. PICA’s Residency Program welcomes local, interstate and international arts practitioners of all disciplines year-round through an open
- [Perth–Marseille Residency](https://pica.org.au/perth-marseille-residency/) - For the first time in 2024 PICA is embarking on an international photo exchange residency with La Friche la Belle de Mai in the picturesque city of Marseille, France. This initiative will see a West Australian photo artist undertake an artistic journey with the support of independent photo book publisher Le Bec en l'air in a
- [For Communities](https://pica.org.au/for-communities-and-access-partners/) - Increasing access to and participation in arts and culture is one of our central aims. PICA believes that art is for everyone and plays a vital role in creating inclusive communities and positive social change. We work with community and access partners to meet the specific needs of diverse audiences and under-represented groups. Overcoming BarriersPICA’s welcoming gallery
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 – Application Form](https://pica.org.au/hatched-national-graduate-show-2025-application-from/) - The online application form must be completed in one session and cannot be saved. We recommend copying your responses into a separate document for your own records. Thank you for understanding that we are not able to provide any feedback on your application. Please note: Hatched is only open to students who have been nominated
- [History and ‘Home’ in a Settled Colony: Art as Commentary, Expression and Healing](https://pica.org.au/history-and-home-in-a-settled-colony-art-as-commentary-expression-and-healing/) - In Term 4, students can explore ideas about home and belonging from the perspectives of settlers and diaspora communities in Australia through two exhibitions at PICA. Migrants who fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution and their children growing up on Noongar land share narratives of displacement and reconnection. The Second Generation Collective, founded by
- [Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories, Cultures in Contemporary Art Practice](https://pica.org.au/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-histories-cultures-in-contemporary-art-practice/) - Investigate the importance of visual arts for First Nations Peoples in Australia to express diverse identities, heal from trauma, challenge viewpoints and overcome injustices. Four exhibitions provide opportunities to develop an understanding of and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and languages. Contemporary artworks celebrate and challenge ideas of Australian identity, addressing colonisation and Indigenous knowledge
- [Grounded by Roots, Touching the Sky: Identity, Artistic Influences and Inspiration](https://pica.org.au/grounded-by-roots-touching-the-sky-identity-artistic-influences-and-inspiration/) - In Term 1, expect unforgettable encounters with three exhibitions at PICA presented with Perth Festival 2025. Acclaimed international artist, Laure Provoust, and a diverse group of Australian artists explore the factors shaping identity. Connecting with their cultural roots and celebrating their predecessors, the artists delve into the memories, experiences and relationships that have influenced and
- [PICA announces prestigious Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards recipients for Hatched 2024](https://pica.org.au/pica-announces-prestigious-dr-harold-schenberg-arts-awards-recipients-for-hatched-2024/) - The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) has announced the award recipients of the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024 Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards – totalling $50,000 – awarded to exceptional Hatched artists to encourage their work and further invest in the development of their careers. In 2024, the prestigious prize was awarded to Lily Trnovsky of Adelaide Central School of Art for her ceramic
- [Homo Pentecostus Program](https://pica.org.au/homo-pentecostus-program-2/) - Joel Bray Dance Homo Pentecostus23–26 October 2024 In the late 19th century, John Stuart Mill coined the term Homo Economicus to describe the perfectly rational and self-interested individual who makes decisions solely to maximise their economic benefit. At the same time, the seeds of Pentecostalism were being laid by the industrious Wesleyans who believed that
- [Creative Learning](https://pica.org.au/creative-learning/) - Join PICA for inspiring encounters with creative practices across contemporary art, performance and dance! Excursions to PICA motivate students to learn by engaging their senses, appealing to their interests and challenging their perceptions in a positive and inclusive setting. In 2024 experience artist-led class workshops, guided exhibition tours, in-person and digital learning activities and resources
- [Impact](https://pica.org.au/support/impact/) - It takes a village PICA is a registered not-for-profit entity that has proudly served WA's arts-loving community since 1991. More than 100,000 people pass through our doors each year, including over 7,000 school students of all ages, to experience exhibitions, performances, studio programs, creative learning workshops and more. Visitors say they come to PICA to:
- [Bequests and Legacy](https://pica.org.au/support/bequest/) - Sharing a love of the arts Make a Bequest A bequest is a deeply meaningful and enduring way to share your love of the arts. By leaving a gift in your Will to PICA you can contribute to shaping WA arts and culture for generations to come. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your bequest with
- [Access Services and Resources](https://pica.org.au/access-services-and-resources/) - PICA provides access to services, resources and programs for our exhibitions and performances. If you have any questions about access, please contact us at (08) 9228 6300 or info@pica.org.au for more information. Accessible and Wheelchair Seating Some rooms and spaces in PICA will be bright, while others may have dim lighting or be quite dark. Spotlights are
- [Access Symbols](https://pica.org.au/access-symbols/) - These symbols communicate the accessibility of PICA's venue including our, foyer, studio and gallery spaces. They help inform audiences with specific access needs about what they expect when visiting PICA to ensure everyone can participate in the arts.Please look for these icons within the event pages throughout the site. The Companion CardAdmits carers to shows
- [Homo Pentecostus Program](https://pica.org.au/homo-pentecostus-program/)
- [RSVP for Listening Bodies: A Performance Making Workshop for Play, Presence and Possibility with Emma Maye Gibson ](https://pica.org.au/rsvp-for-listening-bodies-a-performance-making-workshop-for-play-presence-and-possibility-with-emma-maye-gibson/)
- [Regional Residency Application Form](https://pica.org.au/regional-residency-application-form/)
- [Quick Response and Hyper Local Residency Application](https://pica.org.au/quick-response-residency-application/)
- [2025 Judy Wheeler Commission - Call out for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists ](https://pica.org.au/2025-judy-wheeler-commission-call-out-for-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-artists/) - Expressions of Interest for the 2025 Judy Wheeler Commission are now open. What is the Judy Wheeler Commission? The Judy Wheeler Commission is a 10-year site-specific commissioning program established in memory of the late Judy Wheeler, generously supported by the Simpson Family. Awarded annually, the Judy Wheeler Commission supports new artwork commissions by Australia-based artists
- [PICA Donor Tour](https://pica.org.au/pica-donor-tour/) - The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Brisbane, 26 November to 1 December 2024 Count me in! I would like to confirm my interest in participating in the PICA Donor Tour to Brisbane and The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. If you have any questions, please contact Anne Tunnecliffe on 08 9228
- [PICA Hub](https://pica.org.au/pica-hub/) - The PICA Hub is an easily accessible, family-friendly space where PICA presents artist-designed activities for audiences to engage their mind and creative spirit. These activities connect with PICA’s seasonal program, drawing on key ideas, themes and narratives that appear in the work of those artists presenting in the PICA building that season. Visitors are encouraged
- [Knowledge sharing sessions with PICA staff](https://pica.org.au/knowledge-sharing-sessions-with-pica-staff/)
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- [Restore Program](https://pica.org.au/restore-program/) - PICA and STRUT DanceRestore29 May – 1 June 2024 PICA and STRUT Dance present Restore – a triple bill of new and recent dance works from artists across the Asia-Pacific. Restore 2024 is a pilot program that spotlights restoration, connection and exchange in the region with an eye to sustainable creative choreographic practice. In 2024
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- [Judy Wheeler Commission](https://pica.org.au/judy-wheeler-commission-2/) - Commencing in 2023, the Judy Wheeler Commission is a major series of annual commissions made possible by a historic philanthropic gift from the Simpson family. The Judy Wheeler Commission was established to honour the legacy of Judy Wheeler, an enduring lover and supporter of the arts. Established by Judy Wheeler’s husband Jamie and children Tom
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- [The Virtual Architecture of Empathy](https://pica.org.au/research-essay-the-virtual-architecture-of-empathy/) - Research Essay: Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowship Forrest Research Foundation, University of Western Australia By Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson The new age will be an age less masculine and more permeated with the feminine ideals. - 'Abdu'l-Bahá In The Virtual Architecture of Empathy, with the Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowship (2022) of the Forrest Research Foundation, I
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- [Catastrophes Learning](https://pica.org.au/catastrophes-learning/) - Conventions, Strategies and Approaches of Catastrophes Catastrophes is an autobiographical contemporary performance, in which Renée Newman and Ella Hetherington play themselves, rather than characters, in an abstract world with a strong emphasis on image and sound. They share brutally honest truths with each other and the audience in an authentic collection of vignettes. Contemporary performance
- [Apply – Asia Pacific Exchange Program](https://pica.org.au/asia-pacific-exchange-program-2022/) - The Asia Pacific Exchange Program is a new collaborative multi-year residency program between PICA, Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan), and Grey Projects (Singapore). PICA invites Western Australian artists, curators, and/or producers in the visual arts to apply for this eight-week artist residency to take place in either Taiwan or Singapore. Awarded to two artists each year,
- [Childcare Service: Catastrophes performance](https://pica.org.au/childcare-service-catastrophes-performance/) - On Saturday 19 August Catastrophes audiences can enjoy free, onsite childcare for children aged 3+ in a dedicated pop-up creche. The creche will be open from 1–3pm for patrons attending the 2pm matinee. To register your child please complete the form below. Registrations close when capacity is reached or by Friday 18 August, 3pm.
- [RSVP Djilba/Kambarang Exhibition Opening](https://pica.org.au/rsvp-djilba-kambarang-exhibition-opening/) - Thursday 3 August | 6:30pm | Free Entry Join us for our the opening of our new exhibitions by internationally acclaimed artists Wu Tsang (USA), Sancintya Mohini Simpson (Meanjin/QLD) and Sriwhana Spong (Aotearoa NZ/UK). Thursday
- [Hatched Learning](https://pica.org.au/hatched-learning/) - Our flagship exhibition Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023, is a must-see exhibition for aspiring young artists and social commentators. Hatched is a dynamic showcase of the next generation of artists who have recently graduated from art schools across Australia. The only national graduate exhibition of its kind, Hatched provides a vital platform for early-career artists and awards the largest
- [Marrugeku Learning](https://pica.org.au/marrugeku-burrbgaja-yalirra-2-learning/) - In 2023, PICA and Marrugeku presented the world premiere of Burrbgaja Yalirra 2 – a powerful triple bill of new dance works that traced histories of migration, adaptation, and survival in two fiercely physical dance solos and an awe-inspiring duo. Marrugeku is Australia’s leading Indigenous and intercultural dance theatre company. PICA spoke to Marrugeku's Co-Artistic
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- [Callout: XR Bootcamp & Hackathon](https://pica.org.au/news/callout-xr-bootcamp-hackathon/) - The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is pleased to offer the opportunity for creative practitioners working within visual arts, performance and/or interdisciplinary practices to attend a series of workshops to develop skills and produce an original work in an XR medium over August and September 2022. The program is open to applications from creative
- [Tyrown Waigana](https://pica.org.au/tyrown-waigana/) - Tyrown is an artist who is moving from strength to strength, constantly working on a hugely diverse and exciting range of projects. From graphic design to large-scale murals, delicate ink drawings to surreal sculptures, his work always elicits a belly laugh, smile, or snicker. He combines a kind of base level humour that can be
- [Pip Lewi](https://pica.org.au/pip-lewi/) - I first worked with Pip for their 2019 exhibition at Cool Change Contemporary and have been excitedly following their career trajectory ever since. I love the way their drawings capture slices of daily life which initially seem mundane but, upon closer look, are revealed as unique insights into the mysterious depths of the human psyche.
- [Tom Blake](https://pica.org.au/tom-blake/) - Tom is an exciting artist to watch, he travels widely for residencies and regularly exhibits at art spaces around Australia. His works carry a certain enigmatic quality. I love the way his shimmering, abstract forms and lines reappear and materialise across various surfaces. The seeming simplicity of his compositions bely an acute sensitivity to material,
- [Fernando do Campo](https://pica.org.au/fernando-do-campo/) - Unfolding across painting, installation, performance and video, Fernando do Campo’s compelling explorations of human-bird relationships requires us to think more deeply about our entangled relationships with nature and our responsibilities towards other species.– Sarah Wall, PICA Curator Artist Profile Fernando do Campo (b. Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1987) is an artist based in Sydney. Fernando
- [Imogen Kotsoglo](https://pica.org.au/imogen-kotsoglo/) - I find the stillness and focus of Imogen’s drawings profoundly satisfying. Working with a reduced, muted palette of ink or pencil on paper, Imogen’s delicately rendered studies of the environment draw you in – unlocking the dynamics of place that are often ignored or unseen, and prompting reflection on the strength as well as fragility
- [Luisa Hansal & Tamara Marrington](https://pica.org.au/luisa-hansal-tamara-marrington/) - Luisa and Tammy’s collaborative practice and friendship is everything I love about the arts. From forging a friendship in a share-house, painting alongside each other, and exhibiting together, their relationship forms part of their practice, and it’s one that is mutually supportive, generous and continues to push them into new terrain. I love the playful
- [Pascale Giorgi](https://pica.org.au/pascale-giorgi/) - Pascale’s works always trigger a smile. While humour has a central place in her practice, Pascale’s work is also deeply serious, addressing complex issues surrounding place and identity. Often depicting everyday life scenes, such as the office or the garden, Pascale transforms these humble scenes into something absurd and funny, in the process casting doubt
- [Joana Partyka](https://pica.org.au/joana-partyka/) - I love the raw emotion in Joana’s work. When Sarah and I met in her studio in 2021 we shared our feelings of powerlessness and anger at the government’s failure to act on climate change and gender discrimination. She channels these emotions into her work, creating ‘vessels of rage’ that capture her raw response to
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## Alumni

- [Kieron Broadhurst](https://pica.org.au/alumni/kieron-broadhurst/) - Kieron Broadhurst is an artist based in Perth, WA. Through a variety of media he investigates the speculative potential of fiction within contemporary art practice. What does Hatched mean to you? Hatched is an important pillar of the local and national arts community. For the emerging artists who participate in the exhibition it represents a
- [Ana Tiquia](https://pica.org.au/alumni/ana-tiquia/) - Ana Tiquia is an artist and futurist who lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne. Ana’s artworks invite participation with other ways of being, doing, or knowing. Developed through participatory, relational, and speculative processes, Ana’s work asks how we come to ‘know’ the future, what constitutes ‘data’ on our futures, and how different worldviews and
- [Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson](https://pica.org.au/alumni/elham-eshraghian-haakansson/) - The University of Western Australia $40,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2018
- [Tina Stefanou](https://pica.org.au/alumni/tina-stefanou/) - The University of Melbourne $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2020
- [David Attwood](https://pica.org.au/alumni/david-attwood/) - David Attwood is an artist living on Whadjuk Noongar country. He holds a PhD from Curtin University, and in 2019 completed the SOMA Summer program, Mexico City. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, and his work is held in Australian public collections, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Artbank. Alongside his
- [Consuelo Cavaniglia](https://pica.org.au/alumni/consuelo-cavaniglia/) - Consuelo Cavaniglia is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on how we see and understand space. Working across mediums, her work often employs technically simple visual effects to distort perception and unsettle the relationship between viewer and space. Interested in light and colour, Consuelo has undertaken residencies at NES, Iceland and FORM in Western Australia’s
- [Kate McGuiness](https://pica.org.au/alumni/kate-mcguiness/) - Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney $15,000 Schenberg Arts Award $5,000 People’s Choice Award 2024
- [Jody Rallah](https://pica.org.au/alumni/jody-rallah/) - Jody Rallah is a descendant of the Biri Gubba, Yuggera and Warangu peoples of the Brisbane and Bowen regions in Queensland. Rallah is an Indigenous Australian artist who works across object making, sculptural installation, painting, sound and performance. Rallah carefully considers the language and aliveness of materiality to engage with conversations spanning between generations. Her
- [Anita Cummins](https://pica.org.au/alumni/anita-cummins/) - Monash University $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2019
- [Kate Bohunnis](https://pica.org.au/alumni/kate-bohunnis/) - Based in Tarntanya (Adelaide), Kate Bohunnis works in metal, mould-making, textiles, print and sound. Focusing on identity, gender and queer perspectives, Bohunnis’ installations connect material experimentation and its ability to communicate psychological states and behaviours. This material performativity is either enacted on its own, or posturing and interacting with another to create a new structural
- [Ellen Norrish](https://pica.org.au/alumni/ellen-norrish/) - Ellen Norrish (b.1993) is a representational painter working in Perth, WA. Her art practice is based on the careful reproduction of everyday objects and imagery in thick alla prima oil paint. She is particularly interested in personal collections or incidental accumulations of imagery, having completed series of paintings based on letters, photographs, artworks and amateur
- [Selena de Carvalho](https://pica.org.au/alumni/selena-de-carvalho/) - University of Tasmania $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2016 
- [Lill Colgan](https://pica.org.au/alumni/980-2/) - Lill Colgan is an artist from Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia) currently settled on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Their practice explores the ways normative social power shapes embodiment and considers how affects might be unpacked through transformative material play. Colgan graduated with a BFA (First Class Honours) from Curtin University (WA) in 2014. Since then, they’ve
- [Zoe Kirkwood](https://pica.org.au/alumni/zoe-kirkwood/) - University of South Australia $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2014
- [Carla Adams](https://pica.org.au/alumni/carla-adams/) - Carla Adams was born in Perth (1984) and graduated with First Class Honours from Curtin University in 2014. Her work incorporates sculpture, textiles, craft practices, painting, drawing, research and book-making to navigate the complexities of relationships from an embodied, female perspective. Adams’ work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Turner Galleries,
- [Ramesh Nithiyendran](https://pica.org.au/alumni/ramesh-nithiyendran/) - Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran (b. 1988 Colombo Sri-Lanka, Australia from 1989) Sri-Lankan born artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is a contemporary artist who explores the politics of sex, the monument, gender and religion. At the age of 32, he has delivered major artworks of scale in museums, biennales and multi-art centres. This has included major presentations at
- [Ryan Presley](https://pica.org.au/alumni/ryan-presley/) - Dr. Ryan Presley was born in 1987 in Alice Springs, and currently lives and works in Brisbane. His father’s family is Marri Ngarr and originate from the Moyle River region in the Northern Territory. His mother’s family were Scandinavian immigrants to Australia. Presley’s art practice is a reflection of his locale, which he audits and
- [Elizabeth Pedler](https://pica.org.au/alumni/940-2/) - Elizabeth Pedler is an independent artist and Curtin University sessional academic, focused on a dialogic approach to collaboration. Interested in the range of participation possible in art, Elizabeth's practice spans from playful and interactive installations to collaborative relational aesthetics. Identity, food, and community involvement are areas of particular focus, engaging with audiences through the sharing of
- [Tanya Lee](https://pica.org.au/alumni/tanya-lee/) - Tanya Lee is a Western Australian artist currently living in the Kimberley. Her cross-disciplinary practice happens across sculpture, live performance video and drawing. Her playful work constructs incongruous, farcical and even futile narratives with costumes, shelters and tasks that subvert the politics of everyday personal and social landscapes. The outcomes of Lee’s practice are diverse
- [Nathan Beard](https://pica.org.au/alumni/936-2/) - Nathan Beard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Perth/Boorloo who draws from his Australian-Thai heritage to unpack the slippery influences of culture, memory and authenticity. Beard adapts intimate exchanges with family and archives alongside broader cultural signifiers of 'Thai-ness' to generate visually extravagant and idiosyncratic slippages of identity across mediums including sculpture and photography. By asking
- [Gian Manik](https://pica.org.au/alumni/gian-manik/) - Gian Manik’s practice is defined by an ongoing investigation into the boundaries of representation. Previously, the artist staged reflective and malleable materials – such as tin foil – to mirror environments, which he then documents and faithfully reproduces as non-representational paintings. More recently, Manik has broadened this approach by entwining abstraction with figuration. Continuing to
- [Mark Parfitt](https://pica.org.au/alumni/mark-parfitt/) - Mark Parfitt's practice connects to themes of site-specificity, installation, and socially engaged practice. Drawing on contemporary sculpture theory informed by the practical conditions of artistic production, Mark uses the house as a site to produce and exhibit new sculptural artworks. To date Mark has produced a range of house-based events that utilises domestic architecture and
- [Khaled Sabsabi](https://pica.org.au/alumni/khaled-sabsabi/) - I genuinely believe in the power of art as an effective and influential tool to communicate with people. As a full-time contemporary visual artist who works in video, mixed media and site-specific installation work, my artistic process involves working across art mediums, geographical borders and with communities to create immersive and engaging art experiences. For
- [Kiron Robinson](https://pica.org.au/alumni/kiron-robinson/) - Kiron Robinson lives and works out of Naarm/Melbourne. His work circulates around ideas that he recognises existing within the photographic – doubt and belief – and the relationship between these two states for their own existence. He uses a number of photographic strategies across different mediums to interrogate these ideas. He loves photographs but does
- [Anna Nazzari](https://pica.org.au/alumni/anna-nazzari/) - Anna Nazzari is a Perth-based artist and writer. Her art practice often investigates the human othering of animals through sci-fi, horror and supernatural themes. Her artwork is multi-faceted and can include sculpture, video, drawing and photography. In 2021, Nazzari curated and exhibited work in Totemism: Climate Altered Species at Spectrum Project Space. She was also included in the Edith Cowan University and National
- [Susanna Castleden](https://pica.org.au/alumni/susanna-castleden/) - Susanna is an artist and associate professor at Curtin University, where she supervises creative practice PhD, Masters and Honours projects. Susanna completed a PhD at RMIT in 2014 and continues to explore ideas of mobility, mapping, distance and proximity in her creative practice. Susanna’s works have been selected in numerous national and international prizes and
- [Bruce Slatter](https://pica.org.au/alumni/bruce-slatter/) - Bruce is the Discipline Lead of Art in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University. He has a Bachelor of Arts with first class Honours and Masters from Curtin University and a PhD in Art from RMIT. Bruce has a sculptural practice but in recent years has developed a collaborative
- [Nina Sellars](https://pica.org.au/alumni/nina-sellars/) -  Nina Sellars is a visual artist, scholar, and curator of exhibitions and programs at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne. Previously, she was artist in residence at SymbioticA, the Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, 2016-2018, University of Western Australia, and research fellow at the Alternate Anatomies Lab (robotics and
- [Helen Smith](https://pica.org.au/alumni/helen-smith/) - Helen Smith’s practice is influenced by a formal, minimalist view-point with simplicity of form and geometric abstraction generally contributing to the outcome. Oil on canvas paintings, quite often derived from an interest in social and cultural systems and large-scale wall works, form the basis for her enquiry. What does Hatched mean to you?’ It
- [Nicole Slatter](https://pica.org.au/alumni/david-noonan/) - Nicole Slatter completed a BA (Honours) and Masters at Curtin University and a PhD at RMIT. She has exhibited widely in WA and has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions nationally. Her work is held by Artbank, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital,
- [Shaun Gladwell](https://pica.org.au/alumni/shaun-gladwell/) - Born Sydney, Australia 1972 Lives and works in Melbourne Shaun Gladwell’s practice engages personal experience and a wider speculation of art history to examine the dynamics of contemporary culture. Gladwell transposes forms of urban expression such as skateboarding, graffiti, BMX bicycle riding, break-dancing and extreme sports into the multiple mediums of his practice. These performances,
- [Raquel Ormella](https://pica.org.au/alumni/raquel-ormella/) - Raquel Ormella born 1969 Cronulla/Kurranulla, lives and works in Canberra/Kamberi Australia Raquel Ormella’s practice encompasses various media and can be divided into two broad thematic streams: political language and its effects on national identity, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment. In 2020 her work was included in the first iteration of
- [Helen Britton](https://pica.org.au/alumni/helen-britton/) - Helen Britton is a multidisciplinary Australian artist based in Munich, Germany. Her practice creates jewellery and objects, drawings, stencils and installations, and is informed by popular culture and folk art, disappearing traditions on the backdrop of a strong underlying influence of her natural Australian environment. Helen completed a Master of Fine Arts by research at Curtin
- [Julie Gough](https://pica.org.au/alumni/julie-gough/) - Julie Gough is an artist, writer and curator. Living in Hobart, Julie is a curator, First People’s Art and Culture, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Her Briggs-Johnson extended family have lived in the Latrobe region of Tasmania since the 1840s, with Tebrikunna in north east Lutruwita (Tasmania) their traditional Trawlwoolway Country. Julie's research
- [Lucille Martin](https://pica.org.au/alumni/lucille-martin/) - Lucille Martin is a contemporary Australian artist with an established professional career in Photo-media and Multi-disciplinary work that includes education, counselling and policy advocacy. In a career spanning 30 years her practice has steadfastly and successfully connected conceptual substance, production and presentation as strongly aligned trinity in the exploration of themes within solo, group & curatorial
- [Perdita Phillips (1992)](https://pica.org.au/alumni/perdita-phillips/) - Dr Perdita Phillips is an Australian ecological artist who has long concerned herself with interactions between human and nonhuman worlds. A recipient of State Government arts grants, two Australia Council Inter-Arts grants and Artsource residencies in Basel and Sydney, she has inhabited/exhibited widely including Listening in the Anthropocene online exhibition, (2020, Charles Stuart University), Dealing
- [Kai Wasikowski](https://pica.org.au/alumni/kai-wasikowski/) - Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney $40,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2017
- [Erin Hallyburton](https://pica.org.au/alumni/erin-hallyburton/) - Monash University $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2022
- [Jingxuan Chen](https://pica.org.au/alumni/jingxuan-chen/) - The University of Melbourne $10,000 Schenberg Art High Commendation 2023
- [Andrew Varano](https://pica.org.au/alumni/andrew-varano/) - Curtin University $20,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2010
- [Elliot Hughes](https://pica.org.au/alumni/elliot-hughes/) - University of New South Wales $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2011
- [Laxlan Petras](https://pica.org.au/alumni/laxlan-petras/) - Monash University $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2012
- [Shan Turner-Carroll](https://pica.org.au/alumni/shan-turner-carroll/) - University of Newcastle $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2013
- [Andrew Styan](https://pica.org.au/alumni/andrew-styan/) - University of Newcastle $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2015
- [Yul Scarf](https://pica.org.au/alumni/yul-scarf/) - National Art School $50,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2021
- [Ilona McGuire](https://pica.org.au/alumni/ilona-mcguire/) - Curtin University $5,000 Schenberg Art Commendation 2022
- [Remy Faint](https://pica.org.au/alumni/remy-faint/) - University of New South Wales $10,000 Schenberg Art High Commendation 2022
- [Agatha Okon](https://pica.org.au/alumni/agatha-okon/) - The University of Western Australia $5,000 Schenberg Art Commendation 2023
- [Paean Sarkar](https://pica.org.au/alumni/paean-sarkar/) - Queensland University of Technology $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship 2023
- [Lily Trnovsky](https://pica.org.au/alumni/lily-trnovsky/) - Adelaide Central School of Art $15,000 Schenberg Arts Award 2024
- [Vedika Rampal](https://pica.org.au/alumni/vedika-rampal/) - University of New South Wales $15,000 Schenberg Arts Award 2024

## What’s On

- [On Labour: Four Live Works  ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/on-labour-four-live-works/) - On Labour: Four Live Works is a program of live performance informed by the practices and lived experiences of four contemporary artists, including Grace Connors, Barbara Hostalek, Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa and Sarah Rodigari—each working at the intersection of visual art, performance and the written word. On Labour considers the notion of ‘labour’ as both a creative
- [Weekends at PICA](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/s2-2026-weekends-at-pica/) - Join us at PICA to celebrate Aboriginal art and culture with Weekends at PICA! Experience the diversity and vibrancy of the All That Country Holds and Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibitionswith a weekend of artist yarns, gallery floor talks, artist-led workshops and programming from Rubibi (Broome)-based Indigenous publishers, Magabala Books, in residence at the PICA Shop 17–19 April. In 2026, for the second time, PICA will host
- [Revealed Artists Floor Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/revealed-artists-floor-talks/) - On Saturday 18 April, we celebrate the opening of our second season for 2026 with a Weekends at PICA program focused on platforming and celebrating First Nations art and culture through a series of floortalks, artist-led workshops and more! Deepen your connection to the Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibition and join guest curator Zali Morgan in conversation with invited Revealed artists as they discuss their creative practices and stories behind their work. Held in PICA’s
- [All That Country Holds: Brunch Yarns](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/all-that-country-holds-breakfast-yarns/) - On Saturday 18 April, we celebrate the opening of our second season for 2026 with a Weekends at PICA program focused on platforming and celebrating First Nations art and culture through a series of floortalks, artist-led workshops and more! Start the day with a brunch yarn in the gallery with the exhibiting artists in All That Country Holds. In this exhibition, ten senior Kimberley artists explore perspectives on place, identity and stories held within the Kimberley landscape through contemporary painting,
- [Reconciliation Week: Revealed In Conversation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reconciliation-week-revealed-in-conversation/) - Join us this Reconciliation Week at PICA as we celebrate the Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibition with a special conversation featuring the local exhibiting artists. Revealed is an annual showcase of new and emerging Aboriginal artists from across Western Australia. For Reconciliation Week, Revealed: In Conversation—facilitated by exhibition curator Zali Morgan, a Whadjuk, Ballardong and Wilman Noongar woman—offers an opportunity to hear directly from the artists and gain
- [PICA Shop Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-shop-residency/) - Magabala Books—Australia’s leading First Nations publishing house—will be flying down to join us for our opening weekend!Aboriginal owned and led, Magabala Books publishes up to 18 new titles each year across children’s books, memoir, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, social history and poetry. Their award-winning titles, including Daniel Browning’s recently awarded Close to the Subject: Selected
- [1989-2026 Archive Sale](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/1989-2026-archive-sale/) - PICA is doing a spring clean of our art library—involving a clear-out of decades of art publications and magazines from across Australia and the globe. Hundreds of books will be available for a donation of $1-3 each, ranging from self-published zines, catalogues, exhibition catalogues, art magazines and more. These publications span both art historical periods and contemporary art practice in Perth and abroad, encompassing a wide range of mediums and themes. Join us during the Boorloo Heritage
- [Restore ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/strut-dance-restore-2/) - STRUT Dance partners with PICA to present Restore, a dynamic double bill of new and recent dance works highlighting innovation and cross-regional collaboration. In 2026, Restore will debut a new choreographic commission from Boorloo (Perth)–based dance artist Ainslie Allen and the West Australian premiere of a new work from Melbourne-based choreographer Brooke Stamp. MICKEY by Brooke Stamp investigates the psychic, emotional and physical labour of the
- [PICA After Hours: Opening Night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/s2-pica-after-hours-opening-night/) - PICA’s second season platforms the work of new and emerging Aboriginal artists alongside their senior peers from the Kimberley. PICA After Hours invites you to celebrate and be the first to witness this season of exhibitions, including the 2026 Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibition presented at PICA under the custodianship of AACHWA and All That Country Holds, an exhibition premiering
- [Under Waters](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/boorda-yeyi-april-phillips-under-waters/) - Wiradjuri–Scottish artist April Phillips creates deeply sensory, immersive installations that merge First Nations knowledge, science and poetic computation. Presented as the first boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission, Under Waters carries audiences into a speculative past, millions of years before our own, when saltwater stretched across most of the Earth’s surface. The installation celebrates water as
- [Painting Itself / 绘画本身](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/perth-festival-painting-itself/) - Painting Itself/绘画本身 is an exhibition of five painters from Hong Kong, Malaysia, London, Shanghai and Singapore. The exhibition explores a new horizontal culture in painting, where fundamental ideas about its history and vitality—long the influence of European and American values—are being reshaped in East and Southeast Asia. A common understanding is that painters look for the
- [Awakening Histories ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/perth-festival-awakening-histories/) - Awakening Histories explores the deep and enduring connection between First Nations Peoples across the north of this continent (now known as Australia) and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Re-positioning Australia’s pre-colonial international relations from a global south perspective, this powerful exhibition reflects on the legacies of these early intercultural connections that were forged
- [Soft Grates](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/judy-wheeeler-commission-jen-berean-james-carey-soft-grates/) - Established in 2022, the Judy Wheeler Commission is a ten-year program made possible through a philanthropic gift to PICA by the Simpson Family. It funds an annual site-specific work by an Australian visual artist that responds physically or conceptually to the architecture and history of the PICA building, embodying PICA’s spirit of risk and experimentation,
- [Trails and Tales of Trade: Across Land and Sea ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/trails-and-tales-of-trade-across-land-and-sea/) - Trails and Tales of Trade: Across Land and Sea transforms the PICA Hub into a hands-on landscape of making, play and shared discovery. Designed for all ages, this immersive experience invites visitors to touch, sort, gather and play their way through different environments—from saltwater shores to tall timber forests, desert plains and stone country. Move through distinct zones where materials,
- [Play-Ground ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/play-ground/) - Regional Quick Response artist-in-residence, Moses Mohammed Kington-Walberg, invites you to drop into Studio 2 at PICA for an afternoon of mutually inspired sound and art. During his residency, Moses is working with musical instruments, found objects, field recordings, photography and Eucalyptus branches from his family farm to create an immersive and interactive sound-garden. "I've tried to
- [Zoology](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/too-close-to-the-sun-zoology/) - When Talya Rubin was little, she would tell adults she wanted to be 'a ballerina and a gorilla' when she grew up. Zoology is a performance lecture and dance work for one woman and two children that attempts to live up to that childhood dream. Zoology was inspired by slides found in a New York
- [All That Country Holds ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/all-that-country-holds/) - All That Country Holds presents significant contemporary works by ten Kimberley-based Aboriginal artists. Through contemporary expression—including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics and mixed media—the artists share perspectives on place, identity and the stories held within the Kimberley landscape. Presented by Kimberley Aboriginal Art and Culture (KAAC)—representing the six leading art centres of the Kimberley (Warmun Art Centre,
- [Under Waters: Opening Night & Artist Talk](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/under-waters-opening-night-artist-talk/) - Join Friends with Computers for the opening of Under Waters, the inaugural boorda yeyi Immersive Arts Commission at PICA, followed by an artist talk by Wiradjuri–Scottish artist, April Phillips, Technical Director Jordan East and Virtual Art Director Pat Younis. Under Waters is a deeply sensory, interactive installation that draws audiences into a speculative deep past where First
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emily-rose-quick-response-residency/) - In her Quick Response residency at PICA, Emily Rose will build on her 2025 residency at Goolugatup Heathcote, which explored motherhood, birthing and the cultural practices surrounding these experiences. She will draw on her own experiences as a mother as well as research into the lives of her ancestors, particularly her great-great-grandmother who was a stolen girl.
- [Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-tammy-yu-ting-hsieh/) - PICA is delighted to welcome Taiwan-based curator Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh as part of the Taipei–Perth International Exchange residency. Join Tammy in conversation with Perth-based curator Sharmila Wood as they explore curatorial practice across geographies, cultures and creative infrastructures. Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh’s current research investigates the shared yet uneven legacies of colonisation and extractive economies in Taiwan and Western
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jacob-kotzee-quick-response-residency/) - During his PICA residency, Jacob Kotzee will develop a new body of paintings that examine the relationship between aesthetics, nationalism and the politics of myth. His research will centre on the cinematic work of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Her technical innovations in cinematography were mobilised by the National Socialist regime, embedding her visual language within fascist propaganda.
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2026](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-national-graduate-show-2026/) - Marking its 35th year, PICA is proud to present the 2026 Hatched: National Graduate Show. Showcasing recent graduates from art schools across Australia, Hatched offers a national survey of emerging artistic talent, highlighting the diversity and creativity of the next generation of the country’s most promising artists, selected for their creative excellence and unique modes
- [Exhibition Tour: Painting Itself / 绘画本身 ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/curator-tour-painting-itself-绘画本身/) - Join PICA for a tour of Painting Itself / 绘画本身, an exhibition of five painters from Hong Kong, Malaysia, London, Shanghai and Singapore led by Guest Curator Jonathan Nichols. The exhibition explores a new horizontal culture in painting, where fundamental ideas about its history and vitality—the long influence of European and American values—are being reshaped in East and Southeast Asia. Gain a deeper
- [Flow States: Conversations on Water ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/flow-states-conversations-on-water/) - PICA invites you to celebrate the opening weekend of our new Bunuru season with artist talks, curator tours and a panel conversation. Threaded throughout the opening season are ideas of water. Water connects us all, shaping landscapes, cultures and futures. Flow States: Conversations on Water brings together artists and researchers to explore the elemental, political and poetic dimensions of water in contemporary life. Expanding
- [Sea Stories and Saltwater Legends: Storytelling with Ron Bradfield Jnr ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sea-stories-and-saltwater-legends-storytelling-with-ron-bradfield-jnr/) - Join storyteller, artist and Bard Jawi man Ron Bradfield Jnr for an immersive storytelling session. In response to PICA’s current exhibition Awakening Histories, which explores the deep and enduring connections between Australian Aboriginal peoples and Makassan seafarers, Ron invites audiences to journey with him through tales of sea, spirit and family. Drawing on his experiences as a former member of the Australian Defence Force and his childhood
- [Abdul-Rahman Abdullah in conversation with Ron Bradfield Jnr](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/abdul-rahman-abdullah-in-conversation-with-ron-bradfield-jnr/) - Join artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah for a conversation with storyteller, artist and Bard Jawi man Ron Bradfield Jnr. Hear more about Abdullah’s new works presented as part of PICA’s current exhibition Awakening Histories, which celebrates the long relationship of cultural exchange between Makassar, Indonesia and Australia since before colonisation. Abdullah’s new collection of drawings weave together imagery and motifs from his family lineage, tracing back to the old Luwu kingdom in
- [PICA After Hours: Opening Night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-hours-bunuru-opening-night/) - Celebrate the opening of the first season of 2026! Join us on Thursday 5 February, 6–8pm for PICA After Hours, our re-imagined opening night program, featuring local music outfit jade//vision performing from the first-floor balcony. After Hours invites you to party with us and be the first to view the Bunuru season at PICA. jade//vision is a collective of Boorloo and Walyalup-based musicians, artists and DJs, developing community through collaborative live events, records and music curation
- [Cross-Hatchings: Perth-New Delhi Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/luisa-hansal-cross-hatchings-perth-new-delhi-residency/) - During her residency at Khoj, Luisa Hansal will explore the layered histories, rituals, mythologies and textures of New Delhi and how pain and renewal are embedded in its collective and architectural memory. Engaging with Khoj's focus on mental health, trauma and healing, she will develop a new body of oil paintings and works on paper mapping psychic landscapes of emotional density, sensory affect and repair. Through
- [BREEZE: Perth-Makassar International Exchange Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/naoko-uemoto-breeze-perth-makassar-international-exchange-residency/) - During her residency in Makassar, Indonesia, Naoko Uemoto will develop compositional methods that support her improvisatory, electroacoustic performance practice. The scores will be developed through conversations and shared practice with musicians and knowledge holders, deep listening to place and field-recordings. Through these activities, Uemoto will how explore how local beliefs about spiritual presence and materiality
- [Perth-Taipei International Exchange Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tom-campbell-perth-taipei-international-exchange-residency/) - During his residency with Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, Tom Campbell will develop his project to learn the Sumazau. The Sumazau is a traditional Kadazan (First Nations Malaysian) dance, performed in a variety of ceremonial and celebratory contexts. Tom, who has Kadazan heritage through his matrilineal line, will spend his time in Taiwan researching and
- [Taipei-Perth International Exchange Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tammy-yu-ting-hseih-taipei-perth-international-exchange-residency/) - During her residency at PICA, Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh will deepen her curatorial research into the complex intersections of geopolitics, national memory, Indigenous knowledge systems and ecological crisis. Her focus will be on how colonial expansion and extractive economies have shaped both Western Australia and Taiwan. Through studio visits, field research and on-site engagement, Hsieh will
- [Hyper Local Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sarah-nelson-hyper-local-artist-in-residence/) - This residency will support the continued development of Into the Fog, an innovative interdisciplinary performance work integrating object manipulation, moving image and illusion. This stage of development will support sustainable practice with continued exploration of nonconventional lighting techniques that are simple and effective in communicating the inner experience of chronic illness, and further development of the physical
- [Hyper Local Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rachel-arianne-ogle-hyper-local-residency/) - During her Hyper Local residency at PICA, Rachel Arianne Ogle will deepen creative collaborations across three projects. These include the continued development of a new work in collaboration with Butchulla Songman, Fred Leone, weaving together storytelling, movement, music and visuals. She will also begin research and technical development towards ghostshow, a new work examining the
- [Company-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pvi-collective/) - In 2024 we inaugurate our new Company-in-Residence program by welcoming local artists, pvi collective, into Studio 1. This three-year residency makes space at PICA for an arts company or organisation, inviting solidarity and sector collaboration by sharing resources, ideas and spaces. Founded in 1998, pvi collective is a tactical media art group who create agitational
- [A Deceptively Simple Need](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alana-hunt-a-deceptively-simple-need/) - Alana Hunt’s solo exhibition and major commission, A Deceptively Simple Need, extends her ongoing investigation into the everyday violence of non-Indigenous life on unceded land. The exhibition follows Hunt’s earlier film, Surveilling a Crime Scene (2023), which presents a close study of non-Indigenous life on Miriwoong Country, in and around the town of Kununurra in far northern Western Australia—where Alana lived for
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-hatched-national-graduate-show-2025/) - Each year, PICA’s Hatched: National Graduate Show presents artworks by outstanding graduates from across the country. Showcasing the next generation of Australia’s contemporary creative voices, this year Hatched is presented for the first time in an offsite venue in Perth’s CBD from 2 August to 5 October. Hatched 2025 features the works of 23 artists from 20 tertiary art schools who were nominated
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jess-van-heerden-quick-response-residency/) - IN CASE OF EMERGENCY DO NOT BREAK GLASS imagines a world where the Australian Government (at last) decides to act upon the climate crisis. Each adult of working age is designated a fish to look after until the ocean-cum-boiler situation is under control. During their residency Jess van Heerden will develop a series of paintings, prose
- [Quick Response Artists-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rose-kingdom-barron-quick-response-artists-in-residence/) - The Wetness is a new-wave spiritual practice meets submersive performance piece by Boorloo-based artist Rose KB. An ongoing and often site-specific work, the slippery ceremony aims to connect us to the wet stuff inside and outside of us. Drawing from hydrofeminism, clowning and collective mythmaking, the work invites participants to tap into their own internal tides -
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emma-lee-maher-quick-response-residency/) - Emma-Lee Maher will use her Quick Response residency at PICA to develop a collection of short memoir pieces. These stories are told through the lens of a possibly unreliable narrator; where memory is slippery, emotion distorts fact and truth is felt more than proven. These written pieces will form the basis of a series of
- [Cement Frogs the Ghost of a Swamp ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tyrown-waigana-cement-frogs-the-ghost-of-a-swamp/) - Cement Frogs the Ghost of a Swamp by Wandandi Noongar and Ait Koedhal artist and designer Tyrown Waigana is the second in PICA’s annual series of mural paintings commissioned for the walls outside PICA’s public entrance. Waigana was inspired by the network of wetlands that were once a prominent feature of the landscape that is
- [F = m•a (five ways to make a rainbow)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/five-ways-to-make-a-rainbow/) - Bell’s new commission Five ways to make a rainbow is the third Judy Wheeler Commission, an annual series of site-specific works that respond to the history and site of PICA.
- [Vádyé Eshgh وادی عشق  (Valley of Love)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/vadye-eshgh-valley-of-love/) - Vádyé Eshgh وادی عشق (Valley of Love) is a major new commission by Second Generation Collective. Founded in 2020 by Iranian-Australian video artist Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and Gujurati-Irish-Australian performer, film-maker and musician Asha Kiani, the work of Second Generation Collective highlights the lived experiences of Iranian-Australians who fled Iran during the 1979 Revolution and those of their children raised on Noongar boodja. Vádyé Eshgh
- [SETTLED](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/joel-sherwood-settled/) - In his latest video, SETTLED, Wiradjuri (Central New South Wales) artist Joel Sherwood Spring critically addresses the increasingly pervasive effects of new technologies on our human experience of the world and the ongoing capitalist extraction of Aboriginal culture. SETTLED takes the form of an infomercial. Developed by mob.io, a pro-Indigenous grassroots software company, the video shows a young tech
- [Circular Economies](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/circular-economies/) - Circular Economies is an exhibition of new commissions by five local, national and international artists and collaborators, arising from a series of socially-embedded artist residencies that took place across regional Western Australia throughout 2024 to 2026. Spanning photography, video, textiles and installation, each artists’ work responds to a deep and considered engagement with both the
- [Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/aachwa-revealed-new-and-emerging-wa-aboriginal-artists-2/) - Remarkable in its breadth, Revealed conjures a journey across the vast state of Western Australia—from the red dirt of the Kimberley to the towering forests of the South-West—with works spanning painting, printmaking, photography, drawing, sculpture and weaving. Delivered under the custodianship of the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub Western Australia (AACHWA), Revealed showcases the work of
- [Café coming soon](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shannon-lyons-cafe-coming-soon/) - Café coming soon is a major mid-career survey exhibition of Western Australian artist Shannon Lyons. Presented in PICA’s West End Gallery, the exhibition will function as a radical visual compendium of Lyons’ career to date, featuring a series of large-scale sculptural installations that reflect on 20 years of Lyons’ site-responsive practice. New works will be presented alongside
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mohammed-ayo-busari-creative-development-freedom/) - Freedom, developed by Mohammed ‘Ayo Busari’ and produced by blue joy theatre company, is an interdisciplinary performance work that interrogates what it means to seek, lose and reclaim freedom across diasporic Black and African identities. Blending theatre, live music, spoken word, storytelling and cinematic audio-visual design, this visceral piece traverses Nigeria, the UK, the US
- [Hong Kong-Perth International Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/un-cheng-hong-kong-perth-international-residency/) - Arriving in Boorloo (Perth) as a featured artist in PICA’s major 2026 exhibition Painting Itself / 绘画本身, Un Cheng will undertake a four-week artist residency at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), presented in partnership with Edith Cowan University (ECU). During this time, Cheng will immerse herself in the local arts community, building meaningful
- [New Delhi-Perth International Exchange Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/asim-waqif-new-delhi-perth-international-exchange-residency/) - PICA continues its collaboration with the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA) to support the second stage of Asim Waqif’s research and development residency in Perth. During this residency, Waqif—a renowned Indian artist—will continue to connect with Perth-based arts practitioners ahead of a skills exchange with artisans in India in late 2026. Through collaboration, mentorship and
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wayne-lim-quick-response-residency/) - During his PICA Quick Response Residency, Wayne Lim will develop an experimental film that examines the complexities of familial relationships in young adulthood, shaped by migration, a search for belonging, and the banality of family life. Drawing on archival photographs and home videos that trace childhood memories with his family in Singapore and newly recorded footage
- [BREEZE: Makassar-Perth International Exchange Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/gina-korompot-breeze-makassar-perth-international-exchange-residency/) - During her residency with PICA, Gina Korompot will develop a project that explores the subjects of migration, impermanence and home through the lens of Makassan-Australian history. Drawing on her childhood experience of living in Australia for three years, Korompot will examine how displacement and belonging are shaped by personal, historical and political contexts. Working across
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sherry-quiambao-quick-response-residency/) - During her Quick Response Residency at PICA, Sherry Quiambao will begin developing a new video work for her long-term project Adrift, an exploration of water as a vessel of memory, resilience and connection across geographies and cultures. The project builds on her 2025 BREEZE residency in Makassar, Indonesia, where she documented floating houses on Lake Tempe and traced
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kumo-bako-ken-meyer-quick-response-residency/) - Kumo-bako (Ken Meyer) will use his Quick Response residency to develop new works that merge light and sound into interactive environments, exploring their relationship to our inner worlds. By amplifying these interactions through technology to create immersive spaces, he seeks to create experiences that challenge the ways in which we currently engage with, and view,
- [Hyper Local Residency ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ash-tower-hyper-local-residency/) - Ash Tower has recently returned to Boorloo (Perth) following a year-long residency at the British School at Rome. He will use his Hyper Local residency at PICA to continue his enquiry into church architecture, divination and historic accounts of stellar events. Tower will utilise the studio as both a workspace and the site of an
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/germaine-chan-quick-response-residency/) - Germaine Chan’s Quick Response residency at PICA will focus on developing a new body of work building on her existing series Woe Woe Woe!, that explores biblical allegories through layered mixed-media paintings. This new collection will examine multiple ways of representing the human form as both archetype and witness within chaotic contemporary landscapes. Chan will
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/liv-mcintyre-quick-response-residency/) - Liv McIntyre’s practice examines the fabrication of femininity in proximity to pain through the intertwined gaze of Catholicism and patriarchy. Through reclaimed textiles, natural dying processes and found materials, their work reflects on the historical violence enacted upon women’s bodies under these ideologies. In 2026 PICA and Edith Cowan University have embarked on a new
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/maraya-takoniatis-quick-response-residency/) - During her time at PICA, Maraya Takoniatis will develop a speculative reimagining of the Greek Orthodox Church (GOC) based on recent scholarship about an ancient religion practiced by the pre-Christian Greeks. Using candle-smoke from GOC candles to produce her drawings, she will work to unveil the symbolic undertones of these religious instruments. Takoniatis will also
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lauren-jane-salt-quick-response-residency/) - During her residency, Lauren Jane Salt will develop new works that investigate the idea of the body as a vessel of memory, with gesture a form of language that is passed between people, across time and held in material. Clay will be central to this inquiry, approached as both collaborator and recorder. Through sculptural experiments,
- [Open Studio: Kambarang](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-kambarang/) - Join PICA for an artist talk on Redaction Toolkit, a new collaborative project by artists Jacob Canet-Gibson, Stirling Kain, Harrison W. See and Jordee Stewart ahead of their exhibition at Lightworks in March 2026. Developed during the artists’ Quick Response residency, hear from the artists as they explore responses to speculative conflict, disaster and the
- [Quick Response Artists-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kate-oshea-enya-moore-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - During their Quick Response residency, Kate O’Shea and Enya Moore will build on their collaboration around The Wild Goose (1867), a handwritten newspaper created by Irish political prisoners aboard the Hougoumont as it sailed from Portsmouth to Walyalup/Fremantle. The artists explore how cultural practices such as print, song and spoken word can forge solidarity across oceans and
- [Quick Response Artists-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artists-in-residence/) - During their Quick Response residency at PICA, the artists will develop their collaborative project Redaction Toolkit ahead of its exhibition at Lightworks in March 2026. Redaction Toolkit is a collection of artistic responses to speculative conflict and disaster events, and their subsequent potential social effects such as redaction, censorship, mythologising and silencing. During the development
- [Hatched 2008](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2008/) - Showcasing some of the country’s finest graduates Hatched 2008 presented 62 new artists working across an array of art spanning painting, print making, ceramics, sculpture, installation, textiles, animation, photography and video. Created by a brand-new crop of Australian talent and loaded with ideas, this exhibition engaged notions of memory, perception, the environment, politics, isolation, everyday
- [HATCHED 2007](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-07/) - PICA’s annual Hatched: National Graduate Show is the most prestigious and comprehensive survey of new emerging artists in Australia today and this year’s show brought together work by 64 of the country’s finest graduates from 21 tertiary art schools. Hatched 2007 presented an array of works, featuring painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, installation, textiles, jewellery, animation, sound, photography and
- [HATCHED 06: National Graduate Show](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-06-national-graduate-show/) - The Hatched National Graduate Show is the most comprehensive national survey of emerging artists in Australia. In 2006, 20 art schools from every state and territory were represented by 58 of their leading graduates in an exhibition that has been a springboard for the professional careers of many contemporary Australian artists. Complimented by an exhibition
- [Hatched 2003](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2003/) - A wide range of work by 66 art graduates, representing 17 university art schools from every Australian state and territory, converged in Perth for this annual project. Hatched took audiences into a new world of experience, generating opportunities to engage the creative and intellectual traditions, contemporary practices and make fresh responses to living in this
- [Hatched 2002](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2002/) - Hatched 2002 featured 69 artists representing 18 university art schools, from every Australian state and territory. Hatched took audiences into a new world of experience, generating opportunities to engage the creative and intellectual traditions, contemporary practices and make fresh responses to living in this country and this region at this time.Hatched was determined by the
- [Hatched 2001](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2001/) - Hatched: National Graduate Show 2001 presented the work of 67 graduate artists across Australia, representing 15 universities and art schools. The Hatched Symposium in 2001, subtitled "Engaging Australia" drew on an outstanding line-up of speakers. PICA welcomed Blair French, Research Officer at the Power Institute, University of Sydney; Professor Anne Graham, Head of the School
- [Hatched 1999](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1999/) - The Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show 1999 was the eighth National Graduate Show to be produced by PICA , presenting work created by 61 artists from 15 university art schools in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, the ACT and Western Australia The exhibition represented a broad range of media utilised by contemporary artists at the
- [Hatched 1998](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1998/) - A unique event in Australia, PICA's seventh Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show provided an important forum from which to celebrate and contextualise the acquisition of practical, expressive and conceptual skills by Australia's visual and fine arts graduates. Hatched offered an extraordinary overview of contemporary arts practice as created by emerging artists throughout Australia. The artists
- [Hatched 1995](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1995/) - Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show '95 was the fourth national survey of recent graduates from tertiary arts institutions around Australia and provided a unique opportunity for artists recently hatched from their respective institutions to have their work viewed within a supportive, professional and critical context. This exhibition and the accompanying forum program had expanded and
- [Hatched 1993](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1993/) - For the second National Graduate Show, each art teaching institution in Australia was invited to select works from their end of year shows for exhibition at PICA.The form of the exhibition: collecting together finished art pieces, cannot give a thorough account of the training the student follows to get to this stage - that information
- [Hatched 1992](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1992/) - In 1992, PICA presented an exhibition of graduate work from almost all Australian art colleges, in recognition of the important link between art training and contemporary art practice, and providing insight into the how artists are trained and what artworks they make as a result of that training.The National Graduate Show 1992 concentrated, for the
- [Weekends at PICA: Bunuru](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-bunuru/) - PICA celebrates the opening of its first exhibition season for 2025 with an afternoon of talks and discussion focusing on two exhibitions, Laure Prouvost’s Oui Move in You and In her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy. Oui Move In You is a major solo exhibition by Turner Award-winning, French artist Laure Prouvost. Inspired by
- [Film Screening: Surveilling a Crime Scene ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/film-screening-surveilling-a-crime-scene/) - PICA invites you to join a special screening of Alana Hunt’s 2023 film Surveilling a Crime Scene. Shot on Super 8mm film, Surveilling a Crime Scene draws on the artists lived experience experiences on Gija and Miriwoong Countries in the east Kimberely region – through the town of Kununurra and its surrounds, in the remote
- [PICA After Dark: Kambarang-Birak Opening Night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-kambarang-birak/) - This Kambarang-Birak season, PICA invites you to experience a powerful program of exhibitions that explore timely questions of home, place and migration in Australia. Join us on Thursday 16 October to celebrate PICA’s final exhibition season of 2025 and three urgent and deeply resonant exhibitions that speak to the personal, political and historical dimensions of belonging.Second
- [Weekends at PICA: Kambarang](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-kambarang/) - PICA opens its final exhibitions of 2025 with an afternoon of exhibition tours, artist talks and facilitated discussions exploring notions of home, belonging and everyday life on unceded land. Join artist Alana Hunt and guest curator Jasmin Stephens for a tour of Alana Hunt’s exhibition A Deceptively Simple Need, a major new commission made possible through a
- [Enter The Valley of Love](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/enter-the-valley-of-love/) - To accompany their exhibition Vádyé Eshgh وادی عشق (Valley of Love), Second Generation Collective presents an afternoon of live music, poetry and reflection by Collective members Alia Golestani, Ranin Kousari and Araan Kousari.This community event provides insight into the creative process behind the creation of Vádyé Eshgh وادی عشق (Valley of Love), which draws on the lived experiences of the children of Iranian-Australian
- [momentum: A Mid-Career Lab for Experimentation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mid-career-momentum/) - momentum is a new artistic laboratory by pvi collective for Boorloo-based mid-career and established artists to come together and explore possibilities for their own projects and practice with the collective guidance, support and camaraderie of their peers. momentum encourages participants to become provocateurs; inspiring each other, seeking out meaningful connections and holding space for one another. momentum is open to
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/michael-bullock-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Michael Bullock’s artistic practice invests in the materials and languages of sculpture and its display, through processes and techniques of making, casting, assembling and forming. During his residency at PICA, Michael will research and develop a new project, Paper Ruins. He will draw on postcards, textbooks and obsolete technologies, such as photocopies, to examine the history
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tessa-mackay-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Tessa MacKay will be exploring a continuation of 'Social Realism', a project periodising a finite chapter where early digital photography collided with the birth of social networks, specifically Facebook, from the mid-to-late 2000’s. With the novel ability to 'tag' people in images, this nascent era is typified by users who would upload - with careless abandon -
- [Hatched 2004](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2004/) - In 2004, 68 artists from 18 tertiary art schools participated, making Hatched the largest and most comprehensive survey of emerging visual artists in the country. Hatched 2004 encompassed a diversity of art practice, from the handcrafted to the fabricated, conceptual to documentary, mechanical as well as analogue and digital technologies, both still and moving images, graphic and
- [Hatched 2000](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2000/) - The Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show 2000 presented work by 65 artists from 17 University Art Schools from every state and territory in Australia. The exhibition focused on four broad areas: Multimedia/installation: including computer generated work, electronic media, digital imaging, interactive media, installation and time based art; Design: including graphic design, industrial and product design;
- [Hatched 1997](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1997/) - Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show 1997 presented the work of 44 graduates from 12 universities and art schools across the country. This exhibition celebrated the acquisition of practical, expressive and conceptual skills by Australia's visual and fine arts graduates through their education and training, and offered a critical overview of contemporary arts practice as created
- [Hatched 1996](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1996/) - In 1996, 50 graduates from 15 institutions around Australia were hatched at PICA. The University art schools represented in this exhibition were located in both regional and metropolitan centres across Australia and whilst there was much common ground in their respective approaches to teaching and learning, approaches are also very much shaped by the specifics
- [Hatched 1994](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-1994/) - PICA's National Graduate Show 1994 showcased the work of 56 graduates from 14 art schools across Australia. As in years prior, National Graduate Show 1994 was accompanied by a discursive forum. Artists Lia Ngaree Gill – School of Fine Arts, Northern Territory (NT) Helen Buchanan – School of Fine Arts, Northern Territory (NT) Val Witt – School
- [Home of Love: Free Art Activities & Drop-in Sessions  ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/home-of-love-free-art-activities-drop-in-sessions/) - Inspired by Persian carpets, Indian textiles and the natural landscapes of her Western Australian childhood, Second Generation Collective artist Asha Kiani has created a vibrant mural in the PICA Hub that explores themes of home, memory and belonging. Drawing on Middle Eastern and South Asian patterns and symbols, Asha’s work celebrates love, identity and the ways
- [Leave Your Mark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/leave-your-mark/) - Your hands + your stories = a community masterpiece! These September school holidays, get creative with the 2025 AWESOME International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). Join us for artist-led activities, where kids (and grown-ups!) can trace, cut and decorate their own handprint self-portrait. Each handprint will
- [Hatched 2025 Closing Weekend Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2025-closing-weekend-artist-talks/) - Join us to celebrate the closing weekend of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 with an afternoon of artist talks at our exciting offsite venue in Forrest Chase. Meet the next generation of WA-based contemporary artists as they share the ideas and processes behind their Hatched artworks. Join Hatched Curatorial Associate Mia Palmer-Verevis for a curator’s
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/andy-butler-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - WA-born and Melbourne-based artist and curator Andy Butler will spend his residency at PICA undertaking artistic research with the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. Continuing his interest in the spiritual yearning of the upper classes and the collections, personal papers and archives of anthropologists in the Indo-Pacific, he will look
- [Bluebird23 ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/grace-connors-bluebird23/) - Bluebird23 is concerned with your wellbeing. How many steps did you take in the office today, did you call your mother, did you drink enough water. You look tired, did you get enough sleep last night, and the night before that? R U OK? Fill out this anonymous survey to get your wellness score. Did
- [Matter Out of Place](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/matter-out-of-place/) - Elsa Mona and Chloe Catto each interrogate systems of value through materially rich, conceptually layered practices. Mona’s work foregrounds the body as a site of vulnerability and transformation, using performance and abject sculptural forms to reflect on the relationship between human and non-human existence and the inevitability of decay. In contrast, Catto’s practice turns to industrial
- [Free Drop In Sessions: In a Spin - Tracing a Tornado ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/free-drop-in-sessions-in-a-spin-tracing-a-tornado/) - Every Saturday, PICA offers a free Drop In Session in the PICA Lab from 12–3pm where visitors of all ages can sit with one of our team and learn more about our hands-on artist designed activities. Our team will share tips about art making, demonstrate various techniques and have a chat about the importance of slow
- [Cross-Hatchings: Perth-New Delhi Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/cross-hatchings-perth-new-delhi-residency/) - During his residency at Khoj, David Brazier will explore the urban fabric of Khirki Extension, the vibrant neighborhood where Khoj is based. Known for its skyline of modified, layered and repurposed structures, Khirki embodies a rich tapestry of social and cultural complexity. Drawing inspiration from this environment, David will create a site-specific installation that responds
- [PICA Lab Activity: In a Spin - Tracing a Tornado ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-lab-activity-in-a-spin-tracing-a-tornado/) - Audiences of all ages and abilities can get creative during their visit to Hatched within the inclusive community space of the PICA Lab. This space builds on the legacy of the PICA Hub, adapted for the new venue with a focus on the intersection between art and science. Audiences of all ages are invited to
- [Weekends at PICA](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-hatched/) - Kick off the opening weekend of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 with a day of conversation and live performance at our exciting offsite venue in Forrest Chase. Meet the next generation of Australian contemporary artists as they share their ideas, processes and compelling new works. Join Hatched Curatorial Associate Mia Palmer-Verevis in a discussion with
- [Artist Talk: kith and kin](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/archie-moore-artist-talk/) - Join Archie Moore, renowned Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist and guest judge for the Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards, as he shares an artist talk to mark the opening weekend of the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025. A former Hatched alum, Moore will share insights into the development and presentation of his Golden Lion-awarded Venice Biennale work, kith and kin (2024). Moore works across a range
- [PICA After Dark: Hatched Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-hatched-opening-night-party/) - Join us on Friday 1 August to celebrate Hatched 2025 with a bespoke PICA After Dark Opening Party. Each year the Hatched: National Graduate Show invites you to experience the next wave of Australian contemporary artists. And this year, for the first time, Hatched will be hosted in a new offsite location – an expansive floor of Forrest Chase in Perth’s
- [Intensive Mentorship: Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studios-intensive-mentorship/) - PICA’s groundbreaking immersive arts program boorda yeyi supports the intersection of emergent technologies and artistic practice. In its first year, the program incorporates artist training, symposiums, commissions and presentations of immersive artworks. The Intensive Mentorship program provides three selected artists or groups an opportunity to create an artwork prototype with a collaborative team of technical artists,
- [PICA Hub Activity: Light Play ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-hub-activity-light-play/) - French artist, Laure Prouvost, uses the ancient form of shadow puppetry to tell stories. In her video Shadow Does, presented in PICA’s ground floor galleries, we hear the voice of a little girl as she whispers secrets to her Grandmother about the world around her. We don’t see the face of this character, just her
- [Hatched Family Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-family-day-3/) - Get creative with the whole family at PICA’s Hatched Family Day! Book your spot in these free, hands-on workshops led by artists. Come to one or both! Explore the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy—at a new scale. Using oversized brushes and full-body movement, this hands-on workshop with Hatched artist, Grace Yong, blends tradition with experimentation. You’re invited to play
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/may-bluebell-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - During her Quick Response residency, May Bluebell will develop a new body of work grounded in a recent return trip to the Pilbara, an area she spent much of her childhood. Walking familiar tracks behind the town, she traced fragments of memory in rocks and hidden corners. The resulting body of work will explore the
- [Hatched: Knowledge Sharing Sessions](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-knowledge-sharing-sessions-2025/) - These knowledge-sharing sessions are designed to create meaningful opportunities for Hatched artists and graduating Fine Art students to exchange insights, share personal experiences and explore key areas of professional practice. Each session is co-facilitated by an industry expert and a member of the PICA team, fostering an open and supportive environment for discussion. Artists are encouraged
- [Studio Booster Program: Diving for Dust](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/studio-booster-program-diving-for-dust-diving-for-dust/) - Diving for Dust explores the emotional toll and gendered dynamics of FIFO (Fly-In, Fly-Out) life on a young, heteronormative relationship during WA’s late-2000s mining boom. Set between a white tiled Perth suburban home and red desert work sites, the play follows Olive and Trent, a couple pushed to the edge by mundane routine, private addiction and
- [Hatched Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/elas-mona-hatched-artist-in-residence/) - Presented as part of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025, the Hatched artist-in-residence program offers a residency to one WA-based and one interstate artist participating in the Hatched exhibition. This opportunity provides time, space and a new context to develop their practice, embark on new projects and be a part of PICA’s creative community. Elsa Mona’s practice engages with movement
- [Hatched Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/chloe-catto-hatched-artist-in-residence/) - Presented as part of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025, the Hatched artist-in-residence program offers a residency to one WA-based and one interstate artist participating in the Hatched exhibition. This opportunity provides time, space and a new context to develop their practice, embark on new projects and be a part of PICA’s creative community. During her residency at PICA, Chloe
- [MUSE](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/muse/) - PICA is proud to support the Most Promising Contemporary Performance Award to graduates of the Bachelor of Performing Arts at WAAPA. The award consists of a two-week development period at PICA plus mentoring and support from the PICA team. In 2024, the Award went to Talia Zipper, Laura Goodlet, Emily Jenkins and Isobel Finnie for
- [PICA Hub Activity: Many Leaves, One Tree   ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-hub-activity-many-leaves-one-tree/) - What’s your story of family, nature and place? Emily Rose is a Noongar and Yamatji artist who lives and works in Boorloo (Perth) and was born in Narrogin, which means ‘Place of Water’ in Noongar language. This season in the PICA Hub, share your own stories while reflecting on Emily Rose's works in Revealed: New and Emerging
- [Timelines of Lifetimes](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/timelines-of-lifetimes/) - Memories shared with loved ones are like marks on a timeline. Artists Paul Knight and Jack Ball reflect on living histories while imagining future possibilities. Their photographic installations consider human connection and change. In the PICA Hub, you too can transform old photographic images into new possibilities by using collage and weaving techniques. Make your
- [Hatched 2014](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2014/) - The Hatched: National Graduate Show is a curated showcase of new art from Australia’s top graduates. Striking images, unsettling video works and bold installation art encompass a wide span of cutting-edge ideas and processes. Traditional techniques are used experimentally, pushing the boundaries of ceramics, painting, printmaking and photography, whilst combinations of unwieldy materials including toothpaste, elastic bands
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-national-graduate-show-2024/) - 'Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024' presents a dynamic selection of emerging artists recently graduated from art schools across Australia.
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-national-graduate-show-2023/) - Hatched: National Graduate Show presented a dynamic showcase of emerging artists recently graduated from 21 art schools across Australia. In 2023, 26 artists were nominated by their teachers and selected by a panel comprising Archie Barry (artist, Melbourne), Glenn Iseger-Pilkington (curator, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth) and Hannah Mathews (Director/CEO, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts). Created in
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-national-graduate-show-2022/) - Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022 presented the work of leading emerging artists recently graduated from art schools across the nation. Since establishing Hatched in 1992 PICA has worked with generations of makers and watched many of them establish themselves as leading artists with enduring practices.Selected by a panel of national and international artists and curators,
- [Hatched: National Graduate Show 2021](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2021/) - In 2021, PICA celebrated 30 years supporting the work of Australia's leading artists at the earliest stages of their careers through the iconic Hatched: National Graduate Show, the only national exhibition of its kind. Over this time PICA has presented the work of over a thousand artists who have gone on to help define contemporary
- [Hatched National Graduate Show 2020](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2020-2/) - The work of 24 recent visual arts graduates from every State and Territory took over the PICA galleries for the Hatched National Graduate Show 2020. An enduring institution and a key event in PICA’s ongoing commitment to supporting the careers of Australia’s most promising emerging artists, Hatched features the work of freshly graduated artists from across
- [Hatched 2019](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2019/) - Since 1992, the Hatched National Graduate Show has presented the work of over one thousand artists alongside that of their national peers in this unique showcase of emergent talent. Many of Australia’s most successful artistic careers have been launched this way. Hatched 2019 presented the work of 18 exceptional graduates who collectively demonstrate the expansive
- [Hatched 2018](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2018/) - Since 1992, the Hatched: National Graduate Show has presented the work of over 1000 artists alongside that of their national peers in this unique showcase of emergent talent. Many of Australia’s most successful artistic careers have been launched this way.From painting, sculpture and drawing, to installation, video, and sound work, this exhibition offers an intriguing snapshot of
- [Hatched 2015](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-3/) - The annual Hatched: National Graduate Show tracks the changing trends and developments in emerging contemporary art by providing an annual snapshot of the country’s aesthetic mood. It has become a vital compass in identifying a new generation of emerging artists, fresh out of art school and eager to embark on their careers. 2015 saw the 24th iteration
- [Hatched 2005](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2005/) - Australia's most recent batch of innovative and edgy visual artists goes on show for PICA's annual Hatched exhibition. A wide range of work by 60 art graduates, representing 20 university art schools from every Australian state and territory, converged in Perth for this national event - the largest and most prestigious survey of emerging artists in Australia.This
- [Hatched 2016](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2016/) - The Hatched: National Graduate Show maps the trends and concerns of Australia’s next generation of emerging contemporary artists. Featuring 34 graduates from 23 art schools and universities nationally, Hatched is a celebration of the most exciting emerging artists from across the country. The $35,000 Schenberg Art Fellowship is awarded to one of these emerging artists for career development. 2016
- [Restore](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/strut-dance-restore/) - PICA partners with STRUT Dance to present Restore, a dynamic double bill of new and recent dance works highlighting innovation and cross-regional collaboration. In 2025, Restore features a new choreographic commission from Adelina Larsson Mendoza and the West Australian premiere of CUDDLE by Harrison Ritchie-Jones. In CUDDLE, two of Melbourne’s contemporary dance artists on
- [Hatched 2017](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2017/) - The Hatched: National Graduate Show features work by recent arts graduates of the highest calibre from art schools all over the country. With work by 35 graduates carefully selected from 3 tertiary institutions in each of Australia’s states and territories, Hatched 2017 once again tested the pulse of the nation’s emerging arts practices while acting as an important
- [Open Studios: Makuru](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studios-makuru/) - Join us for an evening with our current Hyper Local artists-in-residence, Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca McCauley, alongside our BREEZE: Perth-Makassar exchange artist, Aziziah Diah Aprilya, for an evening to peek inside their studios and see what they’ve been working on during their time at PICA. During their six-month residency at PICA, Rebecca and Aaron have been
- [Hatched 2013](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2013/) - PICA's ever-popular Hatched returned in 2013 for its 22nd edition. Continuing to be the only national survey of its kind, Hatched 2013 featured 37 artists from 20 art schools across Australia. A total of 90 students were considered for selection by a panel comprised of MCA Curator Glenn Barkley; Independent Curator Isabel Ching; Artist and
- [Hatched 2012](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2012/) - It’s a real coming of age for Hatched. In 2012, the landmark exhibition that has launched the careers of many Australian artists – turned 21! Every year for the past two decades Hatched has tracked the changing trends and developments in emerging contemporary art by providing an annual snapshot of the country’s aesthetic mood. The Hatched artists of 2012 continued
- [Hatched National Graduate Show 2011](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-national-graduate-show-2011/) - HATCHED HAS TURNED 20! Hatched has been the launching pad for the professional careers of many of the country's most successful contemporary artists. Presenting its 20th year, the exhibition has been exclusively presented by PICA since 1992. It is a landmark occasion for both Hatched and PICA and firmly places the event as one of
- [Hatched 2010](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2010/) - Hatched: National Graduate Show is Australia’s most significant survey of emerging artists. Heading into its 19th year, this landmark exhibition continued to provide an unparalleled opportunity for talented art school graduates to present their work in a professional gallery context alongside that of their national peers. It offered an all-important stepping-stone from the realm of
- [Hatched 2009](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2009/) - PICA’s annual Hatched: National Graduate Show is the most prestigious and comprehensive survey of new emerging artists in Australia today. Showcasing some of the country’s finest graduates Hatched 2009 presented us with a startling array of art spanning painting, print making, sculpture, installation, photography and video. The leading exhibition of its kind in Australia, Hatched has
- [Conference on Hope](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/zendra-giraudo-eliza-smith-conference-on-hope/) - Conference on Hope is a new experiment in dance theatre, co-created by Zendra Giraudo and Eliza Smith with mentorship from Dr Renee Newman and Dr Emma Fishwick. The project blends performance lecture, AV, dance, poetry and imagery to tell the story of a single unwieldy and metamorphic day, narrated by an astronaut who becomes both
- [Heavy grit](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jack-ball/) - Artist Jack Ball works across photography, collage, embellishment and performance to create heightened and vivid installations.
- [Restore 2024](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/restore/) - This event has passed. Please click here for Restore 2025.PICA and STRUT Dance present Restore – a triple bill of new and recent dance works from artists across the Asia-Pacific region. Restore is a pilot program that spotlights restoration, connection and exchange in the region with an eye to sustainable creative choreographic practice. In 2024, Restore features
- [Sites of Care: Bringing the Garden into the Gallery](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sites-of-care-bringing-the-garden-into-the-gallery/) - Join current PICA Quick Response Artists-in-Residence Meet Me In The Garden in conversation with local artists Donna Franklin and Sophie Nixon as they explore the garden as a space of care, interdependence and creative practice. Bringing elements of the garden into the gallery, these artists illuminate the urgent challenges of climate change while inviting us to
- [Perth-Paris Artist-in-Residence Exchange](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/thu-van-tran-perth-paris-exchange-artist-in-residence/) - During her residency at PICA, Thu Van Tran will explore the importance of fire and survival from a spiritual perspective. Utilising ceramics, earth and plants, materials that undergo transformative processes through fire, she will explore how destruction by consumption can give birth to new forms, new meanings. By incorporating locally sourced earth into her creations,
- [Residency Showcase](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/residency-showcase/) - French-Vietnamese artist Thu Van Tran presents a body of work developed over the course of a long-term studio residency in partnership between PICA, the French Embassy and North Metropolitan TAFE. Since February 2025, Tran has been developing a series of ceramic sculptures that respond to the environment of Western Australia. The project began with a series of
- [Studio Booster](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/studio-booster-naoko-uemoto-julie-ziegenhardt/) - In 2025, Performing Lines WA have collaborated with PICA to present the Studio Booster Program, which provides time, space and funds for four artists or groups to ‘boost’ a creative idea or project. As a duo, Julie Ziegenhardt (animation) and Naoko Uemoto (music) have been making immersive works that bring together their interests in digital
- [2006](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2006/) - Yes it is that time of the year - when PICA fills every conceivable space within its vast walls with the very latest from Australia's most emerging, contemporary artists. PICA's annual HATCHED: National Graduate Show gives art school graduates from around Australia the opportunity to break out of their shell, or at least the sheltered
- [2004](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2004/) - The Hatched: Hea/thway National Graduate Show is thirteen this year and like most teenagers, overflowing with energy, ideas, talent and emotions. This is the eleventh year that I have overseen the production of this unique, national initiative. It's wonderful to report - in a world saturated in visual images - that far from being jaded
- [2003](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2003/) - PICA is proud to present the twelfth Hatched: Hea/thway National Graduate Show, which in 2003 is representing 66 artists from seventeen tertiary art schools nationally, making it the largest and most comprehensive survey of emerging visual artists in Australia. PICA is delighted that the Hon. Sheila McHale, WA Minister for Culture & the Arts has
- [2002](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2002/) - Now in its eleventh year, the Hatched: Healthway National Graduate Show, which comprises an exhibition, a catalogue and a symposium, is the largest and most comprehensive project supporting emerging visual artists nationally. For many graduating artists it provides a significant opportunity in that difficult period following the structured and resourced life of a tertiary institution
- [Sun-Printed Stories: Cyanotype Workshop for Reconciliation Week ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sun-printed-stories-cyanotype-workshop-for-reconciliation-week/) - Support Australia’s vibrant community of First Nation’s artists this National Reconciliation Week while exploring the power of storytelling through image-making. Join us for a cyanotype workshop led by Jacinta Taylor — a proud Gnudju/Noongar Yued artist featured in the Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibition at PICA. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn
- [Studio Booster](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/studio-booster-barbara-hostalek/) - In 2025, Performing Lines WA have collaborated with PICA to present the Studio Booster Program, which provides time, space and funds for four artists or groups to ‘boost’ a creative idea or project. Performed by a cast of three First Nations actors, ASK explores the complexities of family dynamics through a mix of magical realism
- [Reconciliation Week: Revealed Curator Tour ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reconciliation-week-revealed-curator-tour/) - Join us this Reconciliation Week as we celebrate Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists with an exclusive exhibition tour led by exhibition curator, Zali Morgan, a Whadjuk, Ballardong and Wilman Noongar woman. Gain a deeper insight into the exhibition as Morgan shares her curatorial perspective on several works in the exhibition. She will also offer
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/louise-rae-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Louise Rae will investigate the effects of trauma, societal anxiety and chronic illness on women’s bodies through the creation of a surrogate textile human body. Through digital and material experimentation, she will examine how this surrogate reflects our current cultural perceptions of disabled, aging female bodies.
- [Open Studios: Djeran-Makuru](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studios-djeran-makuru/) - Join us for an evening with our current Quick Response artists-in-residence—Samuel Beilby and Meet Me In The Garden (Claire Billie Bushby, W. Sze Tsang and Mark Wahlsten)—alongside our Regional Quick Response artist, Marcia Leonard, who has spent the past four weeks at PICA, travelling from her home in Esperance to connect with local arts communities
- [Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/aachwa-revealed-new-and-emerging-wa-aboriginal-artists/) - The exhibition spotlights artists at various stages in their careers and offers a rare chance to purchase their work, with all proceeds going directly to artists and their communities, supporting the continuation of emerging Aboriginal artists’ practices.Remarkable in its breadth, Revealed transports visitors across the state – from the red dirt of the Kimberley to the towering
- [Block Party: Djinang](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/block-party-djinang/) - You’re invited to PICA’s Block Party: Djinang. We team up with our friends at The Blue Room Theatre and Picabar once more, to bring you a final party in the PICA carpark. Join us as we continue to celebrate the Djeran–Makuru season at PICA, consisting of Revealed and GUDIRR GUDIRR. Curated and hosted by Cezera
- [GUDIRR GUDIRR](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/vernon-ah-kee-dalisa-pigram-gudirr-gudirr/) - GUDIRR GUDIRR is a multi-channel video and sound installation directed by Vernon Ah Kee and filmed on location in Rubibi (Broome) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia for Marrugeku. This striking three-screen installation re-imagines the original solo dance performance by movement artist Dalisa Pigram conceived together with Patrick Dodson. Gudirr Gudirr (the guwayi bird) calls when the tide is turning
- [Taipei-Perth Artist-in-Residence Exchange](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yen-yen-ho-taipei-perth-exchange-artist-in-residence/) - As both an artist and archaeology assistant, Yen Yen Ho's residency at PICA will focus on exploring the relationship between linguistic systems across Taiwan, Southeast Asia and Australia. By examining archaeological pottery collections as evidence of shared histories, she seeks to uncover hidden cultural connections. Through her research, Ho aims to understand how carefully constructed
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/erin-ginty-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Erin Ginty will develop her project diagrams for divination, a speculative ceramic installation that imagines a world where magic replaces the role of technology. Through the creation of ceramic devices, tools, gadgets and equipment that incorporate elements of the occult, she explores magical reasoning, ritualism and alchemy. In doing so she speculates how these methods
- [Weekends at PICA: Revealed](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-revealed/) - Join us at PICA for a dynamic opening weekend celebrating Aboriginal art and culture! Experience the vibrancy and diversity of the Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibition and Vernon Ah Kee and Marrugeku’s dance film GUDIRR GUDIRR with a weekend packed with artist talks, workshops, performances and panel discussions. In 2025, for the first time, PICA will host the Revealed exhibition, an annual showcase established in
- [PICA After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-revealed-opening/) - To celebrate the opening of Revealed: New and Emerging Aboriginal Artists and the Djeran–Makuru season at PICA, we invite you to join us this Friday for PICA After Dark: Revealed Opening. Staring at 6pm, hear Alton Walley’s Welcome to Country, followed by a performance by Middar Dance Group. From 7pm the galleries are open, while
- [Studio Booster Program: The Scramble](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/studio-booster-program-shaun-johnston/) - In 2025, Performing Lines WA have collaborated with PICA to present the Studio Booster Program, which provides time, space and funds for four artists or groups to ‘boost’ a creative idea or project. The Scramble examines the frictions found in competitive wrestling to explore the codes of touch in male friendships, questioning sociocultural norms and
- [Boorloo Heritage Festival at PICA](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/boorloo-heritage-festival-at-pica/) - Go behind the scenes at PICA during the City of Perth’s Boorloo Heritage Festival to see an iconic heritage building located in the Perth Cultural Centre.
- [Boorloo Heritage Festival at PICA ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/boorloo-heritage-festival-at-pica-2/) - Delving into PICA’s 35-year archive, Mia Palmer-Verevis (Hatched Curatorial Associate, 2025-26) presents a selection of program ephemera from a critical year in PICA’s evolution – 1989. Polishing off a decade of ambition and collectivising, 1989 was PICA’s first complete year of ambitious and diverse programming – a year additionally significant due to the appointment of
- [Block Party: Glimpse](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/block-party-glimpse/) - You’re invited to join PICA and our neighbours, the Blue Room Theatre and Picabar for our first ever BLOCK PARTY!Celebrate the launch of the Blue Room’s 2025 Season with a line-up of Boorloo artists spanning the experimental to the street. Experience a collaborative exploration of improvised music and poetry by Sage Pbbbt and friends. Get up and
- [Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studios-bunuru/) - This Bunuru season, PICA is thrilled to host Yen Yen Ho (Taipei) and Thu Van Tran (Paris) as part of our International Artist Exchange Program. Throughout their residencies, both artists will open their studios, offering an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their creative processes and research. In conversation with PICA Public Program & Studio Manager Miranda Johnson,
- [Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon  ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bhenji-ra-biraddali-dancing-on-the-horizon/) - Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon is the latest moving image work from Australian-Filipina artist, Bhenji Ra. Featuring an original score by Tati au Miel, the film documents the transfer of ancestral, intergenerational knowledge between Ra and her teacher and collaborator Sitti Airia Sangkula Askalani Obeso. A Tausug elder, Obeso is a cultural bearer of the
- [The offering: a live performance](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-offering/) - Acclaimed Australian-Filipina artist Bhenji Ra reunites with her teacher and longtime collaborator, Sitti Airia Sangkula Askalani Obeso, a Tausug elder and cultural bearer, for an intimate, site-specific performance of pangalay at PICA. Live music by Pahad Lapidan Panayaman will accompany the performance throughout the gallery. Rooted in the traditions of the Tausug and Sama peoples of the southern Philippines, pangalay is
- [International Women’s Day Curator Talks 'Oui Move in You' and 'In Her Footsteps'](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/international-womens-day-curator-talks/) - Join us at PICA this International Women’s Day for a special morning tea and curator-led tours of two exhibitions: Oui Move In You by Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost and In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy, a group exhibition honouring the influence of women across generations. Laure Prouvost’s Oui Move In You is a
- [A Self Portrait](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-self-portrait/) - Working across mediums, borders, cultures, and disciplines, Khaled Sabsabi explores the complexities of place, identity, displacement, and ideological differences associated with migrant experiences and marginalisation to promote cultural awareness and acceptance. A Self Portrait is the biggest survey exhibition of Sabsabi’s work to date and features a new commission as well as several works not
- [After Dark: Bunuru Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/after-dark-bunuru-opening-night-party/) - PICA After Dark is back – bigger, bolder and now our official season opener, welcoming each season with an evening of entertainment, community and discovery. Entry is free. Join us in the gallery on Thursday 6 February for the first After Dark of 2025 – the opening of our Perth Festival exhibitions, including Laure Prouvost’s Oui
- [BREEZE: Makassar-Perth Artist-in-Residence Exchange](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/makassar-perth-artist-in-residence-exchange/) - Aziziah Diah Aprilya is a photographer, writer and cultural practitioner based in Makassar, South Sulawesi. She will dedicate her residency in Perth to exploring the tamarind tree as a living symbol of cultural exchange between Makassar and coastal Australia. Introduced to Australia by Makassan sailors during their historic voyages, tamarind trees hold deep significance, representing
- [Perth-Taipei Artist-in-Residence Exchange](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emma-buswell-perth-taipei-exchange-artist-in-residence/) - During her residency at Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Emma Buswell will delve into the complex histories of labour and class politics, focusing on the industrial boom of the 1960s that significantly improved the quality of life for everyday citizens. Using a vintage 1960s knitting machine, she will craft a new body of work that
- [BREEZE: Perth-Makassar Artist-in-Residence Exchange](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sherry-quiambao-perth-makassar-exchange-artist-in-residence/) - During her residency at Rumata’ Artspace, Makassar, Sherry Quiambao will develop her project Horizon: Habitat, which explores water as a metaphor for the fluidity of cultural identity and migration. Drawing on her experience as a second-generation Filipino/Australian, she will examine how material aspirations and consumerism shape identity and belonging. In Makassar – a city deeply
- [Cross-Hatchings: New Delhi-Perth Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/cross-hatchings-international-exchange-ayesha-singh/) - While on residency in Boorloo (Perth), Delhi based artist, Ayesha Singh will research the movement of people and communities in and out of the city. With a focus on architecture, she will consider the histories of communities that have been hidden, displaced and removed, responding to this research through the development of site-specific installations, conversations
- [Regional Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/regional-quick-response-residency/) - During her residency Marcia Leonard will experiment with a variety of materials and techniques to create an installation that captures the essence of gardens. This project will explore the contrasts between beauty and unpredictability, highlighting the relationship between carefully cultivated gardens and the wildness of untamed nature.
- [Oui Move In You](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/laure-prouvost-oui-move-in-you/) - Oui Move In You is a major solo exhibition by Turner Award-winning, French artist Laure Prouvost. Best known for creating idiosyncratic immersive installations combining film and mixed media, Oui Move In You introduces Western Australian audiences to the imaginative, absorbing and frequently absurdist hallmarks of Prouvost’s artistic practice.Inspired by the radical, experimental and pathfinding figures
- [Birak Market](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/birak-market/) - Birak marks the hot and dry season, when the warm days are cooled by the afternoon sea breeze and a dip in the maambakoort (ocean) or Derbal Yerrigan (Swan River). The start of the season also sees the vibrant flowering of Nuytsia Floribunda, known as the Western Australian Christmas Tree, just in time for end of year
- [New Delhi-Perth International Exchange Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/new-delhi-perth-international-exchange-residency/) - In collaboration with the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA), PICA is excited to host renowned Indian artist Asim Waqif for a residency centered on the research and development of a major installation for IOTA 2027. During this initial residency, Waqif will build meaningful connections with local First Nations artists, fostering opportunities for the exchange of
- [In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/perth-festival-in-her-footsteps-a-tribute-to-matrilineal-legacy/) - In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy brings together seven Australian artists who pay homage to the women who have shaped their lives—grandmothers, mothers, artistic matriarchs, leaders, ancestors and forebears. It celebrates and acknowledges the vital, transformative and nurturing pathways these women have forged, delving into themes of activism and empowerment through a compelling
- [Site Lines: Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/site-lines-open-studio/) - Join Ayesha Singh, Cross-Hatchings: New Delhi-Perth artist-in-residence for a special open studio event at PICA. To remember To hold To carefully acknowledge Singh invites you to explore her studio, where lines, movement and words come together in an intimate gathering. During her residency, she has been researching the colonial transformations and urbanisation of Perth, focusing on how
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/meet-me-in-the-garden-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Meet Me In The Garden is an ongoing project that explores suburban gardens in Western Australia and the relationships between gardeners, plants and local ecology. The project combines sound, print, sculpture and video to examine how individuals connect with their gardens and the interactions between humans, pets, wildlife and plants in these suburban environments.
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artist-in-residence-6/) - arvae and SAE Greenhouse Art-Lab reading sessions center decolonial feminist perspectives on agroecology. While at PICA they will be in processes of archiving/self-publishing; formulating their upcoming cycle of reading sessions; connecting with local archives, bookshops and collectives.
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artist-in-residence-5/) - Laura Boynes will collaborate with video artist Tee Ken Ng to develop their project Persistence of Vision. This project examines the nature of perception, blending movement with animation and cinematic techniques.
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/laura-ward-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - During her residency, Laura Ward will create large-scale beaded works to be featured in durational performances that address ideas relating to the human body, health and emotional trauma. Through the development of these works, Ward invites audiences to engage in meaningful dialogue about the body’s capabilities and limitations.
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/elena-betros-lopez-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - While in residence at PICA, Elena Betros López will develop her moving image work Abuela, a poignant exploration of the life of her Abuela (grandmother) Paulina during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. A series of intimate interviews will prioritise Paulina’s own account of her life in Spain which was marred by poverty, hunger and labour
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/harrison-cook-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - During his residency, Harrison Cook will explore Te Hokinga Mai, a Māori concept meaning ‘to return home.’ Through movement and deep listening practices, Harrison seeks to understand the emotional and spiritual effects of his separation from Aotearoa, and how this distance has impacted his wairua (spirit).
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/laurie-steed-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Author Laurie Steed will develop his novel Illuminate, the richly allegorical tale of Arin, a fallen god, and Pier, a human who makes cathartic, redemptive works of art as a way of letting go of a traumatic upbringing. As a novel with art and artists at the core of its story, Steed will draw on
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artist-in-residence-2/) - Lulani Mitchell-Oehlers will develop their project Between Us, and You, a series of video works exploring the relationship between her and her twin brother. Through storytelling that shifts between truth and fiction, she questions how their lived experience differs from conventional understandings of the nature of twin relationships. This project is referencing a twin experiment they
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/melanie-hobbs-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Melanie Hobbs will develop her next collection of stories that explore the experiences of women of colour in Australia. Inspired by fairytales, folklore and classic dystopian fiction, the monsters will be both real and metaphorical.
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/narelle-lemon-quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - The Citizen Wellbeing Scientist project is an innovative, participatory research initiative exploring everyday self-care practices. During her residency, Narelle Lemon will experiment with immersive installation techniques, incorporating projection mapping and interactive soundscapes to create a multi-sensory experience that allows audiences to explore and reflect on diverse self-care practices.
- [Hyper Local Artists-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/aaron-claringbold-rebecca-mccauley-hyper-local-artists-in-residence/) - During their six-month Hyper Local residency, Aaron Claringbold and Rebecca McCauley will develop two long-term projects. Emerging from a residency with Art on the Move in Gathaagudu (Shark Bay, WA), What can I say without touching the earth with my hands (working title) is a new body of images which considers people’s interconnected relationships with their environments. Facilitated by the
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artist-in-residence-3/) - Rose Fetwasdjieff’s project examines the attitudes and ethics surrounding animals as remnants of Australia’s colonial history. The work invites viewers to reflect on their responsibilities in a landscape marked by exploitation and environmental degradation. She will create textile faux-taxidermy black swans, symbols of Western Australia, to invite reflections on colonialism, biodiversity and ethics.
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artist-in-residence/) - Probed Depths/Rich Yields explores a complex history of fossil fuel and energy extractionin Samuel Beilby’s family hometown. Drawing from the archives of the State Library of Western Australia and the Coalfields Museum and Historical Research Centre, Beilby will explore the tensions between mining as a cornerstone of working-classidentity, its ecological impact and the nuanced legacy of
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/undercurrent-theatre-company/) - While in residence at PICA Undercurrent Theatre Company will creatively adapt Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a contemporary nightclub setting, focusing on themes of identity, escape, fantasy and desire. The adaptation will blend the play’s classic elements with the vibrant, surreal qualities of club life, exploring how individuals play with identity, anonymity and freedom
- [Listening Bodies: A Performance Making Workshop for Play, Presence and Possibility](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/listening-bodies-a-performance-making-workshop-for-play-presence-and-possibility/) - Emma Maye Gibson (AKA Betty Grumble) is a Warrane (Sydney)–based performance artist known for her genre-smashing works across ritual theatre, cabaret, performance art and multi-media. For over a decade, Grumble has embraced spiritual practices, creativity and performance art. Her workshop Listening Bodies invites participants to forge space for exploration, openness and communication to better
- [STRUT First Nations Dance Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/janine-oxenham-strut-first-nations-dance-artist-in-residence/) - During her residency at PICA, Janine Oxenham explores the complex dynamics of connection, belonging and safety in personal and communal contexts. Her work seeks to investigate how individuals navigate and understand these concepts in relation to broader societal issues.
- [Homo Pentecostus ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/joel-bray-dance-homo-pentecostus/) - 'Carefully, gently, with a mix of irresistible humour and breathtaking, desolating honesty, he brings his audience with him.' – Alison Croggon Join an odyssey of self-discovery and liberation. Actor, dancer and writer Joel Bray invites you to an intimate exploration of his secret queer identity within the confines of a 1990s Pentecostal Church. Partake in
- [Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studios/) - In 2024 PICA inaugurated two new studio programs. Our Company-in-Residence program is a three-year residency for a WA arts company and invites solidarity and sector collaboration by sharing resources, ideas and spaces. The Hyper Local program is a six-month residency for a WA artist that shares space and resources to allow for the development and
- [Weekends at PICA: Kambarang–Birak](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-kambarang-birak/) - PICA opens its final exhibitions of 2024 with an afternoon of exhibition tours, artist talks, a book launch and more. Join Robert Cook, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, for a tour of Paul Knight’s exhibition L’ombre de ton ombre (The shadow of your shadow), which presents new and recent
- [L’ombre de ton ombre (The shadow of your shadow)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/paul-knight-lombre-de-ton-ombre-the-shadow-of-your-shadow/) - 'L’ombre de ton ombre (The shadow of your shadow)' by Paul Knight presents new and recent photographic works that index Knight's relationship with his partner.
- [Held within a word](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/robert-andrew/) - Held within a word by Meanjin (Brisbane)-based artist Robert Andrew combines kinetic installations with programmable technologies and natural materials such as wood, stone, ochres and soil. A descendant of the Yawuru people whose Country is of the Broome region of the Kimberley, Western Australia, Andrew’s installations are expressions of experiences deeply rooted in his own
- [After Dark: Pride Edition ft. Cooper Cooper](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/after-dark-pride-edition-ft-cooper-cooper/) - PICA presents a special Pride edition of After Dark, a vibrant celebration of late-night art, music and queer narratives, featuring a dynamic live set from DJ Cooper Cooper. Discover Jack Ball's Heavy grit, a new work created for PICA that blends archival and personal images to reveal fragments of trans histories and desires. Paul Knight’s
- [what was or could be today (again)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shannon-te-ao-what-was-or-could-be-today-again/) - 'What was or could be today (again)' by Shannon Te Ao follows athlete Ngarama Milner-Olsen as she swims across Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest body of water
- [Falling Towards Another (A Score for the Void)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/diana-baker-smith-falling-towards-another-a-score-for-the-void/) - Falling Towards Another (A Score for the Void) by Diana Baker Smith is the second Judy Wheeler Commission – PICA’s annual series of site-specific works.
- [Yandilup](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/j-d-penangke-yandilup/) - Yandilup is an outdoor mural painting by artist J.D. Penangke commissioned for PICA’s new entrance. Titled after the Noongar name of the low lying wetlands area where PICA is located, this new site-specific work builds on J.D.’s extensive body of murals and public art across Boorloo (Perth). J.D. Penangke is a Whadjuk, Balladong, Arrernte woman
- [IT IS THE COLOUR OF AN IDEA THAT WILL NOT COMPLETE ITSELF IN OUR LIFETIME ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/agatha-gothe-snape/) - Artist Agatha Gothe-Snape brings her distinct methodologies for mediating space and our relationships to it, in her new installation work in PICA's foyer.
- [BLEED: In Conversation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bleed-in-conversation-2/) - BLEED exhibiting artist Tom Blake discusses the process of making leaves in the stream during his six-week residency at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei. Taking place as part of PICA’s International Studio Exchange Program, this work was inspired by repetition and fragmentation which contextualises the artist's observations of the ways people engage with digital
- [BLEED: In Conversation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bleed-in-conversation/) - BLEED artist Yinga Chen discusses his artwork Eternal Journey of the Digital Soul with artist, curator and artwork subject Paul Boyé. Harnessing AI technology to create distinct digital personas, Chen interviewed four individuals from various backgrounds and ages (including Boyé) to explore their views on life, death, identity and legacy. With this work, Chen invites
- [High VisAbility: Pop-up Exhibition](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/high-visability-pop-up-exhibition/) - Come and celebrate identity, visibility and possibility at a playful pop-up exhibition at PICA as part of the 2024 AWESOME Festival
- [Forget-Me-Not Memory Cafe](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/forget-me-not-memory-cafe/) - People living with memory loss and their support networks are warmly invited to PICA for a special community gathering hosted by Forget-Me-Not Dementia Support. Join us in the PICA Foyer for a 'Memory Cafe,' where you can enjoy morning tea and participate in tactile creative activities designed to engage the senses and spark joyful connections.
- [AWESOME Creative Hub: Stop Motion Pet Shop  ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/awesome-creative-hub-stop-motion-pet-shop/) - Join artist Steven Aiton in the AWESOME Creative Hub at PICA and enter the magical world of stop-motion animation.
- [2023 AWESOME Festival Presents: Sea of Light –Patch Theatre](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2023-awesome-festival-presents-sea-of-light-patch-theatre/) - Embark on a journey of imagination in this illuminating interactive installation by Patch Theatre. With a UV torch as your paintbrush, paint and stencil your own voyage. Steer ships that leave glowing paths of light in their wake as you sail them across the sea floor. Sea of Light creates magic through light and sound
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artist-in-residence-laura-sikes/) - Laura Sikes’ creative practice explores how technology is shaping our understanding of body and identity. She will use her time in residence at PICA to create new photographic images of her body to explore how we curate identities online.
- [PICA After Dark 2023](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-2023/) - Returning in 2023, start your weekend at PICA After Dark, a series of Friday-night music events in November and December. Explore Roberta Joy Rich’s exhibition The Purple Shall Govern and enjoy a beer thanks to our friends at Rocky Ridge Brewing while listening to sets from some of Boorloo's favourite DJs. Line Up 10 November
- [Quick Response Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-artist-in-residence-moses-kington-walberg/) - Moses Mohammed Kington-Walberg is a sound artist interested in the unique and complex acoustics of Australian landscapes. During his residency at PICA, Moses will develop an installation combining field recordings collected from around Australia, lamp shadows, colour projections and electroacoustic composition. In doing so, he will craft an immersive space where the sounds and light
- [Hyper Local Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jc/) - JC’s practice embraces sculpture, installation, performance and new media works to investigate contemporary conceptions of gender, sexuality, desire and embodied identity. They focus on building resilience across queer generations in an increasingly precarious world. During their six-month Hyper Local residency, JC’s project presences queer histories in public space in Perth using augmented reality (AR) technologies.
- [Unleash Your Imagination with Stop-Motion Saturdays!  ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/unleash-your-imagination-with-stop-motion-saturdays/) - Ready to turn screen time into a creative adventure? Dive into the world of stop-motion animation by joining us in the PICA Hub on Saturdays until the end of September. Our team of local artists will guide you through a creative activity for all ages that blends fun with learning. Be inspired by Esther Forest's
- [Hatched Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-artist-in-residence-kasia-kolikow/) - Presented as part of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024, the Hatched artist-in-residence program offers a month-long residency to one WA-based and one interstate artist in the Hatched exhibition. This opportunity provides time, space and a new context to develop their practice, embark on new projects, and be a part of PICA’s creative community. During her
- [The Purple Shall Govern](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/roberta-joy-rich-the-purple-shall-govern-2/) - Naarm (Melbourne) based artist Roberta Joy Rich takes the transformative Purple Rain Protest as the basis for her solo exhibition, The Purple Shall Govern. Juxtaposing the harsh histories of segregation in settler nation South Africa and Australia, Rich interrogates who has access to public space – then and now. From 1948 to 1994 in South
- [Follower, Leader](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/helen-johnson-follower-leader/) - rtist Helen Johnson is celebrated for her large-scale, semi-narrative paintings that explore a range of political and cultural histories and issues.
- [Sun Signals ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/joan-jonas-sun-signals/) - Joan Jonas: Sun Signals is the first exhibition in Australia devoted to the work of video and performance art pioneer, Joan Jonas. Bringing together various disciplines – ranging from performance, video and sculpture to sound, drawing and installation – the New York artist’s boundary-crossing approach has had a profound impact on generations of artists. Sun
- [Out of Bounds](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/out-of-bounds/) - For much of the past two years – from April 2020 to March 2022 – Western Australia was closed to the rest of the country, and the world. Restricted by geography, the artists in Out of Bounds turned to their immediate surroundings for inspiration. Bringing together new work across painting, drawing, ceramics, video and sculpture
- [WHEN I AM NOT THERE](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shelley-lasica-when-i-am-not-there/) - The work of Shelley Lasica reveals a sustained exploration of dance, movement and the varying contexts in which they can occur. WHEN I AM NOT THERE provides an important occasion to reflect on forty years of Lasica’s choreographic practice and is the first project of its kind in Australia. WHEN I AM NOT THERE features
- [Twin Peaks Was 30](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/decibel-new-music-ensemble-twin-peaks-was-30/) - In celebration of the 30th anniversary of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks film Fire Walk With Me (1992), WA-founded new music ensemble Decibel transforms PICA into a progressive concert environment of red velvet and haunting new music tunes in Twin Peaks Was 30. Experience a series of unfolding compositions in a unique concert environment that pays tribute to the
- [Untitled (eclipse) ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-k-burns-untitled-eclipse/) - Untitled (eclipse) by New York-based artist A.K. Burns was filmed in Nebraska, USA and engages with the passage and cycle of our nearest star, the sun. In this silent film, images of a gradually eclipsing sun are superimposed onto views of the sweeping, bleached desert landscape as we witness a total solar eclipse. Burns captured
- [Roost: Judy Wheeler Commission](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/judy-wheeler-commission-roost-elizabeth-willing/) - Food is both material and inspiration for Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist and recipient of the inaugural Judy Wheeler Commission Elizabeth Willing. Working across mediums, Willing explores the role of food in our daily lives, creating works that engage audiences through sight, smell, taste, and touch. In her new commission, Roost, Willing responds to the architecture
- [Hatched Family Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-family-day-2/) - Craft everyday household items using textiles, design patterns and recycled fabrics with Hatched artist Kasia Kolikow. This soft sculpture workshop explores slow-making through sustainable materials and craft techniques like sewing and knitting. Participants are encouraged to embrace the meditative and calming act of crafting by hand, learning practical skills and connecting with others to explore ideas about
- [Hatched Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-open-studios/) - Presented as part of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024, the Hatched artist-in-residence program offers a month-long residency to one WA-based and one interstate artist. This opportunity provides time and space for the artists to embark on new projects and be a part of PICA’s creative community. Hatched Open Studios/After Dark invites you to go behind the
- [Hatched Open Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-open-day-2/) - Join PICA for Hatched Open Day – a day of activities including a tactile tour, artist talks and a panel discussion for emerging artists, students and creatives.
- [Susan Hauri-Downing & Tarsh Bates (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/susan-hauri-downing-and-tarsh-bates/) - While undertaking their Quick Response residence at PICA, Susan Hauri-Downing and Tarsh Bates will develop and facilitate workshops to better understand the role of smell in experiences of place and how artmaking can be used to understand and guide us through environmental and cultural change, grief, loss and hope. Watch out for workshop info in
- [Hatched Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-opening-night-party-3/) - PICA is hosting a Hatched Opening Night party to welcome 22 of Australia’s most exciting art school graduates from across the nation.
- [Clay Craft and Self-Guided Mural Walking Tour](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/clay-craft-and-mural-walking-tour/) - Engage your senses these school holidays through clay crafts and a walking tour of murals by Whadjuk Noongar artist J.D. Penangke in celebration of NAIDOC Week. The 2024 theme 'Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud' celebrates the vitality and endurance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Go on a journey of discovery about Culture
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-william-gammel/) - During his residency at PICA William Gammel will develop a new solo performance, I view me. Weaving together live video editing, projection, social media filters, AI, puppetry and autobiography, I view me will interrogate how we construct and reconstruct versions of ourselves online and off.
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-leah-robyn/) - Leah Robyn’s residency at PICA will focus on the development of a new performance piece entitled The Game, a dance-theatre work that highlights the importance of women’s sport while also advocating for stronger pathways for queer and gender diverse people in sport. Combining dance theatre with the structure and dramatic effects of a soccer game,
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-talitha-maslin/) - Talitha Maslin will develop her project Wasteland, a unique West Australian work that sees 12 Western Australian artists from different regions collaborate on a performance centred on our singular environments. Her residency will particularly focus on interrogating the connection between video and movement, working with collaborators to experiment with projectors and movement.
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-nina-raper/) - Nina Raper will use their residency at PICA to create a series of video performance pieces dissecting the nuanced role of the gallery attendant. They will investigate the multifaceted nature of this role from four distinct perspectives: the institution, the public, the artist and the perspective of the individual performing the invigilation. Drawing on their
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-alice-cummins/) - Alice Cummins will draw on her extensive embodied and theoretical knowledge to collate and create scores for dancing and making. These specific scores will be used for a publication; a resource for dancers and artists interested in embodied performance making and an introduction to somatic explorations for the general public. The scores and provocations will
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-andrea-meacham/) - Tear Jerker reimagines the Cocytus River as a strange, twisted bathhouse. It's a muffled wail of grief and aloneness; of pain and suffering roiling away, under the surface, out of view, held at bay by doom-scrolling and dissociative ceiling-staring, rearing its head in private therapy rooms or ugly crying while trying to brush your teeth
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-mossy-jade/) - Central to Mossy Jade’s artistic practice is the practice of world-building. Her performance and painting practices serve as both an act of resistance and a celebration of identity, representing not only her own but also the experiences of other transgender individuals. During her residency at PICA Mossy Jade will delve into physical research and experimentation
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-callum-oreilly/) - Callum O’Reilly’s residency project will focus on the creation and building of interactive sound/musical structures. He will experiment with psychoacoustic concepts, mechanical movement of sound sources and human sound interaction, with a particular interest in the playful and experimental ways that sound and music are experienced outside of typical concert environments. Drawing from music therapy,
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-laura-heffernan/) - During her residency at PICA Laura Heffernan will develop a series of embellished craft pieces that explore our human need for connection and how this sits alongside our awareness of our own death. Arising from increasing anxiety around the inevitable future loss of her parents, Heffernan draws on the life cycle of fungi as a
- [Hatched Artist-in-Residence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-artist-in-residence-frances-malcomson/) - Presented as part of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2024, the Hatched artist-in-residence program offers a month-long residency to one WA-based and one interstate artist in the Hatched exhibition. This opportunity provides time, space and a new context to develop their practice, embark on new projects, and be a part of PICA’s creative community. Frances Malcomson
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quick-response-residency-maile-bowen/) - Maile Bowen is a multidisciplinary artist drawn to creating works that invite a sense of mindfulness and quiet. During her time at PICA she will finish developing her work produced at her residency in Scotland with An Lanntair. The work developed will explore the re-introduction of a once wiped out sea eagle in remote Scotland
- [Perth-Marseille Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lucille-martin-perth-marseille-residency/) - While on residency in Marseille, photographer Lucille Martin will develop her project Phantom Histories, which examines the genealogies and cross-cultural practices that link Marseille, the African diaspora and Australia. This project is underpinned by Martin's search for her own French ancestry, which was annulled as an adopted child growing up in Australia. Martin's residency project
- [BLEED](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bleed-biennial/) - BLEED (Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital) interrogates the relationship between the digital and the live.Developing new contemporary art practices that are both enabled by and critical of the digital public sphere, BLEED’s unique model allows artists and audiences to create and experience cutting-edge art, culture and ideas. Across diverse mediums, time zones and
- [The Art of Documentation with Jacqui Shelton](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-art-of-documentation-with-jacqui-shelton/) - PICA is inviting independent artists to participate in a free workshop with artist, filmmaker, photographer and WHEN I AM NOT THERE collaborator Jacqui Shelton. Based in Naarm (Melbourne), Shelton works with artists, musicians and community groups to document work through film, photos, books and more. In this workshop, artists will explore the art of documentation and how information is materialised through
- [Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum Online Guide and Book Launch](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/precarious-movements-choreography-and-the-museum-online-guide-and-book-launch/) - Join PICA for the launch of Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum's book and online sector resource for industry and practising artists. The book features texts from more than 20 contributors, including PICA's Director/CEO Hannah Mathews. The online resource is a freely available and focused on choreographic work in the context of the museum. It addresses how institutions can better serve and represent artists in this
- [Viewing and Artist Talk: Shelley Lasica](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/viewing-and-artist-talk-shelley-lasica/) - Hear from Shelley Lasica in conversation with PICA's Director/CEO Hannah Mathews as they discuss WHEN I AM NOT THERE. Co-commissioned by Monash University Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, WHEN I AM NOT THERE features a mise-en-scène comprising new and existing elements and includes contributions from the artist’s long-term collaborators. In this discussion, Lasica and
- [Breeze: Perth-Makassar](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ilona-mcguire-breeze-perth-makassar/) - During her residency in Makassar, Indonesia, Ilona McGuire will explore identities and connections across the seas that pre-date the colonisation of Australia. She will address the relationships between Makassan and Aboriginal cultures that are woven into ancient trading networks, tracing pathways laid by countless Ancestors who were once friends. McGuire's project will consider how we
- [Into the Fog](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sarah-nelson/) - Sarah Nelson’s Quick Response residency will support her continued development of Into the Fog, a visceral interdisciplinary theatre work integrating unconventional masks, puppetry, illusion and interactive design. Evolving every day into the hyperreal, Into the Fog is inspired by Nelson’s account of living in prolonged isolation in the UK with Long COVID and her subsequent development of FND (Functional
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/daisy-sanders/) - Daisy Sanders’ residency at PICA comes eight years after A Resting Mess began. This large-scale, immersive installation hosts an ensemble of performers that explore human and planetary fatigue and focuses on healing through its exploration of chaos, care, community and climate crisis.
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-of-critical-arts/) - Over the course of their multi-week PICA residency, the School of Critical Arts (SCA) will hold free courses and lectures in art, philosophy, culture and theory. The school aims to promote a friendly environment of enquiry, critical thinking and reflection for audiences interested in engaging with contemporary theory. Sianne Ngai’s Our Aesthetic Categories was published in 2012.
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bella-lubcke-wa/) - Bella Lubcke’s residency at PICA will explore the history of found and second-hand materials with relationships to PICA and the Perth Cultural Centre, taking into account the shapes and decorative elements of the PICA building. Her slow-making and repetitive process allows for moments of intimacy with the materials and enables her to consider their histories.
- [Quick Response Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-and-theatre/) - As part of their Quick Response residency at PICA, The And Theatre will develop their performance Dead End. The dreamlike and surreal atmosphere of this work portrays the subconscious of individuals undergoing a crisis. Every day, people are confronted with choices that can impact the value of their lives and the paths they take. This
- [BLEED: Perth-Taipei Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tom-blake-bleed-perth-taipei-residency/) - During his residency in Taipei, Tom Blake will be developing a series of new works related to ideas of opacity, repetition, fragmentation, digital disintegration and the capacity for chaos within apparent moments of stillness. Blake’s project considers our relationship to the digital from a poetic perspective. Blake’s residency will form a new commission as part
- [Cross-Hatching: Perth-New Delhi](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sid-pattni-cross-hatching-perth-new-delhi/) - Sid Pattni’s residency at Khōj in New Delhi, India, will focus on historical research into Indian miniature painting, concentrating on the impact of colonial rule on artistic patronage in India in the 18th and 19th centuries. While in New Delhi he will study primary and secondary sources including texts, archival materials and scholarly publications to
- [Hyper Local Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/david-attwood/) - During his six-month Hyper Local residency at PICA, David Attwood will develop a body of sculpture using domestic appliances. His work will be informed by the ideas of Frances Gabe, an artist and inventor who spent much of her life exploring the possibilities of a self-cleaning house, as well as the writing of Helen Hester,
- [Make Your Life Count](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sarah-aiken-make-your-life-count/) - 'One of the most moving pieces of dance ... blurs the line between performance and documentation, using an onstage camera to create, minimise, expand and extrapolate her image in real-time.' – The Saturday PaperMake Your Life Count is an ambitious dance work that shifts scale in a heartbeat and moves from the microscopic to the
- [Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio/) - PICA welcomes artists from local and international locations as part of our expanded Residencies Program. Hear from Boorloo-based artist David Attwood about his Hyper Local Residency and Makassar-based artist Azimah Fada as part of BREEZE: Perth-Makassar Residency Exchange. Learn more about their research, practice and the development of their project as part of their residency at PICA
- [Rosa Barba – Emanations](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rosa-barba/) - Emanations by Italian artist Rosa Barba is their first solo presentation in Australia and features a selection of works from the last 10 years, including 16mm and 35mm film, sculpture and installation. Developed in response to the 2023 Perth Festival theme of djinda – Noongar for cosmos or stars – the exhibition revolves around Barba’s long-standing
- [ām / ammā / mā maram](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sancintya-mohini-simpson/) - In ām / ammā / mā maram, Meanjin (Brisbane)-based artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson continues research into her matrilineal heritage, making visible the histories of indentured Indian women that remain marginal or erased in colonial archives. A first-generation Australian and descendant of labourers sent from the port of Madras (now Chennai), India, to work on sugar
- [Duilian](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wu-tsang-duilian/) - In the film installation, Duilian, Wu Tsang (USA) recreates the untold love story of the famous 19th-century Chinese poet, feminist and revolutionary Qiu Jin (秋瑾) and the female calligrapher and publisher Wu Zhiying (吳芝瑛). A revered figure in China for her martyrdom in the anti-Manchu revolution, Qiu also defied gender norms, refusing to bind her
- [Weekends at PICA](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica/) - On Saturday 10 February, our new Bunuru season is celebrated with a day-long program of performances, artist talks and more. Witness Joan Jonas' iconic Mirror Piece I & II (1969-70/2024), a live performance in PICA's Central Gallery featuring 15 local performers moving mirrors in choreographed motion to explore gender hierarchies and the power of the gaze. Discover more
- [Weekends at PICA: Sancintya Mohini Simpson](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-sancintya-mohini-simpson/) - Join us for Weekends at PICA, a morning filled with coffee, performance and conversation with PICA's Djilba/Kambarang artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson. Simpson will present An exhalation: communicating with my ancestors through DNA and an ocean re-remembered. This experimental sound performance incorporates stainless steel vessels, water, salt, the body and breath, creating space to connect with ancestors
- [Integrated Practice: In Conversation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/integrated-practice-in-conversation/) - Seventeen years ago, Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma began developing their ideas on curating, art making and arts management while working as Gallery Attendants at PICA. Sweetman and Hendrik Hansma now co-run Shimmer, an exhibition space in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and work as independent artists and curators. They return to PICA to discuss the
- [Andi Nur Azimah – Breeze: Makassar-Perth](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/andi-nur-azimah-breeze-makassar-perth/) - During her residency exchange at PICA, Azimah Fada will research the similarities in cultural musical instruments in Australia and Indonesia to examine the connection between music and storytelling. In Indonesia, the sinrilik of Sulawesi is a string instrument used for passing and conveying political messages, religious beliefs, folklore and supernatural narratives. While in Western Australia,
- [TWO](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/raghav-handa-two/) - WA Premiere In traditional Indian Kathak (pronounced “Kah-tahk”), the dancer must never touch the drums. The player commands and the dancer must follow. That’s the rule. But what happens when roles are reversed and the dancer takes control? Meet dancer Raghav Handa and maestro tabla musician Maharshi Raval – whose rule-breaking, intergenerational bromance sits at
- [PICA Open Studio / After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-open-studio-after-dark/) - Cassandra Tytler, A Skin, a Sea, an Island, a Prison (2023) Digital Video In 2024 PICA re-launched its studio program, providing opportunities for local, national and international artists to undertake periods of research and development alongside a creative community at PICA with a range of short term, long term and international exchange residencies. Join us
- [Virtual Architecture of Empathy](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/elham-eshraghian-haakansson-virtual-architecture-of-empathy/) - In her powerful virtual reality (VR) work, Virtual Architecture of Empathy, Iranian-Australian artist Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson explores how immersive mediums such as VR can foster empathy in the viewer. The work follows her family’s experiences of forced migration, inviting audiences to form an emotional connection while evoking empathy for and a deeper understanding of migration, displacement and homelessness.
- [Too Close to the Sun](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/at-the-end-of-the-land/) - World Premiere "A company known for installation theatre works that combine intense performances with stunning aesthetics." - The Huffington Post Follow an unreliable teenage narrator and her Red Monkey sidekick into the afterlife as she muses over the disappearance of her fellow Victorian-era orphans and what it’s like to be dead. This David Lynchian-esque solo
- [Mark Haslam (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mark-haslam/) - Mark Haslam's practice is a kaleidoscopic blend of technical production, direction and design, and focuses on exploring human constructs in genre-busting, media-infused contemporary performance. While undertaking a Quick Response residency at PICA, Haslam will be working on FAKE, a performance/installation/rave that explores the impact of digital communication on our perception of reality and truth in an interconnected world.
- [Muriel Hillion (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/muriel-hillion/) - During her Quick Response residency, Muriel Hillion develops A Sensory Creole Magic, a new dance experience incorporating Maloya dance and music (an improvised music-and-dance form from Réunion, usually sung in Réunion Creole and Malagasy language).
- [Ella Hetherington](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ella-hetherington/) - While undertaking her Quick Response residency, Ella Hetherington will further develop her new multidisciplinary work Golden Hour. This will include research into multi-locational performance installation and further exploration of movement-image-language systems through sensory-based generative techniques in response to sculpture, light, video, site, audio and the body.
- [Cassandra Tytler (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/cassandra-tytler/) - Whilst undertaking a Quick Response residency, Cassandra Tytler will research soil and dirt, aiming to create relational ‘soil-acts’ that incorporate the human and more-than-human to foster solidarity across species.
- [Michael Banks (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/michael-banks/) - Michael Banks is a self-taught artist whose paintings are drawn from vibrant memories of his life and Country and his old people’s stories of the Dreamtime. During his residency at PICA, Michael plans to expand his portraiture practice as well as exploring paper and drawing practices using charcoal and other materials.
- [Yinga Chen (Taipei)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yinga-chen-taipei/) - Yinga Chen is a Taiwanese artist who navigates the space between reality and virtuality in order to question the essence of selfhood. During his PICA residency, Chen will explore the concept of death in the context of a digital world. Using virtual reality, blockchain and AI technology, Chen considers the legacies left behind, both online
- [2024 Bunuru Season Program](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2024-bunuru-season-program/) - Image: Helen Johnson, The Actual, 2022, synthetic polymer paint and pencil on canvas, image courtesy of the artist PICA are excited to launch PICA's Bunuru Season in association with Perth Festival, opening on 8 February 2024. Featuring the trailblazing Joan Jonas (US); celebrated interdisciplinary artist A.K. Burns (US); and world-exhibited Naarm/Melbourne-based Helen Johnson (AUS) the
- [Quiet Hour: Low sensory gallery session](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quiet-hour-low-sensory-gallery-session/) - Every Wednesday from 10–11am, PICA presents Quiet Hour, a low-sensory session for people of all ages with sensory sensitivities and for anyone who wants to experience the galleries differently. During this session, the conditions of PICA’s building and programming will be adapted to create a quieter, low-stimulus environment, including reduced sound and lighting and other
- [Spirit of Giving: DIY Potato Print Gift Wrapping](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/spirit-of-giving-diy-potato-print-gift-wrapping/) - Make your own handmade wrapping and cards this festive season with PICA!Inspired by Elizabeth Willing's installation Roost, craft your potato printed creation at PICA's Kids Christmas Market presented by AWESOME Arts. Featuring 30 stalls from the next generation of makers, enjoy live entertainment, activities and the giant geometric igloo as part of the Rio Tinto
- [Izzy McDonald (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/izzy-mcdonald/) - During her Quick Response residency, Izzy McDonald will be working on Diving for Dust, a new play set in the final stages of the 2000s WA mining boom. This work interrogates the political and personal impacts of FIFO working arrangements and the gender roles it organically reinforces in heteronormative romantic relationships.
- [Tash Maeva (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tash-maeva/) - Tash Maeva’s project Spinifex on my side explores the stark differences between rural living and city dwelling. These differences weigh heavily on hope and opportunities, revealing ways in which the audience finds themselves experiencing displacement in areas that feel foreign to them or even familiar. Maeva relates this experience of estrangement to feeling lost in the
- [Alluvial Gold Louise Devenish, Stuart James & Erin Coates](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alluvial-goldtura/) - Alluvial Gold presents a sonic exploration of the often-forgotten worlds below the surface of our rivers in a performance installation by percussionist Louise Devenish, and composer Stuart James in collaboration with visual artist Erin Coates. Australian rivers such as the Derbarl Yerrigan (WA) were heavily dredged and ground up for mortar, roads, and building materials
- [Alluvial Gold: Collaborative Creativity Across Visual Art and Sound](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alluvial-gold-collaborative-creativity-across-visual-art-and-sound/) - Join us for a workshop exploring the collaboration between visual art and sound with Alluvial Gold Artists Dr. Louise Devenish, Dr. Stuart James, and Erin Coates. Alluvial Gold is a visceral drama to the often-forgotten worlds below the surface of the Derbarl Yerrigan and other Australian rivers. Created by percussionist Louise Devenish, composer Stuart James
- [A Puzzlement — Nathan Beard](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-puzzlement-nathan-beard/) - Boorloo (Perth) multidisciplinary artist Nathan Beard present a mischievous reflection on Thai diasporic identity and its construction in A Puzzlement. Drawing on his Australian-Thai heritage, the artist places items from his own family archive alongside broader cultural objects. Juxtaposing his mother’s Buddhist shrine statues and 90’s fast-food Thai-themed toys, Beard playfully interrogates ideas of authenticity and the
- [Alexandra Peters: Hatched Resident Artist](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alexandra-peters-hatched-resident-artist/) - Alexandra Peters, Monash University (VIC) will develop new work through research into image archives here in Perth that will then be distorted before being silkscreened onto sourced material. These outcomes would situate themselves within the field of expanded painting through the interrogation of support structures and framing devices. Hatched Studio Residency Program PICA offers a
- [#FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/feas-feminist-educators-against-sexism/) - #FEAS The Game Show disrupts hierarchies of academy-based knowledge and brings research about contemporary everyday sexisms to the public with the intention to upend and reposition challenges to everyday sexisms as urgent participatory gameplay. In a time of local and global political unrest and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the subtleties of ongoing and everyday gender inequalities are
- [Looking Up](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/looking-up/) - Looking Up is an outdoor projection series featuring works by several artists who all have a relationship with Western Australia. Featuring works from 1997 to 2023, the program presents diverse perspectives linked by their exploration of social and cultural ties to place, from sites as diverse as the Pilbara, East Kimberley, the Wheatbelt, Perth, Thailand
- [Sriwhana Spong – This Creature](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sriwhana-spong-this-creature/) - Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist Sriwhana Spong’s video This Creature takes as its starting point her unfulfilled request to handle the only known surviving manuscript of The Book of Margery Kempe (1436–38), held in the British Library. The book is an account of the early 15th-century mystic’s devotional life and her personal, highly physical, spiritual odyssey.
- [Weekends at PICA: Roberta Joy Rich & Whadjuk Noongar Elder Sandra Harben](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-roberta-joy-rich/) - PICA marks the opening of Roberta Joy Rich’s solo exhibition The Purple Shall Govern with a Welcome to Country by Whadjuk Noongar Elder Sandra Harben followed by an in-conversation with the artist. Inspired by surviving evidence of South Africa’s 1989 ‘Purple Rain’ Anti-Apartheid protest, The Purple Shall Govern explores historic connections between settler-nation Australia and
- [Mutual Love Society: A morning of poetry and conversation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mutual-love-society-an-evening-of-poetry-and-conversation/) - Join us for a morning of poetry, writing and discussion centred on themes of memory, ancestral ties, language and translation. Hear from local poets Kaya Ortiz and Dureshawar Khan as they discuss their writing practices and speak to our current exhibitions from Wu Tsang (USA/DEU), Sancintya Mohini Simpson (QLD) and Sriwhana Spong (NZ/UK). Read, write
- [Callout | The Practice of Genealogy](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/callout-the-practice-of-genealogy/) - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is pleased to offer the opportunity to attend a multi-part workshop facilitated by Alex Martinis Roe. The workshop will involve a collective exploration of local histories of feminist and queer kinship in Perth through a series of exercises engaging with the Gay and Lesbian Archives of Western Australia (GALAWA)
- [Open Studios led by Andrew Sutherland](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studios-led-by-andrew-sutherland/) - Join us for an evening of conversation and the chance to see work in development from our current resident artists. For our first open studio of the year, performance-maker and writer Andrew Sutherland will be in conversation with studio artists Ailsa Waddell and Michelle Aitken & Joe Lui. Ailsa Waddell’s latest project love ur loops; (it
- [Love in Bright Landscapes](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/love-in-bright-landscapes/) - "Los Angeles is the greatest City-on-the-Shore in the world; its only notable rival, in fact, is Rio de Janeiro … and its only rival in potential is, probably, Perth, Western Australia." - Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, 1971. ‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live’ writes Joan Didion in the
- [2021 Winter Exhibitions Opening Night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2021-winter-exhibitions-opening/) - Join us as we both welcome and celebrate the opening of PICA’s winter exhibitions Love in Bright Landscapes, curated by Annika Kristensen; I don’t see colour by Australian-Fijian artist Salote Tawale; and Leitī by Sione Monū. Love in Bright Landscapes, curated by Annika Kristensen, considers Perth and Los Angeles as comparative case studies, bringing together
- [XR Hackathon](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/xr-hackathon/) - Co-hosted by Immerse Australia and Voyant AR. Artists who attended the XR Bootcamp in July are invited to submit concept proposals for a 2-day XR Hackathon, to be held at PICA on Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 August. Selected participants will gain hands-on experience and assistance to bring their concept to life, working in small
- [Justin Balmain](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/justin-balmain/) - “The mirror creates, as it were, a hole in the wall’ a door onto the realm of the dead” - Arnaud Maillet, The Claude glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art 3-Days Without Light is a scripted short-film that has formed out of Justin Balmain’s partnership with the Museum of European
- [Curu Mai: Digital Forum](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/curu-mai-digital-forum/) - Watch Video Here. Facilited by Emele Ugavule, Rai vakaviti: Memory recount through the iTaukei worldview is a talanoa (conversation) between three leading iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian) storytellers, offering the opportunity to learn about how the uniqueness of the iTaukei worldview informs the way Fijian storytellers preserve, interpret and communicate memory through historical archives, visual art and
- [Curu Mai: Talanoa](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/curu-mai-talanoa/) - Watch Video Here. Join Fijian artists Salote Tawale and Emele Ugavule as they discuss the impacts of environmental racism on the future of arts ecologies, and their creative expressions. This conversation provides deeper insights into the exhibition I don’t see colour, currently at PICA. The starting point for I don’t see colour is a conversation
- [Works in Progress | XR:WA and studio artist talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/xr-and-studio-artist-talks/) - Presented as part of XR:WA Festival 2021 Hear from artists Dung-Chuan Wen and Janet Carter about the experience of working with developers and technicians to bring their concepts to life using AR/VR/360 video. In the spirit of hackathons and game jams, over a 2-day Hackathon, the artists were provided with equipment and technical support to
- [Sky Cave Tactile Tour](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sky-cave-tactile-tour/) - Join us at PICA for a tactile tour of Amy Perejuan-Capone’s exhibition Sky Cave. Presented in collaboration with DADAA, WA’s leading disability arts body, this event is an audio described tour for people who are blind or low vision to engage with the artworks through description and touch. ABOUT THE FACILITATORS DADAA is a leading
- [Sky Cave exhibition tour](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sky-cave-exhibition-tour/) - Join artist Amy Perejuan-Capone and PICA Curator Sarah Wall for a special exhibition tour and floor talk of Perejuan-Capone’s exhibition Sky Cave. Learn more about the artist’s inspiration for the exhibition and her family connections and experiences of hang gliding, intergenerational exchange and relationship to Western Australia. Sky Cave continues the artist’s excavations of the
- [Lisa Liebetrau](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lisa-liebetrau/) - During her residency at PICA, Lisa Liebetrau will research, examine and document ephemera on PICA from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum and PICA’s own archive through a series of photographs. Liebetrau will consider the historical archive and heritage of the building and its original purpose as place of
- [Tomoko Yamada](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tomoko-yamada/) - Common language of thread: “Flow Movement…” is a performative and experimental exploration into the conceptual value of Tomoko Yamada’s practice. Yamada’s process focuses on linear mapping and diagramming with fluorescent-coloured threads to create installations emphasising the constantly transforming connections between art, the environment and daily life, influenced by both the past and future, with all
- [Carrion: Episode I](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/carrion/) - Justin Shoulder emerges as Carrion, a mythical chimeric creature, in a scintillating performance that compels us to consider post-human embodiment in our state of planetary disarray. “Never quite human, only ever Frankenstein: a ghost of the west, a virus, a trickster, or a prehistoric bird.” As a continuation of Shoulder’s repertoire of bestiary, this hybrid
- [Electronic Concerto](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/electronic-concerto/) - The ‘concerto’ is one of the most familiar of classical music forms – a virtuosic solo performer in front of the orchestra. Decibel present a series of newly commissioned works composed for ensemble and electronic soloist, reworking the concept to put the spotlight on electronic instruments, with the ensemble taking on the role of the
- [Bonnie Lane (USA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bonnie-lane/) - Through an act of performative autobiography, Australian-born, New York based Bonnie Lane exposes private experiences that subvert prescribed gender roles. In a practice that spans video, photography, installation, sculpture, sound, collage, short stories; and virtual, IRL, and secret performance, she reveals the uncertainty of sexual identity in the digital age. During her residency Bonnie will
- [Cuttin' It](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/cuttin-it/) - In this workshop you will learn the art of paper cutting with artist Tusif Ahmad. Create a two dimensional finely cut image inspired by our current exhibition I Don’t Want to Be There When It Happens, Islamic patterns, Asian art or flora and fauna. Suitable for all levels of experience, you will leave with abilities
- [The Midnight March](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-midnight-march-2/) - Responding to group exhibition I don't want to be there when it happens, The Midnight March is a performance that explores the migration of the 12 million people who were displaced during the India-Pakistan partition. Indian-born, Perth-based Choreographer Jay Emmanuel will create The Midnight March with performers from Indian and Pakistani communities to collectively march into the
- [Curatorial Tour with Eugenio Viola on the occasion of Human Rights Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/curatorial-tour-with-eugenio-viola/) - Join PICA Senior Curator, Eugenio Viola, as he discusses his Australian curatorial debut I don't want to be there when it happens on Human Rights Day. This day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Emerging from the prevailing tensions and
- [SUMMER NIGHTS](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/summer-nights/) - PRESENTED BY THE BLUE ROOM THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH PICA AS PART OF FRINGE WORLD Summer Nights is the hand-crafted program of theatre, dance and performance at FRINGE WORLD 2016, curated and presented by The Blue Room Theatre in association with PICA. This year’s program takes you on a trip around the world and inspires
- [Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg: The Secret Garden](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/nathalie-djurberg-and-hans-berg-the-secret-garden/) - Surreal and ultra-sensory The Secret Garden by Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg opens up a netherworld of strange delights and encounters. In their immersive landscapes, sculpture, light, sound and film mix to dazzling effect as gallery visitors are thrust into the mysterious worlds of feverish dreams, psychedelic sunsets and expanding universes. An exciting
- [School Holiday Workshops: Toys for Tomorrow - Sculpture-making Workshops](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-holiday-workshops-toys-for-tomorrow-sculpture-making-workshops/) - Taking inspiration from PICA’s Hatched: National Graduate Show 2016 and her own visual art practice, join Australian artist Olga Cironis to make a precious creature that represents “you”. Techniques such as stitching, tying, weaving and wrapping will be used to up-cycle everyday objects of choice. Olga is an established contemporary artist who has exhibited internationally. She
- [Revelation Film Festival](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/revelation-film-festival/) - PICA is partnering with the Revelation Film Festival to present Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead (2012). In 2005 multimedia-artist Mike Kelley was commissioned by Artangel to produce a site-specific artwork. His response was to create a replica of his childhood home in the Detroit suburb of Westland, the façade of which was driven from the Museum
- [A Nocturnal Affair](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-nocturnal-affair/) - Explore PICA’s Radical Ecologies exhibition after dark for a night for sensory delight and epic encounters. Internationally acclaimed bio-artist Stelarc will be performing his new work Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body live in the gallery until 7pm. This augmented robotic performance sees the artist seeing with the “eyes” of someone in London and
- [Radical Ecologies: Education Tours](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/radical-ecologies-education-tours/) - Want to go deeper with Radical Ecologies? PICA offers interactive tours for school and community groups, designed to facilitate engagement with our exhibitions. Tours are crafted to be accessible to diverse audiences and are tailored to levels of education and prior knowledge. Education Links include: Humanities and Social Sciences; Human Biology; Science and BIology; The Arts;
- [The Curtain Breathed Deeply](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-curtain-breathed-deeply/) - The Curtain Breathed Deeply presents an immersive collection of video and sculptural work by artist Justene Williams. This, Williams largest and most ambitious undertaking to date sees the artist use found objects and waste materials to create dazzling theatrical environments, seducing visitors through a variety of hypnotizing sets and 'performative' video installations. Williams takes inspiration from
- [IN CONTEXT | JUSTENE WILLIAMS & GORDON BENNETT](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/in-context-justene-williams-gordon-bennett/) - Justene Williams Talk | 2pm, Main Gallery Sydney-based artist Justene Williams joins Artspace Deputy Director Michelle Newton as they discuss her 20 year practice, and how personal experience and cultural crazes underlie The Curtain Breathed Deeply. This immersive collection of work transforms the PICA ground floor galleries into a determinedly chaotic and interrelated sequence of
- [Professional Learning for Artists and Educators | Animating Fashion](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/professional-learning-for-artists-and-educators-the-curtain-breathed-deeply/) - Artist and designer Emma Buswell will facilitate this workshop inspired by Justene William’s use of digital collage in her exhibition The Curtain Breathed Deeply. Looking at haute couture fashion labels such as Gucci, the focus will be on how technology has changed the way we engage with art and fashion. In this workshop Emma will facilitate
- [CURATOR FORUM | What To Do When Things Get Rough](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/justene-williams-curator-forum/) - Join AGWA Curator of Contemporary Design and International Art, Robert Cook, Curator of the Cruther’s Collection of Women’s Art at the University of Western Australia, Gemma Weston, and PICA Acting Curator Andrew Varano as they each provide their own readings of Justene William’s visually expansive and referentially rich exhibition The Curtain Breathed Deeply. Working against the idea
- [When Happiness Ruled](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/when-happiness-ruled/) - Pip & Pop is obsessed with representations of paradise, illusions and wish-fulfilment described in folktales, mythologies and cinema. Her wonderfully immersive and colour-saturated dreamscapes draw wide inspiration from the edible fantasy world of Cockaigne, platform video games and Japanese stories of spirits residing within objects and nature. This is a long-awaited hometown solo exhibition for Pip
- [EXHIBITION OPENING | WHEN HAPPINESS RULED BY PIP & POP](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/exhibition-opening-when-happiness-ruled-by-pip-pop/) - Join us for an eye-poppingly colourful evening as we celebrate the opening of When Happiness Ruled on Friday the 11th November. The much anticipated new solo exhibition by Perth artist Pip & Pop takes over the Central Gallery with an abundant large-scale installation of utopian dreams and candy-coloured landscapes. Follow the rainbow and good times
- [School Workshop | Irresistible Sculpted Environments](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-workshop-irresistible-sculpted-environments-everyday-materials/) - Using playful everyday materials students will create a small-scale model inspired by When Happiness Ruled by Pip & Pop. Learning new skills in construction, design and storytelling, students will work with Pip & Pop assistant, artist and flower enthusiast Alina Tang to create brightly coloured ephemeral sculptures. This workshop will develop capabilities in: sculpture and
- [Weekend Workshop | 3D & 2D Immersive Dreamscapes](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekend-workshop-3d-2d-immersive-dreamscapes/) - Embrace your imagination with Pip & Pop Assistant, artist and flower enthusiast Alina Tang in these children's and adult's workshops inspired by Pip & Pop’s When Happiness Ruled. Children and adults will learn to create a small-scale Pip & Pop inspired paradise dreamscape, brimming with colour, objects and immersive scenes. The 3D dreamscapes can then
- [Open Studio Night | December](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-december/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents. This particular group of Australian and international artists explore transcultural contexts, apophenia and memories in their multi-disciplinary practices. Join us as we are taken inside the studios of Kate Moss & Magni Borgehed (WA/SWE), Luisa
- [Gillian Cosgriff is Whelmed](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/gillian-cosgriff-is-whelmed/) - WEST AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Musical comedy cabaret "I know you can be overwhelmed and I know you can be underwhelmed but can you ever just be whelmed?" Yes. You can.* It's a real word - an old one that's faded from popular vernacular. As someone who relies on solid facts to feel stable in an ever-changing
- [Summer Nights](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/summer-nights-2/) - Summer Nights is the hand-crafted program of theatre and dance at FRINGE WORLD 2015, curated and presented by The Blue Room Theatre in association with PICA. This year’s program tells stories that are political and personal, counter cultural or culturally counterproductive, adventurous in form, and diverse in practice, content, style and design. We’ve invited exceptional
- [Pale Face Cold Blood](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pale-face-cold-blood/) - WEST AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Iranian translator's boxing workout Inspired by real events, Pale Face Cold Blood is a piece of physical theatre set in a boxing ring. Zara, an Iranian translator, witnessed something terrible while she was working in a detention centre on Manus Island. She is at war with herself, struggling to deal with her
- [CONCRETE: heartbeat](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/concrete-heartbeat/) - WEST AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 24 hours, 8 stories, 1 city. CONCRETE:heartbeat is the critically acclaimed production from kdmindustries, a collective of artists with a mind to further exploring the contemporary language of theatrical performance. A lone storyteller stands onstage in front of an enveloping screen and recounts 24 hours in the life of a major city
- [FAG/STAG](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/fagstag/) - WORLD PREMIERE Best friends, bad decisions Best mates turn twenty eight. Time to get a life, right? For Jimmy it's time to give up porn, crusty undies, microwave meals and having a tear soaked pillow. For Corgan it's time to quit with all the fake phone numbers, lewd hypocrisy and accidental unprotected. A bad case
- [Those Who Fall In Love Like Anchors Dropped Upon The Ocean Floor](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/those-who-fall-in-love-like-anchors-dropped-upon-the-ocean-floor/) - FRINGE WORLD PREMIERE Straight from a sold-out season at The Blue Room Theatre this story, a "sparkling exploration of love" (**** The West Australian), travels the globe. Written by celebrated Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer, directed by award-winning Adam Mitchell, starring Jo Morris, Renée Newman-Storen and Logie Award nominee Ben Mortley.
- [Exhibition Openings - Tracey Moffatt & An Internal Difficulty](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/exhibition-openings-tracey-moffatt-internal-difficulty/) - Please join us as we celebrate the openings of Tracey Moffatt's KALEIDOSCOPE and An Internal Difficulty, curated by Andrew Nicholls. Tracey Moffatt is arguably Australia’s best known and most influential contemporary artist. She has been based in New York since 1997 and recently returned to live in Sydney. KALEIDOSCOPE is Tracey Moffatt’s first major solo exhibition in
- [Tracey Moffatt](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tracey-moffatt/) - Tracey Moffatt is arguably Australia’s best known and most influential contemporary artist. She has been based in New York since 1997 and recently returned to live in Sydney. Kaleidoscope is Tracey Moffatt’s first major solo exhibition in Perth since 2004. It will be the West Australian premiere of her candid new video work, Art Calls, in which
- [An Internal Difficulty](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/an-internal-difficulty/) - Curated by Andrew Nicholls. An Internal Difficulty brings together seven of Western Australia’s most innovative artists to reconsider the figure of Sigmund Freud in relation to his domestic context. In 2013 the artists undertook a residency at the Freud Museum London, the townhouse in which Freud and his family settled after fleeing the Nazi occupation of
- [PICAnauts Swim For Art](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/picanauts/) - The PICAnauts undertook their maiden voyage to Rotto in 2014. Being the only group representing an art organisation, this original and fearless quartet of art professionals swam in the name of art and raised over $5000 for West Australian artists. With a massive facebook following, this surprise entry shocked the nation with their fast and
- [From The Rubble](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/from-the-rubble/) - Presented by Perth Theatre Company in association with PICA WORLD PREMIERE PAPER. PROJECTION. PEOPLE. Exploding the boundaries of theatre, From the Rubble is a unique multi-artform piece inspired by Perth’s own Walkley Award winning journalist Sophie McNeill. Director Melissa Cantwell uses the evocative images embedded in Sophie’s work to offer a glimpse into the lives
- [VIP DRINKS AFTER THE SHOW - FROM THE RUBBLE](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/vip-drinks-after-the-show-from-the-rubble/) - Exploding the boundaries of theatre, From the Rubble is a unique multi-artform piece inspired by the work of one of Australia’s most cherished writers and journalists, Walkley Award winner Sophie McNeill. Purchase your tickets to the show and enjoy a rare opportunity to meet the creators of this extraordinary piece - Director, Melissa Cantwell; Visual
- [The Book of Life](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-book-of-life/) - Over a 2-week period, Renegade Productions will undertake a second stage development for the new work, The Book of Life, written and directed by one of Perth’s promising young performance makers, Joe Lui. Exploring the form of contemporary post-dramatic theatre, The Book of Life is a collage of ‘The Hero’s Journey’, lecture theatre, lush visual
- [OPEN STUDIO NIGHT March 2015](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-march-2014/) - OPEN STUDIO NIGHT is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents. This particular group of Australian and international artists’ practices traverse experimental performance, sound art, contemporary music and photography. Join us as we are taken inside the studios of Rachael Dease (WA), Sonal Kantaria (UK), and
- [Hatched National Graduate Show Interactive Education Tours](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-national-graduate-show-interactive-education-tours/) - Spark_Lab offers students and teachers the opportunity to engage in FREE interactive education tours of the popular annual exhibition Hatched: National Graduate Show 2015. Examining a selection of art works, students will explore the variety of mediums used by the 34 top graduating artists from 22 tertiary institutions across Australia. As well as consider the
- [Gentle Steps With an Open Mouth](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/gentle-steps-with-an-open-mouth/) - Melbourne-based sound improviser and experimental vocalist, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, presents a program of new works including a participatory piece for a large vocal group. As a vocalist working with extended techniques, Alice builds intimate exchanges with her audience. She creates an array of timbres and textures by controlling tension in her throat and alternating the
- [WA Day Come out and Play Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wa-day-come-out-and-play-workshop/) - As a part of the WA Day celebrations in the Perth Cultural Centre, PICA’s doors will once again be open for the only Monday of the year. Families and the general public are welcome to drop-in between 10am to 4pm to join Hatched artist Leah Allen-Ankins in a free and fun art workshop. Taking notes
- [Epilogues After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/epilogues-after-dark/) - To celebrate the opening of PICA Salon: Epic Narratives the galleries are staying open late! With a cash bar and an ethereal soundtrack composed by Rachael Dease, enjoy an evening wander through the exhibition of over 100 works by 20 artists and create your own adventure or join an informative tour. 7-8pm The Grand Tour:
- [Image & Word: Story Telling Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/image-word-story-telling-workshop/) - Artist Anna Dunnill will lead a series of workshops exploring a variety of creative outcomes drawing from personal narratives. Participants will work across disciplines, exploring visual and written outcomes from creative writing, sculpture, textiles and collage. Taking notes from the many forms of narrative representation on show in PICA Salon: Epic Narratives, this workshop asks
- [Gesture - The Sound Collectors](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/gesture-the-sound-collectors/) - Presented by Tura New Music and PICA as part of Tura New Music's 2015 Scale Variable Series. Gesture is a collection of works for two percussionists that examine physicality and gesture in the context of contemporary percussion music. A diverse and surprising array of sounds ranging from drums and gongs to AM radios and sheets
- [Exhibition Openings - Consuelo Cavaniglia & Derek Kreckler](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/exhibition-openings-consuelo-cavaniglia-derek-kreckler/) - Please join us as we celebrate the openings of two major solo exhibitions, Consuelo Cavaniglia: in the distance a pool of light was not what it seemed and Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process. Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process, curated by Hannah Mathews, is the first survey exhibition of one of Australia’s most rigorous conceptual artists.
- [From Afar on a Hill](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/from-afar-on-a-hill-2015/) - WORLD PREMIERE From Afar On A Hill is a participatory performance work exploring global issues of citizenship, immigration, privilege and collective responsibility. With a refugee crisis currently sweeping Europe and the issue of asylum seekers dividing Australians for so many years, this couldn't be more timely. Upon entering the performance space, audience members are immersed in
- [Dead Ringer Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/dead-ringer-opening-night-party/) - Join us for a special spooky opening night as we celebrate the opening of Dead Ringer on Friday the 13th of November. Featuring work by Australian and international artists, Dead Ringer seeks to draw forth the doppelgangers, ghosts and bad copies that haunt us. The exhibition unites an original group of artists whose works negotiate the extremes
- [Ghost Focus: Double Exposures and Apparitions in Nineteenth-Century Photography](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ghost-focus-double-exposures-and-apparitions-in-nineteenth-century-photography/) - Join Dr Emily Eastgate Brink, Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia and specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century art for a fascinating lecture about spirit photography in Victorian times. In the 1860s William Mumler first photographed a ghost. An early pioneer of the innovative double-exposure technique, Mumler claimed to have captured both a living
- [Rachel Arianne Ogle](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rachel-arianne-ogle/) - This creative development is part of a STRUT Seed Residency for the research and development of an installation based solo dance work entitled I Have Loved The Stars Too Fondly To Be Fearful Of The Night, by Perth choreographer Rachel Arianne Ogle, in collaboration with esteemed design team Benjamin Cisterne (visual design) and Luke Smiles
- [Spooks & Spectres: Tales from Parallel Worlds](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/spooks-spectres-tales-from-parallel-worlds/) - Writer, performer and story-teller extraordinaire Finn O’Branagáin leads visitors on a journey through the exhibition, drawing on its unsettling tales of ghosts, doppelgängers, changelings and missing twins. Join Finn as she uses symbols and signs gleaned from the exhibition, and the very building it occupies, to call up spirits of stories from another time and
- [SWAMP JUICE](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/swamp-juice/) - WELCOME TO A SWAMP LIKE NO OTHER! Meet bickering snails, neurotic snakes and a restless baby bird... Following sell-out seasons in Edinburgh, Berlin and London, puppeteer Jeff Achtem presents this shadow puppet adventure about life in a swamp. A live cartoon adventure with an eye-popping 3D finale, Swamp Juice is an unforgettable playful and immersive
- [BRUCE](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bruce/) - THE BRUCE IS BACK! Straight from a completely sold-out season here at The Blue Room Theatre, Bruce returns for two-nights only. Hop on board with creators Tim Watts & Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd and get ready to blast off for an epic puppet adventure that bends time and will melt your heart.
- [Summer Nights 2014](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/summer-nights-2014/) - A hand crafted program of premium theatre, performance and dance, curated by The Blue Room Theatre and in association with PICA as a part of FRINGE WORLD 2014. Enjoy twelve works from around Australia and the world, featuring hot companies making their Western Australian debut, brand new work from returning favourites, and encore seasons from
- [RUN GIRL RUN](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/run-girl-run/) - GIRL, YOU BETTER WORK. After a sell-out season at the 2013 Melbourne Fringe Festival, multi-award winning Melbourne ensemble the Grit Theatre bring their unique brand of performance to Perth for the very first time. Performed entirely on treadmills, the Grit Theatre ensemble is in constant motion for this sweaty hour of bold, brash and sassy
- [SQUIDBOY](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/squidboy-2014/) - WINNER: BEST PERFORMANCE, AUCKLAND FRINGE 2013 Trygve Wakenshaw delights in this critically acclaimed physical comedy about an imaginary friend who makes imaginary friends who make imaginary enemies who make imaginary armies out of imaginary Scotsmen. Cult fringe favourite SQUIDBOY comes to Perth straight from a sold-out season at Edinburgh Fringe, where it was nominated for
- [Exhibition Openings - William Kentridge & Richard Bell](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/exhibition-openings-william-kentridge-richard-bell/) - Please join us as we celebrate the openings of William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time and Richard Bell's Embassy. A collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison, The Refusal of Time epitomises William Kentridge's intriguing, multi-disciplinary practice. An all-encompassing installation of five videos which combine the magic of theatre, drawing and music with
- [Inside the Embassy](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/inside-the-embassy/) - Richard Bell's Soapbox Richard Bell will activate the Tent Embassy with his fervent musings and proposals for alternative political realities in Australia. A call to arms about art, land rights and human rights, Bell will give his take on the state of the nation in 2014.
- [Richard Bell](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/embassy/) - For over twenty years artist and provocateur Richard Bell, has challenged the state of art and politics in Australia. Embassy is Richard Bell's first solo exhibition in Western Australia and will feature a recreation of the original Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the protest camp set up on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra. This significant solo exhibition
- [William Kentridge](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/william-kentridge/) - Central Galleries Music and Soundscape Philip Miller Video Editing Catherine Meyburgh Dramaturg Peter Galison William Kentridge's five-channel video and sculptural installation The Refusal of Time (2012) is a meditation on the commingled histories of colonialism and industry across time and territory. Epitomising Kentridge's intriguing multi-sensory practice, this new work, originally commissioned fordOCUMENTA (13), and acquired by the Art Gallery of
- [Practicing Resistance Symposium](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/practicing-resistance/) - Presented in partnership with Curtin University's School of Design and Art (SoDA). Coinciding with Richard Bell's Embassy and William Kentridge's The Refusal of Time, this symposium explores the unique roles that artists can play as activists, in both analysing and re-routing the ongoing exercise of colonial power in the contemporary world. Speakers will discuss their
- [Visiting Curator Lecture: Raimundas Malasauskas](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/visiting-curator-lecture-raimundas-malasauskas/) - Cloud engineering from the perspective of plankton Lithuanian, freelance curator, Raimundas Malašauskas is a storyteller stirring up meaning and interconnectedness from a hypnotic field of possibilities. In this presentation he will recount several stories all at once: how metaphors, artworks and optical technologies engage to look like a hologram that performs itself on stage; how
- [Open Studio Night April 2014](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-april-2014/) - Join Dr. Ric Spencer as he leads a discussion with our four artists in residence David Carson & Paul Houghton (DESERTsnowball Project), Didot Klasta, Danielle Freakley and Nathan Beard. One of PICA's much-loved events, this is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the worlds of these talented local artists. Ric, the curator of the
- [Confluence - The Sound Collectors](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/confluence/) - Presented by PICA in association with Tura New Music as part of the 2014 Scale Variable Series. The Sound Collectors are comprised of Louise Devenish and Leah Scholes, two talented percussionists and and innovators in Australian new music. Taking up residency at PICA in July, they will explore the very question of what percussion is.
- [Opening Night Party - What I See When I Look At Sound](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/opening-night-party-what-i-see-when-i-look-at-sound/) - Join us as we celebrate the opening night of What I See When I Look at Sound, an exhibition of sound launching new pieces by five outstanding Australian artists: Lyndon Blue, Lauren Brown, Matthew Gingold, Cat Hope and Kynan Tan. This exhibition unites radically different manifestations and improvisations on the theme of seeing and shaping
- [What I See When I Look At Sound](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/what-i-see-when-i-look-at-sound/) - What I See When I Look at Sound is an exhibition of sound that launches new pieces by five outstanding Australian artists. Each artist has designed a work for extended play within PICA's galleries, speculating on what it means to visualise and encounter sound art today. The works are each systems unto themselves, often manipulating the
- [Women of Letters](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/women-of-letters/) - Presented by Perth Theatre Company in association with PICA. 'In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.' In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire host a literary evening of Women of Letters. A celebration of
- [PICA Salon Vernissage 2014](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-salon-vernissage-2014/) - The PICA Salon Vernissage has gained a reputation for being one of Perth's most sophisticated events and now returns for its fifth year! Reserved for PICA's ART1000 and ART5000 Donors and the exhibiting artists, the opening night of the PICA Salon is a collector's dream. It features the auction of new artworks by the highly
- [PICA Salon 2014](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-salon-2014/) - Curated by Nadia Johnston. The PICA Salon takes the traditional salon concept and twists it into an exquisitely designed microcosm of artworks by today's most renowned contemporary artists. This annual exhibition celebrates the stellar history of Perthʼs leading contemporary arts organisation by showcasing artworks for sale by a selection of those who have exhibited at
- [perspectives [temporal]](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/perspectives-temporal/) - This new, live audio-visual work will be premiered by West Australian trailblazer Kynan Tan in a one-night only concert. Two years in the making, perspectives [temporal] is a unique occasion to see and hear how Kynan Tan masterfully intertwines sound and image. Hijacking PICA's vast main gallery, this double projection, multi-speaker synaesthetic composition deliberately confuses
- [Magnolia's Science Talk Show](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/magnolias-science-talk-show/) - Presented by Magnolia's & PICA in association with National Science Week. Originally a late night fixture in a Perth backyard shed, Magnolia's joins forces with PICA and National Science Week to present a special presentation exploring the intersection of science, sound and art. Inspired by talk shows such as David Letterman and quiz shows such
- [Falling Through Clouds](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/falling-through-clouds/) - Presented by The Last Great Hunt and PICA. From the award-winning creators of international hits The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer and It's Dark Outside, comes a dark tale of reaching for the impossible. Mary has a wild imagination. By day she raises birds from extinction but at night she dreams of flight.
- [Jackson Eaton](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jackson-eaton/) - Jackson Eaton researches the shared space between social media, everyday existence and the self-image. During his studio residency, he plans to investigate the formal and social relations of a gathering that has descended into a YouTube party. Through found video, gestural performances and audience participation, Jackson will question the arbitrary nature of collective linkages and
- [Special Weekend Workshops](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/special-weekend-workshops/) - Collaborative Wall Painting 10am - 5pm Ages 13 and older - Saturday 22 November Maximum 12 participants $50 per participant Always wanted to have your art on the walls at PICA? Bring along your favourite painting overalls and be a part of the permanent transformation of our Education Studio! Join AC4CA artist and Curtin University
- [Double Bill - Beast #3 & No-One will tell us...](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/beast-3-no-one-will-tell-us/) - Beast #3 Jo Pollitt & Paea Leach (AUS) World Premiere Beast #3 is the third rendering of an original score created in 2012 as a 'side by side song cycle of movement'. It is driven by a particular physicality shared by Pollitt and Leach emboldened by a perpetual duet of long distance correspondence. The original
- [Move Me Improvisation Festival Closing Party & STRUT Program Launch 2015](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/festival-closing-party-strut-program-launch-2015/) - It's the last dance folks, this time with a glass in your hand and a grin on your chops, as we wave goodbye to it all... Yes it's goodbye to all things 2014 but a massive HELLO to the incredible STRUT Up and Dance program for 2015! From 9:30 onwards, join us at PICA to
- [Improvisation Forum](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/improvisation-forum/) - If you were lucky, you would have watched them strutting their improv stuff in their own shows across the festival. Now watch them battle their wits to help you understand what the hell it was all about! Four festival favourites - Andrew Morrish, Jo Pollitt, Michael Schumacher and Ros Warby sit down to debate the
- [Sonic iMpro Concert](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sonic-impro-concert/) - Presented by STRUT Dance in association with MoveMe, TURA New Music and PICA A melding of styles and clashing of colours will create unique sonic moments on the last night of the festival. Close your eyes and open your ears for this one, as improvising musicians from across the festival come together for a special
- [The Mapping Project](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/serena-chalker-emma-fishwick/) - The Mapping Project is interested in place. How do people remember and experience place? Why do people leave or return to a place? The Mapping Project is a creative investigation designed to engage with new audiences, new environments and varying situations. Dancers and Choreographers Emma Fishwick and Serena Chalker are interested in exploring how relationships
- [Summer Nights 2013](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/summer-nights-2013/) - 10 Seasons of local, national and international theatre, comedy and dance works presented and curated in partnership with the Blue Room Theatre. Summer Nights is the hand-crafted performance program of FRINGE WORLD 2013: a thrilling concoction of new and celebrated work, with up to four back-to-back shows per night at PICA over three weeks. Minnie
- [Michele Theunissen](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/michele-theunissen/) - you are the robber, come and shake hands is an evocative three screen projection by established WA artist Michele Theunissen. A band of brightly-clad travellers journey along the edge of rugged and brittle mountains in South Africa, impelled forward by music that carries their stories. The film's title is taken from one of the songs,
- [Ross Manning](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ross-manning/) - Volumes will see Brisbane-based artist Ross Manning fill the PICA Central Galleries with a series of breathtaking kinetic light installations. Ross Manning (QLD) employs a fusion of low-fi, domestic and high-end technologies to create dazzling phenomenological assemblages. In response to the dramatic architecture of PICA's central atrium the artist will install his largest-scale kinetic work
- [Jacqueline Ball - Making Caves](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jacqueline-ball-making-caves/) - Jacqueline Ball's work explores the ways in which tactility and form can be expressed through photography. Ball casts ambiguous sculptures from gritty, organic materials and uses light and camera lenses as mediators between the sculpture and final photographs. Attracted to the ways in which light, depth of field, texture and arrangement can be manipulated, Ball's
- [Laura Moore](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/laura-moore/) - During her residency at PICA, Laura Moore will further develop her work in photographic portraits, having progressed from portraits of schoolchildren on the verge of change to time-lapse videos inspired by Edward Hopper. In Window, a woman seated next to an upstairs window remains motionless as sunlight dawns and hours pass. Making reference to the
- [A Digital Now](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-digital-now/) - Responding to the digital climate of today, Michele Willson will present an illustrated lecture expanding upon the concerns of a number of Hatched works which explore the effect of the internet and the digital reign of technology. Following PICA's recent guest speaker series, this lecture will examine the intersection of artwork, culture and theory. Michele
- [Opal Vapour](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/opal-vapour/) - Against a shimmering terrain of shadow and sand a contemporary ritual, inspired by ancient Java, is danced and sung. Created across two countries - Australia and Indonesia - and offering powerful physical and internal states while balancing moral and spiritual aesthetics, Opal Vapour draws on ritual elements of Javanese Wayang Kulit shadow puppetry. Invoking classical
- [HERE&NOW13 Residencies](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/herenow13-residencies/) - In preparation for the HERE&NOW13 exhibition, to be presented as a part of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery's annual exhibition of emerging Western Australian Artists, artists Katrina Barber and Julian Poon will take up residence in the PICA studios from the 24th June to 18th August. The HERE&NOW13 exhibition will for the first time bring
- [WA Composers Project Residency](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wa-composers-project-residency/) - Decibel are in residence at PICA with The Western Australian Composers Project, concluding with two concerts featuring all Western Australian world music premieres from a diverse range of composers such as Stuart James, Christopher Tonkin, Rachael Dease, Sam Gillies, Johannes Luebbers, Henry Anderson, Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery. Decibel works with music that combines electronic
- [WA Composers Project Concerts](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wa-composers-project-concerts/) - As a part of their residency at PICA with The Western Australian Composers Project Decibel present two concluding concerts. The concerts will feature all Western Australian world music premieres from a diverse range of composers such as Stuart James, Christopher Tonkin, Rachael Dease, Sam Gillies, Johannes Luebbers, Henry Anderson, Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery. Decibel
- [Minnie and Mona Play Dead](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/minnie-and-mona-play-dead/) - West Australia's most exciting young theatre makers present Minnie & Mona Play Dead, an award-winning fusion of biography and black comedy. Minnie and Mona are best friends. Minnie wants to play cheeky unicorns, but Mona wants to be dead. Real dead. Forever. The Duck House, in collaboration with writer Jeffrey Jay Fowler and actor Arielle
- [Proximity Symposium](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/proximity-symposium/) - A key-note and two panel sessions each punctuated by a different provocation. Cosy up to a group of artists, curators and thinkers as they discuss one-on-one. KEY NOTE | The fantastic fear of intimacy Risk, trust, magic and fun. What are the stakes and what are the pay-offs in one-on-one? SESSION 1 | Why one-on-one?
- [Crash Course](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/crash-course/) - Picking up the pieces after a life-changing event is never easy. Here at Crash Course you are in good hands. With over twenty-five years teaching experience, our instructors gently guide you through the process of rebuilding. Life is a crash course. Places are limited. Crash Course is a participatory theatre experience that takes the form
- [Ahilan Ratnamohan: SDS1 2013](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ahilan-ratnamohan-2013/) - Presented for the first time in 2013, SDS1 returns to PICA in 2015 as part of a national Mobile States tour. For more information head to the 2015 SDS1 page. SDS1 is a new solo dance work by Sydney/Antwerp-based artist Ahilan Ratnamohan exploring the game of football, or soccer, as an art form. A former
- [Inflatable Jumping Basket](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/inflatable-jumping-basket/) - The Giant Inflatable Jumping Basket is an interactive installation based on a hand-woven basket by Martu artist Thelma Judson, one of the exhibiting artists in string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art, currently showing at PICA. Kids and adults alike can jump to their heart's content inside this bouncy, playful structure, which also connects to
- [Siren Opening](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/siren-opening/) - Join artist Thea Costantino (WA) at the premiere of this unique sound installation, which has been developed through collaborations with composer Tim Cunniffe (WA) and a local choir, the Churchlands Choral Society. Nightly, when darkness falls, the aural landscape of the Perth Cultural Centre will be temporarily transformed. The PICA tower will glow with a
- [Open Studio Night August 2012](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-august-2012/) - OPEN STUDIO NIGHT is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents. Independent curator Katie Lenanton led a series of conversations with the artists in residence in their spaces, opening up the studios of David Egan, Ben Kovacsy and Jessie Mitchell to the public. This particular group
- [First Amongst Equals (Part II)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/first-amongst-equals-part-ii/) - First Amongst Equals (Part II) presents a a stellar line-up of Australian and international artists who share an interest in film, kinetics, colour, sound and time. With practices spanning from 1936 to 2012 this exhibition is a focused selection of artworks that are boldly distinct yet intrinsically related. Exhibiting for the first time in Australia,
- [One Night Echo](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/one-night-echo/) - One Night Echo is a contemporary theatre production presented by independent, award-winning West Australian theatre company, The Duck House. Party. 3am. Those who remain look for love in the dirt. The Birthday Boy is in a world of his own, absorbed by his own brilliance. The Star laughs at The Nobody who stumbles alone in
- [Fractal Shale](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/fractal-shale/) - A full-colour spectrum of synchronised light and sound. Live, dual projection, audio-visual performances from the Australian master of combining sound and image, Robin Fox, and his mentee, emerging artist Kynan Tan. Robin Fox presents new works for synchronators - articulating the movement and dynamism of his computer audio wizardry in full colour across multiple screens.
- [Lucy Kumara Moore](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lucy-kumara-moore/) - During her PICA residency Lucy will research and make a film which uses the salt lakes on Rottnest Island and at Lake Macleod, near Canarvon as a starting point. She is interested in the convergence of disparate concerns and experiential states that might be inferred from these particular environments - economic and industrial concerns in
- [Film Screenings](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/film-screenings/) - Artists-in-Residence Studio Film Screening A series of four film screenings organised by Lucy Moore and Liang Luscombe, running on consecutive Sundays in March and April, at 3.30pm in Studio Two Programme One: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957) Guest-curated by Gemma Ward 13 March at 3.30pm in Studio Two at PICA An aged professor - introverted
- [Open Studio Night March 2011](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-march-2011/) - Join PICA's current artists in residence, Chelsea Hopper, Liang Luscombe and Lucy Moore on a tour through their studios at 6pm with PICA curator, Leigh Robb. Clock Tower Studio Chelsea Hopper For the last two years or so, Chelsea Hopper has wanted to realise a project on failure. Failure is something fundamental not only to
- [A Voice from the Dark Space](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-voice-from-the-dark-space/) - Decibel is Western Australia's new music group presenting acoustic and electronic instrumental concert formats, incorporating installation and improvisation. A Voice from the Dark Space is the first concert in a series of 3 performances in PICA's Main Gallery Space. A Voice from the Dark Space brings a musical experience that studies the dark, the quiet
- [Hatched 2011](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2011/) - It is with great pleasure that PICA invites you to the opening of HATCHED 2011 HATCHED HAS TURNED 20! Hatched has been the launching pad for the professional careers of many of the country's most successful contemporary artists. The exhibition, now in its 20th year, has been exclusively presented by PICA since 1992. It is
- [Africa](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/africa/) - Where some see abandon and chaos, others see the child's ability to transform their surroundings into places of wonder and delight. Inspired by the true story of three German children who set off to elope under the African sun, broken toys, puppets, and sun-faded furniture are the props that feed the theatre of the imagination
- [This Is It](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/this-is-it/) - This Is It is an extraordinary new contemporary performance that mimics a press conference for a new movie of the same name. Team MESS, a group of young Sydney based artists who work across the performing and visual arts, use the format of this press conference to construct the completely speculative narrative of the film.
- [Lichun Tseng | Beyond the beyond](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lichun-tseng-beyond-the-beyond/) - Lichun Tseng is an artist from Taiwan who lives and works in the Netherlands. She is interested in the existential capacity of art and her residency project, Beyond the beyond will explore time, existence and space through local collaborations and new site specific works. Take part in the 100 questions project 100 questions is a
- [Tarsh Bates | In vitero](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tarsh-bates-in-vitero/) - Tarsh Bates is interested in the body as material and as a site of intervention, in evocative objects, and in the aesthetics of care: embodied encounters that are durational, affective, relational, proximal, and particular. Her practice is concerned with the aestheticisation of reproductive bodies, our capacity for alternative possibilities for care and reproduction, and the
- [Fuse](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/fuse/) - Love can give you the chance to change almost any facet of yourself in order to fit the needs of the object of your desire. But if your love is reciprocal, shouldn't they also change for you? Will this create positive perpetual motion, or a destructive vicious circle? Can those within the relationship tell which
- [Artwork Competition](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/artwork-competition/) - Choose your favourite! To celebrate PICA and Toyota's new partnership, Alex Spremberg has created two artworks for this exciting new project where you choose the outcome. The design with the most votes will be used to wrap PICA's new Toyota Rukus. Vote here for your chance to go in the running to win a special
- [Yellow Cake Tasting](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yellow-cake-tasting/) - Call out to cake lovers, bakers and food enthusiasts. On Thursday 27 October at 6pm, please join Japanese artist collective, Nadegata Instant Party in the PICA Bar, for a preview and recipe sharing session for their upcoming project, Yellow Cake Street, part of the exhibition, Alternating Currents - Japanese Art After March 2011. The PICA
- [Tom Penney | Friend World](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tom-penney-friend-world/) - Friend World is a new project that Perth artist Tom Penney will develop during his residency at PICA. A response to the transforming aesthetic of the Perth Cultural Centre, Penney will mimic Perth's new sense of community constructed through veneers of brightly coloured paint, awkward sculptures, super-sized screens and decorated rubbish bins. Penney continues to
- [Alternating Currents - Japanese Art After March 2011](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alternating-currents-japanese-art-after-march-2011/) - Alternating Currents is a major exhibition developed by PICA and the Japan Foundation and sponsored by Allens Arthur Robinson, that presents significant new work by six contemporary Japanese artists, artist collectives and musicians. Spanning a number of generations, the artists in this exhibition have multi and interdisciplinary approaches to their art making that encompass performance,
- [AWESOME Festival: The Washing Powder Conspiracy](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/awesome-festival-the-washing-powder-conspiracy/) - As part of the 2011 AWESOME Festival for Bright Young Things, The Washing Powder Conspiracy is a multimedia music and theatre concert for ages 8 and up. Creating live music from flat irons, old washing machines and laundry baskets, the group leads the audience through a series of absurd scenes, while flirting with issues of
- [Open Studio Night December 2011](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-december-2011/) - Join Perth artists Tom Penney and Abdul Abdullah, Casey Ayres and Nathan Beard at 6pm as they discuss their recent residencies with artist and critical thinker Lauren Brown (VIC). Clock Tower Studio Tom Penney Friend World Residency: 4 November - 31 December, 2011 Friend World is a new project that responds to the transforming aesthetic
- [Sarah Elson](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sarah-elson/) - Previous recipient of the prestigious Samstag scholarship and MFA graduate from the Chelsea College of Art in London, Perth artist Sarah Elson has conceived her most expansive body of work yet for a solo exhibition in PICA's West End Gallery. Sarah Elson's practice involves making painstakingly intricate castings of small plant and insects; flower bulbs,
- [Jeppe Hein](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jeppe-hein/) - In partnership with the Perth International Arts Festival, PICA presents the first solo exhibition in Australia by highly acclaimed Danish Artist, Jeppe Hein. An exciting survey of major works by the artist will be brought together and presented both inside the vast galleries of PICA, and outside in the busy Cultural Centre with the epic
- [Studio Open Night March 2010](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/studio-open-night-march-2010-2/) - Join our current Artists in Residence, Gemma Weston, Jamie Macchiusi, and Andrew Varano, in a discussion led by Robert Cook, Curator at Art Gallery of Western Australia. Curator in Residence, Conseulo Cavaniglia, will outline her future project investigating disused sites within the cityscape; and Artist Sarah Rowbottam will discuss how the new Writing Studio at
- [Breakings](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/breakings/) - 'A sharp, confronting and reflective look at today's mediated world' Amongst a pile of out-of-tune television sets, walls converge and a body is caught between hope and fear. Breakings questions our relationship with the media and how it influences our perception of the world. Hailed by the West Australian as 'one of Perth's most promising
- [Opening Hatched 2010](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/opening-hatched-2010/) - It is with great pleasure that PICA invites you to the opening of Hatched 2010 National Graduate Show. Followed by the announcement of the winner of the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize, the PICA Bar will be open from 6pm with live entertainment by Felicity Groom and DJ Chip. The exhibitions will be opened by
- [The Shape of Things](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-shape-of-things/) - A chance meeting between Evelyn, a renegade art student and Adam, a nerdy English Lit Major, sets in motion a cautionary tale of deceit and manipulation. Evelyn offers Adam the tools to dramatically reinvent himself both physically and psychologically. Though how far should you go for the one you love? A shocking dissection of cruelty,
- [SPRUNG](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sprung/) - A new work choreographed by Sue Peacock with Stefan Karlsson. She practices weird moves, he dresses up and relives past moments of glory. Two artists confront their individual histories. Together, they look for a place to start so that they can finish.
- [Kate Abon](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kate-abon/) - A phenomenological experience of landscape Kate Abon is a Perth based artist and arts writer who is interested in the way ontological paradigm shifts change the way we interact with the world. During the twentieth-century, the western philosophical treatment of perception was no longer dominated by vision. Knowledge gained from subjective sensorial experience was shown
- [Steven Morgana](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/steven-morgana/) - Steven Morgana will be using his residency to test out his project All Your Hopes and Dreams Vibrating at the Speed of Light. Motivated by the desire to create and transmit a message that is eternal, the artist is working with Physicist Glen Lawson to create an apparatus that will encode and convert a message
- [Personal Political Physical Challenge](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/personal-political-physical-challenge/) - Coinciding with a surreal and conceptually impossible anniversary celebration, a suburban couple search for reconnection through radical exercises in their garage. Featuring dance, theatre and flaming design, this show is a provocative, entertaining and adult extrapolation of the childhood game of risk; truth, dare, physical challenge. A uniquely high stakes experience Personal, Political, Physical Challenge
- [Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila & Lee](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yellow-moon-the-ballad-of-leila-lee/) - A gritty contemporary tale of young love, looming tragedy and the unexpected. Lee is a cocky teenager who seems to attract trouble, Silent Leila's a 17 year-old Muslim girl looking for a way to fit in. She spends her Friday nights lost in the blurry universe of glossy celebrity magazines, Lee stealing booze from the
- [Jia-Jen Lin (Taiwan/New York)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jia-jen-lin-taiwannew-york/) - Taiwanese artist Jia-Jen Lin will be using the residency to explore the process of an exchange in a foreign city through examination of the variations of culture; through collected imagery, life style, daily observation, and use of space through architecture as well as natural environment. This residency will further develop Lin's investigation into the relationship
- [SHIMURABROS. (JPN)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shimurabros-jpn/) - Yuka and Kentaro Shimura are SHIMURABROS., a sister and brother duo based in Yokohama, Japan. They are interested in the history of the motion picture from the Lumiere Brothers to Buster Keaton and its evolution into the twenty-first century. They are driven by a desire to extend film beyond its two-dimensional limitations by employing increasingly
- [Behind the Door](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/behind-the-door/) - What makes us hoard things? Why do some of us hoard and others not? When does our desire to collect things crossover into dysfunctional behaviour? Japanese-Australian artist Hiromi Tango's Behind the Door explores the nature of hoarding and the boundaries between function and dysfunction. Hiromi will collaborate with local artists and the general public on
- [Public Demands](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/public-demands/) - Adelaide-based sound artist, filmmaker and performance wrangler Jason Sweeney presents the aftermath of his Public Demands project. Public Demands was a six-week creative stand-off between Jason and his audience. During his project, the public had been invited to make demands of Jason and he had to respond by making performances, songs, sound, films and text.
- [some kind of intermission](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/some-kind-of-intermission/) - Exploring the rhythms of oral story telling, misunderstood cultural theory and spoken pop as prose poetry, this site-specific performance is a three-person modulating monologue inside cult record store 78 records. some kind of intermission: live in store! is a one-off theatrical record-store performance: a nine monologue set of pop minimalist, post-Cixous, post-The Navy Lark vocal
- [News Haiku from the West](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/news-haiku-from-the-west/) - During her visit to Perth, Barbara will be making haiku from five and seven syllable extracts she finds freshly printed in Western Australia's city and regional newspapers. She will be combining them into haiku and then printing these onto T-shirts in a public event at PICA at the end of the week. You are welcome
- [Untrained](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/untrained/) - Untrained is a humorous theatrical exploration that offers its performers and its audience a very different dance experience. Four men take to the stage. Two of these men are highly skilled, professional dancers and two are ordinary guys with no movement training whatsoever. The complex, refined movements that one man can do with ease, another
- [Studio Open Night December 2010](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/studio-open-night-december-2010/) - Join PICA's current artists in residence, Jacobus Capone, Lisa Carrie Goldberg and Jia-Jen Lin on a tour through their studios led by local artist Kate McMillan. These artists have spent three months in their studios pursuing a range of complex and diverse projects that will be revealed through a series of brand new site-specific performances
- [roadkill](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/roadkill/) - A couple are stranded in the middle of nowhere with a car that won't start next to a phone box that doesn't work. This is a road trip into the agoraphobia and desolation of the Australian outback: a place of dreams and dust and ghosts. A land where backpackers disappear and tragedy strikes the vulnerable.
- [Prime Cut](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/prime-cut/) - Prime Cut is your rendez-vous with the prime of Western Australia's contemporary dance. STRUT dance presents its popular annual program of new short works from Perth's finest independent choreographers and dancers. This selection of moving and humorous works tackle issues at the centre of modern life. These performances often sell out, so book now!
- [Jonathan Burrows](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jonathan-burrows/) - STRUT dance is thrilled to present highly acclaimed British choreographer Jonathan Burrows, together with composer Matteo Fargion for one night only. The Trilogy Package Experience three brilliant works from this renowned choreographer, presented over one memorable evening. Don't miss it! Or sample a taste of Burrows' work at either part one or part two of
- [The Dark Room](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-dark-room/) - World Premiere In this chilling new psychological thriller, six unlikely characters converge at a run-down motel on the edge of a military town. A boy waits for a stranger. Pregnant Emma waits for her husband, the country cop wasted after his best friend's wedding. Anni the government youth worker accompanied by a withdrawn seventeen year-old
- [The Spook](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-spook/) - The Western Australian premiere of an award winning Australian play A BITTERSWEET PERSONAL ODYSSEY WITH A TWENTY FIRST CENTURY BITE. Based on a true story, The Spook is an allegory of our times. Set in the 1960's, but resonating with the current Australian political climate, a teenager is recruited into ASIO and to spy on
- [Josh Schwebel](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/josh-schwebel/) - Canadian artist Josh Schwebel employs the processes of public intervention. During his residency Schwebel will create installations of 'missing art' that will engage notions of presence/absence within the context of his ongoing interesting relational aesthetics.
- [The Duel](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-duel/) - Zosima is a young man who lives a life of debauchery where nothing is out of bounds. The night before a deadly duel, he wakes with an overwhelming sense of guilt and insight. This will be the event that transforms his life and leads him from the military to a monastery. In 1880 Dostoevsky wrote
- [Putting on an Act 09](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/putting-on-an-act-09/) - Across five unique nights, PICA presents Putting on an Act, a collection of short acts by Western Australian performing artists. This rapid-fire season has proven immensely popular since its inception in 1994, offering a unique opportunity for performers to create bite sized original works. This season is jam packed with dance, performance art, theatre and
- [A Slice of Light](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-slice-of-light/) - A Slice of Light reveals the challenges and possibilities that digital interactive performance offers to the performer, composer and designers, exploring the audience's reception of non-linear interactive digital performance. Garth Paine (UWS), Paul Bourke (UWA), Brandon Hur (Melbourne) and Hellen Sky will adapt audiovisual environments to the architecture of PICA. Part installation, part performance and
- [Janet Biggs](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/janet-biggs/) - Janet Biggs' video, Anana Dream examines the role of free will in the lives of polar bears in captivity. Anana Dream is the dream of things that can never be and the loss of things unknown. Now on the endangered list due to their shrinking sea ice habitat, polar bears face the prospect of survival
- [Izabela Pluta](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/izabela-pluta/) - Sydney based photographer Izabela Pluta's practice explores the psychological connection (or disconnection) between places. Featuring a new series of large format photographs and a wallpaper mural this exhibition highlights work specially developed for PICA focusing on Western Australia's resource industries. Examining the semi-permanent, fly-in-fly out lifestyles of regions such as the Pilbara, Gestures of the
- [Heart of Gold](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/heart-of-gold/) - Westralia shall be free. A family unravelled by secrets. A haunted landscape. One boy's fantasy of Westralia at war with the Eastern States. A new, darkly comic musical about obsession, betrayal and the long buried past. Iris Brown and her children Angus and Violet live in isolation on the outskirts of Paucity. Their solitude is
- [Richard Lewer](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/richard-lewer/) - Inbetween is an exploration of the supernatural by Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer. The work derives three 'case studies' from collected and stories of encounters with ghosts and paranormal activity. Lewer's hand-drawn pencil animations play on the supernatural as a metaphoric device in movies, plays and books, and comes replete with howling winds, clattering horse hooves
- [Show Character](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/show-character/) - To 'show character' or to be a 'person of character' is perhaps meaningless in a world where the thoughts and actions of any individual can be readily uploaded and disseminated at` any given moment. One character becomes as ubiquitous as the next. Guest Curator Jonah Dames has brought together a group of Australian artists at
- [Burning Daylight](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/burning-daylight/) - It's Karaoke night, Broome style, where country meets hip hop meets Japanese love song. Closing time and they take it outside. A lone cowboy blows into town, stirring its ghosts for a long and wild night, as past and present dance it out on the street. This is explosive yet haunting dance theatre from Broome-based
- [Lumasol](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lumasol/) - Europe's quirkiest new media producers PIPS:lab invite Western Australia's bright young things to learn how to paint with light, using 'lumasol' technology. These four oddball artists will amaze you with their original mash-up of theatre, music, film and photography, creating an awe-inspiring new media artwork. PIPS:lab encourages you to be the artist, using sound, lighting
- [Gian Manik](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/gian-manik/) - Gian Manik's studio project comprises an inextricable mix of performance, sculpture and painting. His body is at the centre of his work. What we see in his studio is the outcome of his experiential and experimental practice. Artist's statement: Using my own body as a working, performative device, I occupied this studio variously performing, sculpting
- [Kids' Stuff](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kids-stuff/) - Eat Life Productions in co-production with Steamworks Arts Productions and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts by Raymond Cousse Translated by Katharine Sturak Kids' Stuff is an internationally recognised solo work where the central character, a seven year old boy, is portrayed through direct dialogue with the audience. The young boy imitates the adults he
- [Schreibstuck](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/schreibstuck/) - Three choreographic teams... three performances... one stage Three choreographic teams from STRUT dance interpret this work by one of Berlin's most inventive artists, Thomas Lehmen. Lehmen's choreography is renowned for breaking the rules of conventional performance. Last year Perth audiences had a preview of Schreibstück in one of the most warmly received performances of the
- [ReelDance](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reeldance/) - ReelDance International Dance on Screen Festival 2008 is our 5th biennial festival since 2000. The ReelDance Festival celebrates the point where dance and film meet, showcasing the best of recent work from around the world and across the country. In 2008, ReelDance Inc. moves into a new phase of activities encompassing artist development, education and
- [Prime Cut](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/prime-cut-2/) - New moves to whet your appetite... Prime Cut is your chance to catch selection of short works from the cream of Perth's independent dancers. Always diverse, often provocative, Prime Cut offers you a taste of the latest choreography from members of STRUT Dance in this annual showcase for new dance work. Preparing to be Beautiful
- [Annie Mae's Movement](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/annie-maes-movement/) - It's been more than 30 years since the body of Mi'qmak activist Annie Mae Pictou Aquash was found on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. It's still not known if she was killed by the FBI or American Indian Movement. But this play looks beyond her suspicious death - it celebrates the life of
- [Putting on an Act](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/putting-on-an-act/) - Perth's short performance festival is back! Putting on an Act offers a unique opportunity for Western Australian performers to create bite sized original works. In past years, we have seen some highly physical and 'extraordinary' performances from actors, dancers, singers and those who dabble in audio. With a different program of short performances every night,
- [Red Shoes](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/red-shoes/) - Presented by ThinIce and Artrage in association with PICA Your secret is your prisoner; if you let him escape, you become his...With his hallmark visual flair, Matthew Lutton transports Hans Christian Andersen's most notorious tale into a swirling world of seductive songs and chilling imagery. A young man becomes obsessed with a pair of shiny
- [Silver - Artrage 25](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/silver-artrage-25/) - In 2008 Artrage celebrates its 25th Anniversary. The SILVER exhibition explores visual practice in Perth over the last 25 years referencing key artists, contributors, exhibitions, artist-run initiatives (ARIs) and galleries that have been linked to ARTRAGE programs. This survey exhibition also shines a spotlight on the career trajectories of selected artists, some of whom are
- [Underground](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/underground/) - Underground is an explosive new dance theatre work, showcasing the gutsy choreography of Dancenorth's Artistic Director, Gavin Webber: 'fast, dangerous, quirky but with a core of almost angry sadness' (The Courier Mail). In Underground, Gavin collaborates with the young and dynamic ensemble of Townsville-based company Dancenorth. Underground is set in a subway during rush hour,
- [this is the time... this is the record of the time](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/this-is-the-time-this-is-the-record-of-the-time/) - Hybrid performance in Australia. A unique cross-platform event that brings together some of the most innovative and radical hybrid performance practitioners from around the country to debate, demystify and showcase interdisciplinary art as part of a new wave of live art culture in Australia. 'this is the time' at the Artrage Bakery Complex is an
- [Dyuetto](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/dyuetto/) - Osaka - Melbourne - Perth Dance to inspire... to challenge... to provoke Dyuetto offers a glimpse into the astonishing diversity of current dance styles. This unconventional triple bill brings together performers from The Dancebox in Osaka, Japan; Dancehouse in Melbourne and STRUT dance in Perth. Presented as part of the 'Silver Anniversary' Artrage Festival, these
- [Nicole Andrijevic](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/nicole-andrijevic/) - 'There is no formal difference between play and ritual, so the consecrated spot cannot be formally distinguished from the playground. The arena, the card table, the magic circle. all are, in form and function, playgrounds, i.e. forbidden spots, isolated, hedged round, hallowed, within which special rules obtain. All are temporary worlds within the ordinary world,
- [Woyzeck](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/woyzeck/) - Fires are appearing in the skies. And the Moon is turning blood red. Enter the constantly churning mind of Woyzeck, a tragic anti-hero who sits on the edge of madness and enlightenment. Woyzeck is husband, father, and soldier. A working-class simpleton who is encouraged to keep his thoughts to himself and sell his body for
- [GREAT WHITE](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/great-white/) - A BOY. A GIRL. A FIN. So begins Great White: Jack and Lauren are trapped in a nightmare that only one of them can escape. When young love meets a giant fin, suddenly life seems large, scary and beautiful. In June 2013, The Skeletal System won over critics and audiences alike with this killer tale
- [Art & Climbing - October School Holiday Workshops](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/art-climbing/) - Spark_Lab is PICA's education program, designed to ignite new ideas through hands on creativity. This school holidays kids, teenagers & families have the opportunity to learn the self-paced technique of climbing as explored in Erin Coates' exhibition KINESPHERE. This discipline encourages ways of seeing and experiencing the indoor environment through our movement within it. Writer,
- [Storytellers Project: Sculpture Workshops with ReMida](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/storytellers-project-sculpture-workshops-with-remida/) - Every Sunday in August transform recycled materials into new creations. Working with local artists, you’ll create a small sculpture or ‘emblem’ that tells your story, inspired by the people, animals, plants and events in your life or family history. Your sculpture will form part of the Storytellers Project by ReMida – Perth’s creative reuse and
- [Hatched Open Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-open-day-23/) - As part of the Hatched 2023 opening weekend, PICA’s hosting a day of activities, markets, talks and discussions for artists and art lovers. Our Open Day kicks off with an all-day market featuring prints, paintings, zines and more by local collective Plastic Ego. Learn more about Hatched at our artist talks and exhibition tour by
- [Rebecca Riggs-Bennett](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rebecca-riggs-bennett-2/) - King's Choice King's Choice is a sound and performance work that interrogates the fairy tale protagonist of the prince, through a critique of the 16th-century instruction guide for new princes and royals, ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli. The work explores masculinity, genderfluidity, power, decolonial practices, queer utopias and what it means to challenge authority to become your
- [Moses Tan: Open Studio & Photo Booth](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/moses-tan-open-studio-photo-booth/) - Bring your favourite houseplant to PICA and participate in Singaporean-based artist Moses Tan's houseplant photo booth. Learn more about Tan's interest in botany, sculpture and queer community-building as he discusses his practice with queer academic and activist Duc Dau. As part of PICA’s Asia Pacific Exchange Program, get a sneak peek at Tan's new experimental,
- [Moses Tan](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/moses-tan/) - Asia Pacific Exchange 2023 represents the first three-year residency exchange program between PICA and residency partners, Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan) and Grey Projects (Singapore). In this program, Western Australian artists are invited to apply for an eight-week artist residency with our international partners. Awarded to two artists yearly, the residency will include studio visits, open
- [Joshua Pether](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/joshua-pether/) - The Reckoning The Reckoning is a decolonisation project and a spiritual quest that aims to generate a First Nations performance methodology addressing the intergenerational trauma of Australia’s colonial past and its collective amnesia. The Reckoning facilitates reflective engagement and healing through a First Nations paradigm and performance pedagogy. First Nations ways of being and knowing have been critical
- [The Reckoning – Joshua Pether, Helah Milroy & Janine Oxenham](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-reckoning-joshua-pether-helah-milroy-janine-oxenham/) - As part of a three-week residency at PICA, Joshua Pether, Janine Oxenham and Helah Milroy revisit their durational performance ritual The Reckoning, created in 2021 through a creative development at PICA. The first performance outcome was a seven-hour performance ritual that utilised First Nations wisdom and knowledge whilst also taking inspiration from Butoh, a form
- [Weekends at PICA – Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekends-at-pica-artist-talks/) - Join us for Weekends at PICA, a family-friendly morning filled with coffee, pastries, activities and conversation with Season One Bunuru artists Robert Andrew and Elizabeth Willing. A descendant of the Yawuru people of the Broome region of the Kimberley, Robert Andrew will discuss his kinetic exhibition Held within a word, with highly regarded Noongar painter,
- [Burrbgaja Yalirra 2 – Marrugeku](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/marrugeku-burrbgaja-yalirra-2/) - World Premiere Tour
- [Yen Tzu Chang – Open Studio: Asia Pacific Exchange](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/asia-pacific-exchange-open-studio-yen-tzu-chang-taiwan/) - 2023 is the first of a three-year residency exchange program between PICA and residency partners Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan) and Grey Projects (Singapore). In this program, two Western Australian artists are selected for an eight-week residency hosted by our residency partners; in exchange, PICA welcomes an artist from Taiwan and Singapore. Yen Tzu Chang is
- [Hatched Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-open-studios-facilitated-by-ramesh-mario-nithiyendran/) - Grab a drink and join us for a night of conversation with our resident Hatched artists Remy Faint (NSW) and Ilona McGuire (WA), facilitated by Hatched Curatorial Fellow Miranda Johnson. Remy Faint’s residency at PICA is focused on repositioning their practice geographically from the east to the west coast of Australia, establishing a unique framework
- [Open Studios & Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-artist-talks/) - Grab a drink on us and see what our current resident artists Triskelion and Tomoko Yamada have been creating as part of PICA's residency program. Facilitated by Emma Buswell, hear from Triskelion, an artist collective comprised of Andrew Nicholls, Louise Hamill, and Sion Prior, whose practice explores the paranormal, mysticism, religion and magick – borne out of their lifelong experiences with supernatural
- [Bryce Olsen: Hatched Resident Artist](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-resident-artist-bryce-olsen/) - Bryce Olsen, North Metropolitan TAFE (WA) is an artist based in Boorloo (Perth) who works in the field of sculpture. As part of Olsen's residency, he will produce a cohesive body of work that explores the implications of human abundance on the natural environment by hybridising the bodies and shells of natural resources with luxury
- [Jayda Wilson: Hatched Resident Artist](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-resident-artist-jayda-wilson/) - Jayda Wilson, University of South Australia is an emerging artist of Gugada, Wirangu and Thai descent. During their residency, Jayda will research genealogies and photographs from the expeditions of Norman B Tindale and JB Birdsell, held in the Aboriginal Affairs Department in Boorloo. Her great-grandmother Neva Wilson worked with these anthropology archives during the Aboriginal Family History
- [Patrick Gunasekera](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/patrick-gunasekera/) - In this two-act, multidisciplinary play, arts writer and former piano student Patrick Gunasekera are commissioned for a lecture on disability and art history. When he chooses to present on neurodivergent composers of the Western music canon, it triggers a hallucination with the ghost of Beethoven. Together, they learn to reckon with the complicated lengths they’ve
- [Jacinta Larcombe](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jacinta-larcombe/) - GFE (Girlfriend Experience) examines the social and anti-social animal in all of us. Loneliness is a major issue in Australia, but paradoxically loneliness is something that unites us all. I will explore this contradiction, with an audience, in a similar manner to the types of relationships/transactions I have with my clients. The verbal and non-verbal
- [Hatched Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-open-studio/) - We are staying open late for an after-hours look at the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023. Hear from Hatched artists-in-residence Bryce Olsen, Alexandra Peters and Jayda Wilson as they open their studios for a behind-the-scenes peek at what they’ve been working on, followed by artist talks facilitated by North Metropolitan TAFE Gallery & Program Manager,
- [Hatched Family Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-family-day/) - Get creative with the whole family at PICA's Hatched Family Day. Join us for a screen-printing workshop with Hatched artist Isaac Huggins. Learn the art of screen printing and make your own unique stencils, or use one of Issacs’s fun designs to personalise your clothing, bag, or whatever! BYO fabric – prewashed, natural, untextured and
- [Behind the Scenes Tour of PICA](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/boorloo-heritage-festival/) - Come behind the scenes at PICA during the City of Perth's Boorloo Heritage Festival to see an iconic heritage building located in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre. Originally opened in 1897 as the Government School (later Perth Boys' School), the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) took up residence in 1991. Located on
- [Hatched Tactile Tour](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2023-tactile-tour/) - As part of PICA's Hatched Open Day, PICA and DADAA present a free tactile tour of the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023 exhibition for blind or low vision people. Hatched presents a dynamic selection of emerging artists recently graduated from art schools across Australia. Nominated by their teachers and selected by a panel of artists
- [Hatched Schools Expo](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-schools-expo/) - Join us for free student and educator-focused conversations with industry experts about pathways and success in the arts. Get behind-the-scenes insights from curators and artists and learn about developing artworks that communicate meaning and purpose, the selection process for graduate art exhibitions and judging criteria for art awards. To Book Contact PICA's Learning, People &
- [Dureshawar Khan](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/dureshawar-khan/) - For those who threw the Oranges (and came back to clean the mess) is a durational performance that explores the theme of repentance. The work aims to honour apologies left unoffered through audience participation and the creation of an objet d’art (a small object considered to be of artistic worth).Dureshawar will have her studio door
- [Scientific Speculations: Panel Discussion](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/scientific-speculations/) - Explore the rich intersection of art, science and technology in a conversation between artists, technologists, astrophysicists and researchers at PICA's Scientific Speculations. Hear about new developments in science and technology, how it shapes our future, and the ways artists are incorporating it into their practice. Learn from Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, a Noongar technologist, writer and digital
- [The Outsiders and KickstART Festival present: an Evening of African Poetry and Storytelling (EAPS) ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-outsiders-and-kickstart-festival-present-an-evening-of-african-poetry-and-storytelling-eaps/) - An Evening of African Poetry and Storytelling is an interdisciplinary live performance show that brings together a collective of emerging African diaspora creatives. The African diaspora cast returns to delight with a crafty narrative and razor-sharp wordplay. Ponder over the heavy punchlines and underlying themes of mental health and community, delivered in sizzling rap and
- [KickstART Festival presents: Black and White Film Developing Workshop with Luke Moore and Silver Halide   ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kickstart-festival-presents-black-and-white-film-developing-workshop-with-luke-moore-and-silver-halide/) - Learn everything you need to know about developing your roll of film by hand, including loading, unloading, developing, fixing, and drying film, in this beginner-friendly workshop for all. After the workshop, experience Emanations by Italian-german artist Rosa Barba, featuring a selection of works from the last ten years, including 16mm and 35mm film, sculpture and installation. For
- [KickstART Festival presents: The Sit by Amsha x Leilani Apa  ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kickstart-festival-presents-the-sit-by-amsha-x-leilani-apa/) - An interactive meditation workshop for confidence, self-belief and relaxation to help you get creative and to go after your dreams! The workshop will include a guided relaxation meditation, movement meditation and journaling, so bring a pen and paper to jot down any ideas and if you have one, a yoga mat or cushion! The workshop
- [Bruno Booth – Dead Ends and Detours](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bruno-booth-dead-ends-and-detours/) - Dead Ends and Detours by Walyalup (Fremantle)-based artist Bruno Booth puts the audience in a wheelchair and demonstrates that disability is not a dirty word. Playful and subversive, this interactive outdoor installation invites passers-by to compete in an obstacle course in the Perth Cultural Centre. Using a wheelchair, race against the clock and the system
- [Brian Fuata – THIS IS](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/brian-fuata-this-is/) - THIS IS (2023) is a new improvised performance by Sydney-based artist Brian Fuata based on Fuata's recent performance, Easter (2023), which was aborted midway through the second act due to a technical malfunction. Announcing "I can't do this anymore", Fuata walked out without completing the three-act sequence. Easter (2023) is the "coming out story" drawing
- [Archie Barry – Scaffolding (Preface)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/archie-barry-scaffolding-preface/) - Archie Barry is a Naarm (Melbourne)-based artist working in performance and video. Their recent video, Scaffolding (Preface), is premised on an imagined society of children who have evolved a fugitive mode of non-lingual communication in order to evade contemporary and late-modern conditions of surveillance. Joining footage of microscopic organisms, rock pools and construction sites, an
- [Yen Tzu Chang](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yen-tzu-chang/) - Asia Pacific Exchange 2023 represents the first of a three-year residency exchange program between PICA and residency partners, Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan) and Grey Projects (Singapore). In this program, Western Australian artists are invited to apply for an eight-week artist residency with our international partners. Awarded to two artists each year, the residency will include
- [Everywhen – Matthias Schack-Arnott](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/everywhen/) - WA Premiere Everywhen is ‘visually and sonically exquisite.’ — The Guardian A lone performer sits on the stage surrounded by dozens of objects in perpetual motion. From the tiny to the massive, this whirlpool of floating sounds forms a percussive swarm of gongs and chimes, while concentric circles of organic matter accumulate below. This teeming
- [Chris Williams](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/chris-williams/) - AYFAT (All Yours For A Time) is a personalised performance service where you choose the archetype you would like me to be in your life (for a time). Played out in your world, in the real life spaces of your choice, AYFAT is part performance, part play and social experiment. Through the website participants choose an archetype and
- [Las Hormigas Performance](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/las-hormigas-performance/) - Every Saturday, watch an ever-evolving, ever-changing performance in PICA’s Ground Floor Galleries as part of Pilar Mata Dupont’s Las Hormigas/The Ants. Three unreliable narrators play members of the artist’s family, constantly changing roles, as they attempt to piece together testimonies of a past mediated through Mata Dupont’s auto-fictive screenplay, interweaving elements of family drama, and experimental,
- [Logue Lake](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/logue-lake/) - Logue Lake is a queer cabin-in-the-woods horror exploring authenticity, the subconscious, and queer identity. Utilising low-power FM radio transmitters, each character has their own assigned FM radio station. With it, you can listen in – switch between – and follow each character's conversations, thoughts, and personalised soundtrack. Staged in the round – audiences can roam around
- [Las Hormigas/The Ants — Pilar Mata Dupont](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pilar-mata-dupont/) - Latinx visual artist and filmmaker Pilar Mata Dupont presents a vivid exploration of intergenerational storytelling and the fragmentation of memory in Las Hormigas/The Ants told across video, photography, and performance. Influenced by her background and upbringing in the settler-colonial states of Brunei, Argentina and Australia, Mata Dupont uses dark, absurdist humour to reflect on her Argentinian family’s complicated past, and how trauma manifests over large geographical and temporal
- [Hundreds + Thousands – Daniel Kok & Luke George](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hundreds-thousands/) - Hundreds + Thousands is a lush, sensory performance for humans and plants, created by long-time collaborators Luke George (Melbourne) and Daniel Kok (Singapore). Blending dance, experimental music, and installation – with plants as mediators, performers, and new companions – Hundreds + Thousands blurs the boundaries between people and the natural world. Rearrange your collective experience of the visual,
- [Burrbgaja Yalirra 1](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/burrbgaja-yalirra-2018/) - From the creators of Gudirr Gudirr, Cut the Sky, and Burning Daylight, Burrbgaja Yalirra (Dancing Forwards) is an evocative triple bill of new solo works. Curated by Marrugeku’s Artistic Directors Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain, each work is an invitation from our leading change-makers to experience intercultural exchange. Through a series of collaborations with Marrugeku
- [Panel Discussion: A Las Hormigas/To the Ants ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/panel-discussion-a-las-hormigas-to-the-ants/) - In response to Pilar Mata Dupont’s new exhibition, Las Hormigas/The Ants, Latinx artists Paola Bórquez Arce, Caro Duca, and Pilar Mata Dupont explore intergenerational trauma and how it plays out in our daily lives, facilitated by Dr Pilar Kasat. The panel will discuss their individual practices and research, speaking about resilient bodies, and autobiographical theatre. The
- [Film Screening: Getting to Know You: The King and I in context with Nathan Beard](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/film-screening-getting-to-know-you-the-king-and-i-in-context-with-nathan-beard/) - Join PICA exhibiting artist Nathan Beard for a screening of the classic film The King and I. Nathan’s solo exhibition A Puzzlement draws on the film as key source material in representing the ways in which Thailand is viewed in the Western cultural imagination. Before the screening Nathan will be in conversation with Dr Christina Lee, Senior Lecturer
- [PICA After Dark: Aiyana](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-aiyana/) - Kick off PICA After Dark with a homage to Latin American music from Aiyana. Known for co-creating Tabula Raza – a high-energy Latino-Caribbean fusion band – Aiyana has brought her extensive music knowledge to Pilar Mata Dupont’s Las Hormigas performance. Enjoy an acoustic set while roaming the galleries with a free* beer in hand. PICA
- [PICA After Dark: Hi. Ok, Sorry.](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-hi-ok-sorry/) - Expect an immersive, mesmerising set from experimental electro duo Hi. Ok, Sorry. Using analogue synthesisers, the duo will build a rhythmic soundscape in the galleries for a unique, unconstrained performance, never to be repeated. PICA After Dark sees PICA throw open our doors for a series of late-night music and film events over November and
- [PICA After Dark: Soul Alphabet](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-soul-alphabet/) - Soul Alphabet DJs, PopcornGyal and ADEBOII, herald in the final PICA After Dark of the year with a joyful Bla(c)k sonic dance party covering everything from dancehall to amapiano. PICA After Dark sees PICA throw open our doors for a series of late-night music and film events over November and December. Visit our galleries on
- [PICA After Dark:  RTRFM Edition](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-rtrfm-edition/) - Presented in collaboration with RTRFM Listen to the sounds of local DJ and producer, Girlname in our PICA After Dark: RTRFM Edition. Experience their unique blend of underground house, techno, jungle, electro, bass, dancehall, gqom, hip hop, and disco. PICA After Dark sees PICA throw open our doors for a series of late-night music and film
- [Body of Knowledge — Samara Hersch & Company](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/body-of-knowledge/) - "Hersch’s art is powerful, visceral, and profoundly imaginative... she engages with universal topics in a transcendent and moving manner." – The Theatre Times This intimate and playful work, performed by teenagers who call into the theatre on mobile phones, is a powerful meditation on age and change: changes to bodies, changes in attitude, and changes to life.
- [Other Ways of Being Together](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/other-ways-of-being-together/) - Led by Body of Knowledge creator Samara Hersch, Other Ways of Being Together is a participatory workshop that looks at conversation as performance and how we can use different strategies to consider intimacy, care and listening across distance and age. Participants can be from any arts background/discipline, and can be non-practising (i.e. not a career artist). Participants are
- [Triskelion](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/triskelion/) - Triskelion is a collective exploring the artists’ shared interest in the paranormal, mysticism, religion and magick, borne of each participant’s lifelong experiences with unexplained and seemingly supernatural phenomena. The artists’ aim will be to manifest contact with ‘the other’ that countless mystics, magicians and artists throughout history have encountered, (whether this be agents of the
- [Artist Talk: Nathan Beard](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/artist-talk-nathan-beard/) - Hear from artist Nathan Beard about his solo exhibition at PICA, A Puzzlement. Facilitated by PICA Curator Sarah Wall, Nathan will delve into the rich, varied and sometimes mischievous concepts underpinning this major exhibition, including his recent six-month residency at ACME Studios in London, UK, and fascination with Looney Tunes. During this residency Nathan spent time
- [Boojamulling Birdwatching: Urban Walking Tour ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/boojamulling-birdwatching-urban-walking-tour/) - Explore the birds in your backyard and the histories behind how they came to be here in this interactive walking tour, which takes you from Boojamulling (Hyde Park) to Goologoolup (PICA). Join Aboriginal leader and Nyoongar Traditional Owner, Walter McGuire, and bird conservation specialist, Lindall Kidd, and hear traditional stories of Nyoongar Bibbulmun Boodja, including
- [Emma Fishwick](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emma-fishwick/) - As a choreographic practioner, Emma’s practice continuously questions whether dance can achieve the often-complex connections between the human and non-human. Emma’s dialogues with textiles, image, object, and scholarship serves her questioning continuum of what the dancing form can be. Emma’s residency takes the opportunity to critically engage with themes that emerged from her recent choreographic
- [Tomoko Yamada](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tomoko-yamada/) - Common language of thread: “Flow Movement…” is a performative and experimental exploration into the conceptual value of Tomoko Yamada’s practice. Yamada’s process focuses on linear mapping and diagramming with fluorescent-coloured threads to create installations emphasising the constantly transforming connections between art, the environment and daily life, influenced by both the past and future, with all
- [XR Hackathon 2022](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/xr-hackathon-2022/) - Held over two weekends at PICA, artists selected from our XR Bootcamp & Hackathon callout will gain hands-on experience and assistance to develop a new XR (extended reality) project. Working in small teams with a technical artist/animator and 3D developer, the Hackathon will provide artists with practical experience in the XR development process including technical setup, software/hardware
- [Telephone – The Last Great Hunt](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/telephone/) - What happens when you’re on hold? A tax auditor has an unusual proposition. The kids are hacking the spirit world. A man leaves a voicemail. A neighbour calls 000. Over hundreds of phone calls, The Last Great Hunt takes you on a journey into communication. From prank calls to telemarketing, bugging and bad connections, Telephone
- [To companion a companion<br>Fernando do Campo](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/to-companion-a-companionfernando-do-campo/) - To companion a companion is a playful exhibition of new work by Argentinean-Australian artist Fernando do Campo that proposes humans as the companion species to birds. Originally coined by theorist Donna Haraway, the term a ‘companion species’ describes two species that have evolved in tandem. Humans have long co-habited with companion species. While many are
- [XR Hackathon Showcase](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/xr-hackathon-showcase/) - PICA presents six new locally developed works by Perth-based artists. Created over a four day Hackathon event as part of PICA’s partnership with Frame Labs and Immerse Australia. These works present the exciting visions of artists working with AR, VR and 360 video for the first time. The new works explore a range of ideas,
- [XR Hackathon Works in Progress – Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/xr-hackathon-works-in-progress-artist-talks/) - As part of the XR:WA Festival, join us for an afternoon of conversation with a selection of the artists who participated in our XR Bootcamp + Hackathon program. Hear about their experiences learning and working with immersive technologies, including how it challenged and extended their arts practice into the future.
- [Art in XR: Creating Immersive Worlds](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/art-in-xr-creating-immersive-worlds/) - Art in XR Seminar PICA presents an afternoon of discussion and networking for fans of XR, artists, creatives, technical experts and developers interested in applying to be involved in the PICA Hackathon program over August and September. Seminar participants will hear from Producer and Chair of Immerse Australia Natalie Marinho and Founder of Frame Labs
- [Out of Bounds Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/out-of-bounds-artist-talks/) - Hear from some of WA’s most compelling artists as they discuss their work in our newest exhibition Out of Bounds. Perk up with coffee, and pastries while curators Sarah Wall and Miranda Johnson chat with artists Pip Lewi, Imogen Kotsoglo, Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge, Joana Partyka and Tyrown Waigana about their playful, rebellious and intimate meditations
- [Performance Lecture: The archive of we](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/performance-lecture-the-archive-of-we/) - Join exhibiting artist Fernando do Campo as he presents The archive of we, a performance lecture that discusses the knotted histories we come across in urban multispecies encounters. The presentation focuses on the House Sparrow Society for Humans (HSSH) archives, an entity that the artist has been working with as an amateur volunteer historian since 2015.
- [Hiroshi Kobayashi](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hiroshi-kobayashi/) - Patagraph\Patagram is an expanded interplay between visual, computational, physical and material languages. During his residency at PICA, Hiroshi Kobayashi sets out to examine relationships between personal memories and mass products through the development of a method that connects these languages while preserving their uniqueness, including responsive/interactive digital platforms and traditional paint materials. Patagraph is a
- [PICA Salon Vernissage 2022](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-salon-vernissage-2022/) - Salon Vernissage is the highlight of PICA’s annual donor program, and this year launches Out of Bounds – a dynamic group exhibition that celebrates the diversity, talent and boundary-stretching practices of artists living and working on this land. All works will be for sale on the night, offering the opportunity to begin or grow your
- [While You Sleep – Sal Cooper & Kate Neal](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/while-you-sleep/) - Dark, subtle and surprising, While You Sleep weaves string quartet, piano, electronics, film and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is as it seems. In this aural and visual excursion into the musical fugue and psychological ‘fugue state’ performers spin across the stage on wheeled chairs as they interact with immersive
- [Working in Synergy: Collaborative fusion of the visual and sonic](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/working-in-synergy-collaborative-fusion-of-the-visual-and-sonic/) - Join animation and visual media artist Sal Cooper and composer and sound designer Kate Neal for a day long workshop exploring the collaboration between vision and sound as part of their While You Sleep National Tour. While You Sleep is an aural and visual excursion into the musical fugue and psychological ‘fugue state’ performers spin
- [I'm a Dirty Dinosaur Trail](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/im-a-dirty-dinosaur-trail/) - Looking for something exciting to do these school holidays? After visiting the WA Museum Boola Bardip Dinosaurs of Patagonia exhibition, continue the fun with the Dinosaur Trail through the Perth Cultural Centre which stops at PICA. The trail includes a giant erupting dinosaur egg commissioned by Perth artist Amy Perejuan-Capone. At PICA you can reuse
- [NAIDOC Week Exhibition Tours](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/naidoc-week-exhibition-tours/) - Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! for truth and justice by rallying together for change and hearing from First Nations artists. Everyday during NAIDOC Week, we'll hear from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives as they lead special tours of our Hatched National Graduate Show 2022. Gain a glimpse into the future of arts practice,
- [Shaun Gladwell Artist Talk](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shaun-gladwell-artist-talk/) - PICA and Revelation Perth International Film Festival present Shaun Gladwell, The Cinematic, a presentation of two recent film works by one of Australia’s leading artists. Presented together for the first time, don’t miss this chance to hear from the artist in conversation with curator Dr. Greg Ferris at PICA. Free to attend | RSVP required
- [NAIDOC Week Artist Talk: Ilona McGuire](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/naidoc-week-artist-talk-ilona-mcguire/) - On Thursday 7 July, hear from Ilona McGuire, a proud Whadjuk, Ballardong, Yuat and Kungarakan woman, as she discusses her award-winning artwork in Hatched National Graduate Show 2022. As the creator of Moombaki, McGuire transformed the night sky for the 2021 Fremantle Biennale with 160 drones to share Whadjuk Dreamtime stories. Learn more about her
- [Shaun Gladwell: The Cinematic](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shaun-gladwell-the-cinematic/) - As part of Revelation Perth International Film Festival, PICA presents video artist Shaun Gladwell’s meditative investigations of movement under Melbourne’s restrictive COVID-19 lockdown. For these two recent video works Key Strikes (2022) and Homo Suburbiensis (2020), installed together for the first time, Gladwell operated within the curfewed 5km radius. His signature ‘movement languages’ – skating, BMX riding and climbing
- [Hatched After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-after-dark/) - PICA is open late and ready to celebrate our final weeks of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022, presented to you by us, PICA, Rocky Ridge, and PICABAR. Hatched After Dark will be a chance to grab a cold frothy from Rocky Ridge Brewing Co, whilst listening to music curated with care by local sound selectors
- [We hold you close<BR>Katie West](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/we-hold-you-closekatie-west/) - Working with textiles and locally sourced plant matter, York-based artist Katie West's immersive installations invite us to reconsider our relationship with the natural environment and each other. In her largest and most ambitious project to-date, We Hold You Close is a song for material intimacy that invites us to interact and engage in a sensory
- [Remy Faint](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/remy-faint/) - My practice is motivated by the desire to expand languages of painterly and scultptural abstraction by examining its global histories. The works I make are often modular and respond creatively to their architectural settings. While often working with diverse painting substrates, I am interested in referencing objects and materials specific to my Chinese heritage. For
- [Ilona McGuire](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ilona-mcguire/) - Throughout the evolution of my art practice, I have explored a wide range of mediums to convey my most intimate contemplations. I have attempted to push the viewer experience by combining contemporary and Indigenous concepts. I find that this approach often creates interesting reactions stirred by questions about the relationships between the materials or imagery
- [Hatched Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-artist-talks-2/) - Don’t miss your chance to hear directly from some of Australia’s most promising emerging artists from across the continent. Join us for a series of artist talks to celebrate the opening of the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022. Hear from artists Sasha Hunt (NSW), Shaye Dương (SA), Morgan Hogg (NSW) and Dylan Sarra (QLD), followed
- [The How: A Forum for Emerging Artists](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-how-building-sustainable-practicea-forum-for-emerging-artists/) - To coincide with the opening of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022, this panel discussion brings together a group of highly commended artists and creative practitioners, each with an array of unique insights and experiences of forging and sustaining a creative practice. In present times of economic, political and social upheaval, with a federal election fast
- [Leitī by Sione Tuívailala  Monū](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sione-monu/) - Leitī is a new moving image work by Sione Tuívailala Monū. Produced in 2021, the film centres on Sione and his friend and collaborator Manuha’apai Vaeatangitau. The film acts as a visual diary, constructed from footage mostly collected from over the past year by Sione on his iPhone. Friends, conversation, cooking, dress up, tarot reading,
- [Monumental<br>Amrita Hepi](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/monumentalamrita-hepi/) - ‘Monuments are dialectical. Central pillars that seep into the periphery. Like the horizon line they are steadfast informants of space - stable, grand, expansive and looming. Continuously being built, and yet continuously being rinsed out by retrospective, inertia and rain.' – Amrita Hepi Presented in Perth for the first time, Monumental appeals to the grand sensation of
- [Sam Huxtable](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sam-huxtable/) - As a non-binary trans person, I come home to myself again and again. These moments are like a long exhale, with fleeting glimpses of safeness, relief or euphoria. Here I do not feel exposed, distrusted or pressured to exist within any physical or emotional binary framework, unless I want to. Approaching the preciousness of an
- [Summer Exhibition Opening](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/summer-exhibition-opening/) - PICA and Perth Festival invite you to the opening of We hold you close, Katie West and Monumental, Amrita Hepi. Join us for a Welcome to Country by Whadjuk Balardong Noongar woman Ingrid Cumming, an opening address by Perth Festival Artistic Director Iain Grandage and a special musical performance. ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS We hold you close by Katie West Drawing together
- [In Conversation<br>Katie West and Simon Charles](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/artist-talkkatie-west-and-simon-charles/) - Join us at PICA for a conversation between exhibiting artist Katie West, and collaborator & composer Simon Charles focusing on the production and synergies between Katie’s material exploration and Simon’s soundscape composition. You are invited to gain a deeper insight into the immersive installation that forms part of We hold you close, a major solo
- [Sky Cave<BR>Kite Making Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sky-cavekite-making-workshop/) - Under the sweeping views of her exhibition Sky Cave, work directly with Amy Perejuan-Capone and learn how to make your very own kite from recycled materials at this drop-in session! Materials are provided free of charge. Participation is by gold coin donation.
- [Sky Cave<BR>All Ages Activity](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sky-cave-all-ages-activity/) - Be inspired by artist Amy Perejuan-Capone’s exhibition ‘Sky Cave’ which explores her family’s history of flight. Then take to our Reading Room to design and colour your very own glider. Colour your wings, cut it out, and add it to the collection of gliders that hail from our sky blue wall.
- [I don't see colour<br>Salote Tawale](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/i-dont-see-colour/) - Salote Tawale is the inaugural recipient of the Michela & Adrian Fini Artist Fellowship, awarded by the Sheila Foundation.I don’t see colour presents a new body of work by Salote Tawale, the starting point for which is a conversation that took place between the artist and a philosophy student at a party in the UK.
- [Escape<br>Hang-Gliding Film Night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/escape-film-night/) - Experience a night of Super8 films uncovered from the deep archives of the local hang-gliding community accompanied by a live score from Perth electronic music duo Hi Ok Sorry. The screenings will be followed by a launch of the super limited-edition catalogue for Amy Perejuan-Capone’s exhibition Sky Cave at PICA. This unique catalogue features handmade
- [Sky Cave<br>Amy Perejuan-Capone](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sky-cave/) - Conceived for the central gallery space at PICA, Amy Perejuan-Capone presents a new body of work including sculpture, video and installation, using the dramatic height of the gallery for the presentation of historical hang gliders. Sky Cave continues Perejuan-Capone's excavations of the family archives documenting an ever-present pursuit of flight. Recent projects have developed through
- [Coming Home<BR>Alex Martinis Roe](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kin/) - Coming Home is a solo exhibition presenting a new body of work by Alex Martinis Roe, along with her film Bliss Techniques (2018). Through film, animation, diagrams, and archival material, Coming Home explores the legacy of the kinship practices that began in the Australian Women’s Liberation and Gay & Lesbian Liberation movements in a small
- [Rise And Shine](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rise-and-shine/) - Come and celebrate our latest exhibitions Sky Cave by Amy Perejuan-Capone and Coming Home by Alex Martinis Roe in absolute morning bliss. We’ve got fresh pastry treats from baker Natasha Brownfield, hot brews from Pound Coffee, tasty mimosas from PICABAR, and the greatest morning mix from the Good Company DJs. Popping down will also give
- [2021 Spring Exhibitions Opening](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2021-spring-exhibitions-opening/) - Join us as we both welcome and celebrate the opening of PICA’s 2021 spring exhibitions. Sky Cave by Amy Perejuan Capone is a solo exhibition that was conceived for the central gallery space at PICA. This new body of work includes sculpture, video and installation, using the dramatic height of the gallery for the presentation
- [Justin Balmain: Digital Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/justin-balmain-digital-open-studio/) - Join PICA Studio Artist Justin Balmain for a virtual artist talk and discussion. Hear about Balmain’s digital residency through PICA from his home in Melbourne over Zoom. 3-Days Without Light is a scripted short-film that has formed out of Justin Balmain’s partnership with the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, Marseille, France. Focusing upon a haunted
- [Hiroshi Kobayashi: Open Studio Weekend](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hiroshi-kobayashi-open-studio-weekend/) - Over the weekend of 2 and 3 October, current PICA studio artist Hiroshi Kobayashi will be opening his studio for visitors to come in and see his works in progress. You are invited to speak with Hiroshi about his unique, experimental technique and see the results of his 3-month residency at PICA where he invited
- [Curu Mai: Community Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/curu-mai-community-day/) - The final event for PICA’s Curu Mai public program, presented to coincide with Salote Tawale’s exhibition I don’t see colour, we are inviting Fijian community and friends to join us for ‘Na lewe ni yagoda Sa noda i talanoa: Our flesh is our stories’ on October 4th for art making and storytelling in PICA’s reading
- [Character Creators](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/character-creators/) - Come to PICA these school holidays to create an epic storyboard! Create your own characters in a storytelling activity with local artists. Learn about illustration and collage in a creative play project for children and families. PICA invites you to help build an epic storyboard which is meters in length and features your own family
- [Hundreds + Thousands (Multi-City): Virtual Nursery](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hundreds-thousands-multi-city-virtual-nursery/) - Presented by Performance Space; Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Hong Kong; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts This Virtual Nursery is an exhibition of 100 digital artefacts co-created by plant-lovers and their plants from across the world. Created through the Hundreds + Thousands (Multi-City): Germination workshops, the Virtual Nursery presents what happens when hundreds
- [Hundreds + Thousands (Multi-City): Germination](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hundreds-thousands-multi-city-germination/) - Presented by Performance Space; Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Hong Kong; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Calling all plant lovers! If you’ve developed a strong relationship with plants over the last year, Performance Space (Sydney), West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong), and PICA invite you and your plants to participate in a social
- [Myths & Narratives: Stories of Place](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/myths-narratives-stories-of-place/) - A discussion between a writer, a film-producer and a musician that teases out the role of storytelling, myth and narrative in shaping the identity of places we live and love. Sparked by the comparisons between Perth and Los Angeles in PICA’s current exhibition Love in Bright Landscapes, this forum delves into the unique qualities of
- [The Reckoning Showing](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-reckoning-showing/) - Join artists Joshua Pether, Helah Milroy and Janine Oxenham at the end of their residency for work in progress showings of their new work, The Reckoning. A decolonisation project that aims to address the intergenerational trauma of Australia’s colonial past, The Reckoning seeks to explore and honour First Nations ways of being and doing. Morning
- [Artist Talks | Love in Bright Landscapes](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/artist-talks-libl/) - Join us for an afternoon of artist talks to celebrate the opening weekend of PICA’s two new exhibitions, Love in Bright Landscapes and I don’t see colour. Love in Bright Landscapes, curated by Annika Kristensen (ACCA, Melbourne), considers Perth and Los Angeles as comparative case studies, bringing together a selection of artworks made in reference
- [CALLOUT: XR BOOTCAMP](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/callout-xr-bootcamp/) - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is pleased to offer the opportunity for creative practitioners working within visual arts, performance and/or interdisciplinary practices to attend a XR bootcamp facilitated by Frame Labs on Friday 30 July (10am–5pm). The PICA XR CO LAB Bootcamp is a one-day intensive bootcamp for creative practitioners who are keen to
- [PICA Salon Vernissage 2021](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-salon-vernissage-2021/) - Salon Vernissage is Perth’s signature art event. The flagship event for PICA’s award-winning donor program, the annual Salon Vernissage celebrates contemporary art, music, food, drink and fashion in a uniquely PICA way. In 2021 the Vernissage will launch Love in Bright Landscapes – a curatorial case study of Perth and Los Angeles, told through the
- [Healing & Resistance](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/healing-and-resistance/) - This NAIDOC Week join us at PICA for an evening of storytelling, artist talks and audience discussion about art practice, culture and Country. With a Welcome to Country presented by Vaughn McGuire, Hatched 2021 exhibiting artist Bradley Kickett (Nyoongar) and performance artists in residence Joshua Pether (Kalkadoon), Helah Milroy (Palyku) and Janine Oxenham (Malgana Yamatji)
- [The Reckoning](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-reckoning-creative-development/) - The Reckoning is a decolonisation project that aims to generate a First Nation’s performance methodology, that addresses the intergenerational trauma of Australia’s colonial past and the collective amnesia surrounding this. It will explore this by facilitating reflective engagement and healing through a First Nations paradigm and performance pedagogy. First Nations ways of being and knowing
- [Rabbit Punch](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rabbit-punch-creative-development/) - Rabbit Punch, made in collaboration with The Boxing Project, is an experimental sonic and physical performance that connects the depiction of boxing to the collective experience of learning to box. Lead by Rebecca Riggs-Bennett and choreographed by Jessica Russell, an artistic collective will engage in a rigorous and generative process of physically devising the work
- [Field of Flowers](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/field-of-flowers/) - Be inspired by popular culture and the natural world at PICA with this hands-on workshop to make flowers with Hama beads over 4 Saturdays and the first week of the Term 2 school holidays Our team of talented artists will help you get creative and uncover the exciting world of contemporary art. PICA invites you
- [Hatched Open Studios facilitated by Katherine Wilkinson](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-open-studios-facilitated-by-katherine-wilkinson/) - Join us for an evening of conversation and the chance to meet our Hatched resident artists. Katherine Wilkinson will be in conversation with artists Shanti Gelmi, Natalie Tso and Joshua Ophel. Shanti Gelmi’s residency at PICA sees the artist build on the metaphor of the shadow as a hidden influential force, drawing attention to the
- [Home-Signs](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/home-signs/) - Come join artist Joshua Ophel in his studio at PICA. We will screen some of his video works, discuss some of the ideas and aims of his art practice, and continue the conversation with a Q&A. ABOUT THE ARTIST Joshua Ophel engages video, interview and collaboration to examine dialogue as a site of performance
- [Cleansing #4: Performance with Natalie Tso](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/performance-natalie-tso/) - Cleansing #4.1-2 is the fourth iteration of a participatory performance that completes the installation Peeling. Audience is invited to confess to the artist, who will listen with complete silence and offer her hair that becomes skin. The ‘skin’ is a new materiality bred from intimate acts of participant confessions to the artist. Wet, draped, hung
- [Joshua Ophel](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/joshua-ophel/) - Supported by North Metropolitan TAFE. In 2020, Joshua developed a series of works collaboratively with his family and members of the Canberra Deaf community. They navigated intersecting lines of inquiry of Deaf culture, education, local histories and media representation. Joshua will be using his residency as an opportunity to extend these conversations to new audiences,
- [Natalie Quan Yau Tso (左君悠)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/natalie-tso/) - Supported by North Metropolitan TAFE. During her residency, Natalie Quan Yau Tso (左君悠) will work towards developing two performances. She will focus on community-based performances as an evolving form of political protest to create solidarity for the Hong Kong diaspora in Australia post National Security Law. Researching outside of Gadigal country (Sydney) will challenge her
- [Shanti Gelmi](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shanti-gelmi/) - Gelmi is using her residency at PICA to build on the metaphor of the shadow as a hidden influential force, drawing attention to them by concentrating on the absence of the material removed. Her aim is to give an impermanent material expression to the invisible societal and environmental forces through abstraction by incorporating movement of
- [Deanna Hitti](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/deanna-hitti/) - Supported by North Metropolitan TAFE. Deanna will be spending time at PICA developing a dialogue between the printed and projected/moving image. Her new video work, titled Liberty, is an extension of her current exploration into the complexities of Australian identity. Having grown up in a bi-cultural home, Deanna is interested in how these relations are
- [Hatched 2021 After School Special](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2021-opening-celebration/) - A glimpse at the freshest arts graduates from around the nation. Presented to you by us, PICA, and our friends MOVE, Lo-Fi, and Rocky Ridge. Our most anticipated exhibition of the year the Hatched National Graduate Show 2021 returns to its home PICA! It’s the 30th year of Hatched so come down to this after-school
- [A tactile tour of Hatched 2021](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2021-tactile-tour/) - Join us for a tactile tour of the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2021, presented in partnership with DADAA. Explore the artworks of 24 of Australia’s most promising emerging artists from across the continent. Hatched returns to PICA for its 30th anniversary. This highly anticipated group exhibition is a staple in art makers and art lovers’
- [Breathe: A Meditation Soundscape](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/breath-a-meditation-soundscape/) - Presented by PICA and WAM as part of WAMCon. Quiet your busy mind, step out the rush, melt into your seat and breathe again. Sound Artist Jeremy Segal and Singer/Songwriter Delilah Rose team up to take you on a meditative dreamwalk along our Swan River. Sonic patterns from the local environment are applied to synthesised sound to
- [Callout | KISS club 2021](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/callout-kiss-club-2021/) - Presented by PICA and pvi collective. The ever-popular KISS club returns in 2021 with a new lab format. KISS club is a performance event for ideas in development, featuring emerging and established artists across live and experimental arts practice. Created by Sydney based artist Karen Therese, KISS club has been presented by tactical media group
- [Yarning Circle with Kadjin](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yarning-circle-with-kadjin/) - Presented by Propel Youth Arts WA and PICA as part of the Youth Week WA KickstART Festival. This drop-in yarning circle opens up a circle for young people to gather, share and connect with others and themselves through art. Have a yarn with Kadjin within PICA’s current exhibition Nyinalaginy / The Gathering, an exhibition that
- [The Personal Disclosure of our Path: A BIPOC lens](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/personal-disclosure/) - Presented by Propel Youth Arts WA and PICA as part of the Youth Week WA KickstART Festival. How we can build a future that will include all intersectional voices within the narrative for change? Navigating our path within this world is difficult, but it is no secret that forcibly marginalised folks have had to face
- [Tea & Symphony](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tea-and-symphony/) - Presented by Propel Youth Arts WA and PICA as part of the Youth Week WA KickstART Festival. What if live music gigs happened in cosy tea parlours rather than bars? Come and relax with friends, family, music and tea. For one afternoon we're transforming PICA into a cosy teahouse, showcasing our favourite musicians from around
- [Michelle Aitken with Joe Lui](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/michelle-aitken-with-joe-lui/) - We are making a new experimental performance work called Showy McShowface, which will be part live theatre, and part expansive internet experience. It’s inspired by stories of companies running online polls to name things going horribly wrong. This has lead to voters picking “Boaty McBoatface” to christen a very expensive British polar research vessel, calling
- [Ailsa Waddell](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ailsa-waddell/) - Waddell will be working on their latest project love ur loops; (it won't go on forever) which intention is to engage in an evolving reflection on my fixations and loops as someone living with ADHD. They want to start a conversation with other people who are neurodiverse (specifically those with ADHD). To be able to
- [Collaboration and Process: Artist talk and demonstration with Patrick William Carter](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/collaboration-and-process-artist-talk/) - In discussion with PICA General Manager Jeremy Smith, Perth Festival artist Patrick William Carter and his mentor/collaborator Sam Fox will unpack the works exhibited in YEDI/SONGS from Patrick William Carter. Patrick will also perform a live demonstration of some of his improvisational techniques. The event will conclude with an opportunity to meet the artist in
- [Long Table Discussion: Unprecedented Times](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/long-table-discussion-unprecedented-times/) - In collaboration with the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), PICA Guest curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington will host an event, convening First Nations people living and working on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodja and invite them to reflect on recent political, cultural and social upheaval and respond to the proposition: ‘what does life look like for First Nations
- [Curator’s Tour with Glenn Iseger-Pilkington](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/curators-tour-with-glenn-iseger-pilkington/) - Join Guest Curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington on a walk through nyinalanginy​ / the gathering, a major group exhibition bringing together the voices of First Nations artists from Australia, Māori artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australian South Sea Islander artists. For First Peoples, the act of coming together is integral to individual and collective selfhood. In
- [Make a custom lei](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/make-a-custom-lei/) - Make a Helen Britton inspired lei about the environmental condition of a particular area. Plan a route to walk. Your task is to pick up items and objects that you come across as you follow a path and thread them onto your lei. These things will probably be a mix of both man- made and
- [2021 Summer Exhibitions Opening](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2021-summer-exhibitions-opening/) - Join us as we both welcome and celebrate the opening of PICA’s summer exhibitions presented in association with the Perth Festival. nyinalanginy​ / the gathering brings together the voices of First Nations artists from Australia, Māori artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australian South Sea Islander artists. Curated by Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, the gathering is an invitation
- [Four by Four: Fleeting](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/four-by-four/) - PICA presents the immersive VR short film ‘Fleeting’, a Revelation Film Festival and XR:WA Commission. Filmed in the PICA building, ‘Fleeting’ is a transportation into PICA’s history. We embody a schoolgirl as we take a journey through the past. To reminisce on what the space used to be, an all girls school. A space filled
- [KISS club 2021](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kiss-club-2021/) - KISS club is a performance event for ideas in development, featuring emerging and established artists across live and experimental arts practice. Created by Sydney based artist Karen Therese, KISS club has been presented by tactical media group pvi collective since 2010, evolving into a partnership with PICA in 2017. In 2021, KISS club continues as
- [Unheimlich](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/unheimlich/) - BOOK NOW Commissioned by PICA and presented with Performing Lines WA. WORLD PREMIERE Dip into the darkly-comic dream state that is UNHEIMLICH – a house-cat will be your guide. UNHEIMLICH, meaning un-homely/uncanny, is a space where the familiar can quickly become strange or frightening. Join our happy couple on this journey where dreams and memories
- [Queer Avatar Creation Workshop with Janet Carter](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/queer-avatar-creation-workshop/) - During her studio residency, Janet Carter has been using a speculative fiction framework to undertake some alternate world building in the studio. Exploring ideas of identity and queerness amongst the precarity of our troubled times, Janet has been asking: What if we lived in a world where our kinship ties were untethered from gender and
- [Practice & Process: Artist Talks at PICA After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/practice-and-process/) - Presented as part of PICA After Dark, Refracted Reality exhibiting artist Bruno Booth and PICA Studio Residents Janet Carter and Brent Harrison will be speaking with artist and curator Jo Darbyshire about their practices. Join us for an evening of conversation about practices and processes exploring lived experiences and histories on identity, disability, queerness and
- [Janet Carter](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/janet-carter-residency/) - Using a speculative fiction framework, she will undertake some alternate world building, by asking “What if we lived in a world where our kinship ties were untethered from gender and biology? What if we could choose our family and our roles within them? What would our social and cultural ties look like? What would be
- [PICA After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-nov-dec-2020/) - PICA After Dark Returns! In celebration of the WA Museum - Boola Bardip (Many Stories) opening, we are extending our opening hours for three nights over three weeks – every Thursday to Saturday until 5 December. PICA After Dark provides an opportunity to connect with each other after-hours while exploring our current exhibitions Refracted Reality,
- [Spring Exhibitions Opening Celebration](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/spring-exhibitions-opening-celebration/) - Join us for A Window into Love, a conversation with exhibiting artists Olga Cironis, Max Pam, and Bruce and Nicole Slatter, with guest curator Anna Louise Richardson and new PICA Curator Sarah Wall. Hear about their work and art practices through the lens of love, connection and memory, then stay for drinks, live music and
- [nyinalanginy​ / the gathering](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-gathering/) - Presented in association with Perth Festival. Curated by guest curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington. nyinalanginy​ / the gathering is a reflection upon the act of gathering – of bringing together of peoples, words, politics, objects, images, identities, histories, dreams and concerns. In the here and now, First Peoples and People of Colour find themselves simultaneously navigating a
- [YEDI / SONGS from Patrick William Carter](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/songs-from-patrick-william-carter/) - Presented in association with Perth Festival. Noongar artist and performer Patrick Carter uses performance, video, sound and painting to tell his stories. His work with The Lost Generation Project in 2007 and 2008 laid the foundations for a multi-disciplinary practice that includes elements of painting, dance, performance, and musical composition. He has developed a distinctive
- [Whale Fall](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/whale-fall/) - Written by Ian Sinclair Produced by The Kabuki Drop Commissioned by PICA and co-presented with Perth Festival WORLD PREMIERE Submerge yourself in a poetic reimagining of the classic Australian seaside drama for our cataclysmic times. Nadine returns to her beachside home, and the family she abandoned, to reconnect with her daughter. Now oceans apart, she
- [Many Voices: Stories of Love and Connection](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/many-voices/) - To celebrate the opening of the new WA Museum Boola Bardip (Many Stories), project participants whose voices are included in the Forest of Voices exhibition are invited to share their stories with the public in conversation with artist Olga Cironis. This conversation leads the audience through Forest of Voices and explores this project in the
- [Call-out: PICA interdisciplinary lab](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/callout-pica-interdisciplinary-lab/) - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and the Australia Council for the Arts recognize the tumultuous year for the arts in 2020 and how independent artists have been affected in a multitude of ways, including opportunities to gather and connect in a global context. In 2021, PICA will host the first of a three-year artist
- [On Exactitude in Science by Alan Butler](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/on-exactitude-in-science/) - Presented in association with XR:WA 2020 On Exactitude in Science is a two screen video installation featuring a synchronized presentation of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1982) & Alan Butler’s Koyaanisgtav (2017). On Exactitude in Science takes its name from the Jorge Luis Borges short story, Del rigor en la ciencia (1946). This passage describes an ancient, fictional civilization
- [Bad Baby Jean](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bad-baby-jean-showing/) - ‘Round these parts, you don’t earn the name Bad Baby Jean, unless you’ve made a career out of being really, really bad.' Prison breaks, fisticuffs, a highway robbery, lonely deserts and wide-open roads...Bad Baby Jean takes all your favourite western cinematic moments and slices-and-dices them into a fast-paced theatrical adventure. A cardboard western noir performed live to audiences in
- [SMASH IT by Brook Andrew](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/smash-it/) - Brook Andrew’s video ​SMASH IT draws its title from ​the artist’s practice of ​agitating colonial archives in order to subvert and rewrite dominant narratives of the past. The image track of ​SMASH IT​ includes interviews, found film footage, reportage, activists’ video, ethnographic photographs, postcards and other cultural materials, drawn from both the artist’s own private
- [Brent Harrison](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/studio-artist-brent-harrison/) - During his residency at PICA, Brent Harrison will investigate the heteronormative language surrounding gay male homosexuality and how this translates to ideas of effeminacy and shame. Using the mediums of photography, sculpture and installation, Harrison will employ floral motifs and bouquets of flowers as camp affirmations to explore a more nuanced understanding of the relationship
- [PICA Salon Vernissage 2020](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/salon-vernissage-2020/) - Salon Vernissage is Perth’s signature art event. It’s a Gala like no other – a unique celebration of contemporary art, music, food, drink and fashion. Held annually as way to thank and acknowledge PICA’s vital supporters, the Salon Vernissage always evokes a sense of wonder and surprise, while offering opportunities for guests to either begin
- [Night School](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/night-school/) - This year, PICA will replace the usual Opening Night Party with a rousing finale to Hatched: National Graduate Show 2020. Night School is a special free event that will celebrate the value of arts and humanities education. Prepare yourself for an evening of entertainment with a few surprises, as well as the long-awaited announcement of
- [Forest of Voices by Olga Cironis](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/forest-of-voices/) - Through her much-anticipated solo exhibition, leading West Australian artist Olga Cironis extends an invitation to the public to anonymously share their own stories about intimacy, touch and connection. Gathered by the artist as audio recordings and presented as a sound installation, Forest of Voices gives form to a collective archive of voices. “Forest of Voices
- [Refracted Reality](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/refracted-reality/) - Curated by guest curator Anna Louise Richardson. PICA is pleased to present the significant group show Refracted Reality, curated by Perth based curator and artist Anna Louise Richardson, as our annual PICA Salon exhibition. This year the PICA Salon offers a curated selection of responses to the window as a motif or metaphor, a
- [Valentine](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/valentine-2/) - Presented by AWESOME Festival in association with PICA Help Valentine as she searches for her heart. Valentine is a clown and her best friend is her heart. She loves to spend time with her Grandpa, but Grandpa’s heart is running out of time, and there is nothing Valentine can do about it. Valentine is determined
- [Shifting Terrain](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shifting-terrain/) - An online professional development forum for emerging artists. Three diverse artists will speak about the trajectory of their own careers, focusing on how they navigated the arts world after graduating from university. Brisbane-based Dr. Rea Saunders, Melbourne-based Eugenia Lim and London-based Dr. Kate McMillan will share their experiences and how they developed their studio practice
- [Hatched 2020 Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2020-open-studio/) - Open Studios is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. To coincide with the exhibition Hatched: National Graduate Show 2020, Perth-based Hatched artists Saleheh Gholami, Annie Huang and Siahne Rogers have taken up residence in Studio
- [xhe (online)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/xhe-online/) - How do we share a touch despite its impossibility now? xhe is not a he, not a she, not an it. Pronounced ‘zhee’ or like ‘j’y’ in French, xhe is the pronoun for the possible, the queer or the multiple, a figure that moves between a Square and an Octopus. In Daniel Kok’s and Miho
- [Hatched 2020 Artists](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2020-artists-in-residence/) - Throughout August Hatched artists Saleheh Gholami, Annie Huang and Siahne Rogers will be in residence in Studio Two. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Annie Huang is a Chinese-Australian artist working with multimedia installations. Huang is completing a Master’s by research in Fine Arts as a recipient of the Australian Government RTP stipend scholarship at UWA. Her
- [KISS club 2020](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kiss-club-2020/) - The ever popular KISS club is back for its 10th year! KISS club 2020 Digital Pass The in-house version of KISS club 2020 has SOLD OUT. We are thrilled to release a digital pass for those who missed out on tickets and living in other regions. You can now watch the performances from the comfort
- [Hatched 2020 Artist Floor Talk](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2020-artist-floor-talk/) - Hatched Curatorial Fellow Miranda Johnson will be leading a conversation with four WA Hatched artists, to unpack their artworks and discuss their broader art practice. Annie Huang’s practice navigates a deeper understanding of the second-generation Chinese-Australian migrant identity, exploring the concept of home and belonging in a state of cultural dislocation. Daniel Kristjansson creates
- [Sensory Scavenger Hunt](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sensory-scavenger-hunt/) - Hatched 2020 artist Michelle Vine has collected and created things from around her home and backyard to touch and feel against her skin. Here is a list of sensations. Go on a scavenger hunt around your home, back yard, or local park. See if you can find an object for everything on this list! What
- [MAKE AT HOME | Matchstick light spectrum](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/make-a-matchstick-light-spectrum/) - During their studio residency at PICA, Astro Morphs developed a series of online art-making activities where art and science converge. Share your creations on social media with the hashtag #picaathome, and you could be featured on our socials! Overview Astro Morphs' productions and artworks are inspired by the biological world. Have fun creating a stop motion animation based
- [MAKE AT HOME | DNA fridge magnets](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/make-dna-fridge-magnets/) - During their studio residency at PICA, Astro Morphs developed a series of online art-making activities where art and science converge. Share your creations on social media with the hashtag #picaathome, and you could be featured on our socials! Overview Astro Morphs' productions and art works are inspired by biology. Have fun creating colourful fridge magnets, while
- [MAKE AT HOME | Animal Eye Mask](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/make-animal-eyes/) - During their studio residency at PICA, Astro Morphs developed a series of online art-making activities where art and science converge. Share your creations on social media with the hashtag #picaathome, and you might be featured on our socials! Overview Astro Morphs' productions and art works are inspired by biology. Have fun creating your own
- [Prototype Care Packages](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/prototype-care-packages/) - PICA has partnered with Prototype, Arcadia Films and the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane to provide you with Prototype Care Packages, a series of new video works from artists in isolation. In 2012 Curtis Taylor (Untitled (Uura), 2019) and Lily Hibberd made a video work that resonates now more than ever, The Phone Booth Project, a short
- [FLOCK #18](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/flock-18/) - FLOCK is a monthly forum for Perth (and now WA!) independent and freelance artists of all genres and career stages. FLOCK is now online and experimenting and evolving their style of virtual connection via practice lead workshops & rigorous facilitated conversation. // WORKSHOP // 1pm to 2.30pm Collaboratively presented by Janet Carter and Patrick Gunasekera.Janet and Patrick will work with
- [Hatched 2020 Opening Night Party | POSTPONED](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2020-opening-night-party/) - Due to measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in WA, this event has been postponed. Join us to celebrate the opening of Hatched National Graduate Show 2020! See the next generation of emerging artists across Australia and indulge in a selection of Perth’s hottest food trucks and live entertainment – save the date and
- [LINGUISTIC HARDCORE: Adventures in Art Writing](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/linguistic-hardcore-adventures-in-art-writing/) - Join the inaugural Perth Festival Visual Arts Writing Group for a discussion around what ‘art writing’ is and what it can offer to various audiences. Titled as an homage to the inaugural issue Maria Fusco’s journal of experimental artists’ writing, The Happy Hypocrite, this panel discussion explores the relationship between language and the art experience. The Visual Art
- [2020 Adelaide Tour](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/2020-adelaide-tour/) - Our valued PICA Donors are active supporters of the Arts and we look for ways to engage and extend their networks with artists, galleries and curators in Perth and across Australia. PICA has previously led tours to Adelaide, Naples and Taipei in the quest for exploring the best in contemporary arts, and we are planning
- [Tie Massage + Show Room | POSTPONED](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tie-massage-workshop-and-show-room/) - PICA and Strut Dance are seeking EOIs from artists to participate in a 4-day performance workshop with artists Luke George (VIC) and Daniel Kok (SG). Luke George and Daniel Kok will be visiting Perth to present their work, Bunny from 31 March – 4 April. Following the season, from 6 – 9 April they will
- [PICA After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-february2020/) - PICA After Dark returns for 3 Fridays this February! Start off your weekend right with PICA After Dark! Make the most of your Friday, grab a drink at the PICA Bar and join us in the galleries or performance space for a relaxed late-night cultural experience. WHAT'S ON? Galleries open late PICA Bar drink offers 'Chalk Talk' art
- [Emma Horvát & Ómra Caoimhe (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emma-and-omra-residency/) - Since 2016 Emma Horvát and Ómra Caoimhe have worked with concepts of time, archetypal history and relational experience. Collaboratively and individually, the artists deconstruct and re- contextualise objects and photographic material. A poignant part of Horvát and Caoimhe’s work departs from both artists’ singular dynamic relationships with trauma and care. Together the artist’s conceptualise their
- [Bunny | POSTPONED](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bunny/) - Presented by PICA & Strut Dance In order to unravel shared lines of connection, to suspend tension and to unleash collective desires, Daniel Kok and Luke George look to macramé, sailors’ knots, Chinese knots and rope bondage to weave together an interactive experience of collectivity. "Bunny" is a nickname given to the person being tied
- [Astro Morphs (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/astro-morphs-residency/) - Astro Morphs is a collaboration between Perth based artists Bianca Sharkey and James Doohan. Since 2016 the duo has operated under the pseudonyms Sox and Yow, working across performance, music, animation and video, they imagine the divergent evolutionary pathways of a pair of polymorphic life forms played out in a fictional extra-terrestrial molecular ecology. Drawing on
- [Summer Exhibitions 2020 Opening](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/summer-exhibitions-2020/) - Join us as we both welcome and celebrate three immersive exhibitions curated in association with Perth Festival. Immersive screen, virtual reality and gaming inspired experiences occupy the PICA galleries works with Thunderhead by Sydney-based Tina Havelock Stevens; Chalkroom by internationally renowned artist and musician Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang and Hudson Valley Ruins by New
- [Chaos Célèbre: Telling Your Story](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/chaos-celebre/) - Join Daley King, the creator and performer of Lipstuck, in an explorative workshop examining strategies to harness personal chaoses , your cause célèbre and manifest them as art. With a focus on deconstructing the status quo, and challenging hierarchical systems, this deep dive is designed for emerging art practitioners working at the intersection of identity,
- [PICA's FRINGE WORLD 2020 Program](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/picas-fringe-2020-program/) - Each year as part of FRINGE WORLD, PICA presents a bespoke program for the adventurous. In 2020, PICA welcomes 4 Western Australian artists with 4 brand new works across a colourful spectrum ranging from the gentle to the outrageous. Opening up its doors as a place for artists, audiences and communities, PICA will celebrate forms
- [Until It Runs Out](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/until-it-runs-out/) - Running on the Smell of an Oily Rag borrows from the commonly used Australian idiom which suggests a frugality of resources, money and fuel. To run on the smell of an oily rag here, is instead to contemplate burning out, but also burn outs, self care, but also self preservation through performed actions, shared oral
- [Transmission: Queer Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/transmission/) - Presented by PICA as part of FRINGE WORLD 2020 A work in development by Perth-based artist Janet Carter, Transmission is a place to explore queer desire and culture, under the banner of a fabulous town hall meeting. A counter-response to loss and the failure to transmit, with reference to the AIDS epidemic and the generational loss of
- [Lipstuck](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lipstuck/) - Presented by PICA as part of FRINGE WORLD 2020. Experience an intimate queer kaleidoscope, fusing live alchemy, participatory performance, and verbatim storytelling. Eclectic experimental artist Daley King lays bare the stories behind the lip shade, sharing the engrossing anecdotes and fascinating insights of a diverse community of humans. Vividly dissecting the zeitgeist of lipstick, Lipstuck examines
- [Slutdrop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/slutdrop/) - Presented by PICA as part of FRINGE WORLD 2020 No touching. No phones allowed. Please don't get your dick out. Slutdrop is a personal performance-documentary from an ex-stripper. A strut in six-inch heels through movies, music and the media's portrayal of what it means to work in the sex industry. Pop songs mix with periods in this
- [This is not personal](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/this-is-not-personal/) - Presented by PICA as part of FRINGE WORLD 2020 Have you ever been tempted to tell the checkout-chick your life story? Wish you had a 'do not disturb' sign for your work desk? Are you being pestered about not seeming yourself lately? Ever been asked "R U OK" and didn't know how to respond? This is not
- [Thunderhead](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/thunderhead/) - Presented in association with Perth Festival Sydney-based Tina Havelock Stevens has emerged as a leading figure in contemporary Australian video and performance. Her background as a documentary filmmaker and drummer from the post-punk music scene has a direct influence on her practice where she works predominantly in video, music, sound, experimental documentary and performance. Havelock Stevens’ moving
- [Chalkroom](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/chalkroom/) - Presented in association with Perth Festival Enter an ordinarily white gallery space to find the walls filled with gestural drawings, scrawled across all surfaces, reaching the ceiling. Don a virtual reality headset and step deeper into an immersive world, in which you journey through an enormous structure made of words, drawings and stories. Once you
- [Hudson Valley Ruins](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hudson-valley-ruins/) - Presented in association with Perth Festival Hudson Valley Ruins is a short narrative film produced entirely in the computer game The Sims 3. Using the conventions of the game, in which players simulate the lives of a modern family, Jacky Connolly has created a complete set, narrative and cast of characters. Hudson Valley Ruins tracks
- [A Tea Meditation Ceremony](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tea-meditation-ceremony/) - A zen experience with Tea Ceremony Masters. In collaboration with Buddha’s Light International Association of Western Australia, PICA presents A Tea Meditation Ceremony. Learn the art of meditation, the ceremony of tea, and the peaceful melodies of “Gu Zheng” – a traditional Chinese musical instrument complimenting the experience. Delve into this rare and intimate opportunity
- [PICA After Dark](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-after-dark-returns-2019/) - PICA After Dark returns for one night only! Start off your Friday night with PICA After Dark while you will be in the Perth Cultural Centre for the launch of the City of Perth Christmas lights trail! We’ll be keeping our doors open late to give you a one time after dark arts experience. WHAT'S
- [Curtis Taylor: Selected Screen Works and Q&A](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/curtis-taylor-screening-and-qanda/) - Raised in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Northwest WA, Martu man Curtis Taylor says his upbringing across the region allowed him to capture the stories of his people with photography and film and share them with community as well as those outside it. As part of his current exhibition Untitled (Uura), Curtis will be
- [Between Landscapes 在風景之間](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/between-landscapes/) - A festival of art and performance that honours the people and stories of Australia and Taiwan. tiny revolutions 15 October - 2 November tiny revolutions by pvi collective is a public residency based project that responds to the current global feeling of helplessness by offering a creative response to some of the world’s major challenges.
- [Grace Connors (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/grace-connors-residency/) - Running on the Smell of an Oily Rag borrows from the commonly used Australian idiom which suggests a frugality of resources, money and fuel. To run on the smell of an oily rag here, is instead to contemplate burning out, but also burn outs, self care, but also self preservation through performed actions, shared oral
- [In Conversation: Ashley Yihsin Chang and Yi-Chun Lo](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/in-conversation-with-yi-chun-lo/) - Installing Environment: Responding to Social, Industrial, & Economic Landscapes World economies and their impact on the cultures and landscapes we live in are progressively taking front and centre in news, current affairs, and especially the minds of artists. Yi-Chun Lo is a strong example - exploring these relationships and presenting her findings through depictions
- [Unfolding Acts 揭露行動](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/unfolding-acts/) - EXHIBITION EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! An exhibition curated by PICA Curator, Charlotte Hickson and PICA Guest Curator, Ashley Yihsin Chang that marks the 20th anniversary of the Charter of Mutual Friendship between the cities of Perth and Taipei, Unfolding Acts: New Art from Taipei and Perth brings together Western Australian and Taiwanese artists whose
- [Open Studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studios-september2019/) - The PICA Residency Program offers opportunities for artists to push the boundaries of their genre, and our current artists in residence have been no exception! Join us from 3pm to 4pm for Layli Rakhsha’s Open Studio entitled “Between Places”, where she will guide us through the techniques, triumphs and challenges of her creative process –
- [Untitled (Uura)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/untitled-uura/) - EXHIBITION EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! In recent years, Perth based Martu artist Curtis Taylor has emerged as one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. PICA is pleased to present his first solo exhibition, Untitled (Uura), which brings together multiple streams of his practice including sculpture, installation and film. Untitled (Uura) presents work made over a
- [Unfolding Acts Open Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/unfolding-acts-open-day/) - Get behind the scenes of Unfolding Acts exhibition with our program of accessible activities and talks. Meet the Artists: Morning Tea | 11am - 12pm A morning tea is a great way to start a weekend, but the best way is to join one at PICA with some incredible artists. Help us welcome our exhibiting artists and
- [Spring Exhibitions Opening Night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/spring-exhibitions-2019/) - Join us as we both welcome and celebrate two new exhibitions, Unfolding Acts – marking the 20th anniversary of the Charter of Mutual Friendship between the cities of Perth and Taipei, and Untitled (Uura) – a new solo exhibition from Perth based Martu artist Curtis Taylor. On this exciting night, we welcome the public to join us
- [歸屬 Gui Shu (Belong)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/歸屬-gui-shu-belong/) - WORLD PREMIERE | Presented by PICA and Performing Lines WA Through your eyes, I see myself 透過你的雙眼，我看見我自己 Come on a contemplative journey through the streets, suburbs and open spaces of Taipei and Perth. Devised by an extraordinary interdisciplinary team, each performance of 歸屬 Gui Shu (Belong) fuses dance, music, sound and video projections live on stage. The
- [tiny revolutions](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tiny-revolutions/) - Presented by PICA & pvi collective An epic think and do tank of tiny proportions tiny revolutions is a public residency-based project that responds to the current global feeling of helplessness by offering a creative response to some of the world’s major challenges. Members of the public are invited to submit a large issue that
- [ROFLSHALBOWCO (Rolling On The Floor Laughing So Hard A Little Bit Of Wee Comes Out)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/roflshalbowco/) - Presented by The 2019 AWESOME Festival Gratuitous, ridiculous, hilarious, and possibly hazardous, Melbourne's maestros of children’s comedy return to the 2019 Awesome Festival! Packed with insane, interactive, and irreverent escapades, this show will make you R.O.F.L.S.H.A.L.B.O.W.C.O (Rolling on the floor laughing so hard a little bit of wee comes out). In 2009, they stormed onto the children’s comedy scene
- [Tetris](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tetris/) - Presented by The 2019 AWESOME Festival Witness four performers intertwine and connect, to bring this classic video game to life right in front of your eyes! This unique physical theatre work uses strength, agility and acrobatic skill to mimic and reimagine moves from not only the cross generational game ‘Tetris’ but also ‘Twister’ and the
- [CATCH!](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/catch/) - Presented by the 2019 AWESOME Festival CATCH! is an action-packed, interactive adventure for little ones, their families and their friends that uses balls, racquets and all things sporty to tell a story about a young girl learning how to play, make friends and overcoming her nervous fears about sport. Circus, theatre, and puppetry meet in this
- [Alana Hunt (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alana-hunt-residency/) - While in residence at PICA at North Metropolitan TAFE Hunt will acess historical archives in search of documents and photographs connected to her home in the north of WA, seeking to understand historical and contemporary attitudes and perceptions held towards the settlement, development and industrialisation of the land and resources of North Western Australia. Drawing
- [Noémie Huttner-Koros (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/noemie-huttner-koros-residency/) - Led by emerging performance-maker and interdisciplinary artist Noemie Huttner-Koros, the Trouble Makers brings together Western Australian artists from a diversity of artistic disciplines, to explore questions of community and solidarity against a backdrop of eco-anxiety driven by climate change. The Trouble Makers ask the question of how we can create community and build hope in
- [Mass Assembly: Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mass-assembly-for-climate-action/) - Presented by Arts & Cultural Workers for Climate Action Calling all WA arts and cultural workers, organisations and institutions committed to immediate action on climate change. This meeting is for those that want to join together as a community and explore ways we can act now, including participating in the upcoming Global Strike for Climate Action
- [Whose name I do not yet know (Engaging Through Responsible Uncertainty)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/whose-name-i-do-not-yet-know/) - A morning workshop with Agatha Gothe-Snape Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art at The University of Western Australia are pleased to offer the opportunity to attend a workshop facilitated by Agatha Gothe-Snape on Friday 26 July, 9am-1pm. This workshop is open to artists and performers and will be a morning of
- [Layli Rakhsha (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/layli-rakhsha/) - Project: Between places Layli Rakhsha’s studio research explores how home can be defined by personal experiences, social and cultural relationships and attachments to a particular place. She often uses screen-printing as a method to express her feelings and ideas about migration and diaspora. She recently presented her solo exhibition Seven moments of the olive tree
- [KISS club 2019](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kiss-club-2019/) - Pucker up! Perth’s hottest performance club returns. The ever popular KISS club is back, co-curated by PICA and pvi collective. Originally created by Sydney based artist Karen Therese and gifted to pvi collective, KISS club is a performance event for ideas in development, featuring emerging and established artists across live performance practice. Selected artists will
- [An Illustrated Lecture with Nicholas Mangan](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/illustrated-lecture-with-mangan/) - An Illustrated Lecture with Nicholas Mangan | Termites Economies Nicholas Mangan’s work challenges us to question the histories embedded in objects, structures, and documents of human culture. How often do we consider the effects of human activity on the natural environment? Mangan – one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists – calls for us to interrogate
- [PICA 30 GALA](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-30-gala/) - In 2019 PICA turns 30 and we are thrilled to kick off our celebrations with the PICA 30 Gala, an event to celebrate the visionaries, artists and supporters that have shaped our remarkable organisation. PICA 30 Gala is a cocktail party, an evening of reconnecting, and a campaign for growing support. Tickets are available to PICA
- [Artist Floor Talk with Agatha Gothe-Snape](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/artist-floor-talk-agatha-gothe-snape/) - Trying to Find Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair is a celebration of hidden stories. Artist Agatha Gothe-Snape has followed the thread of histories from work in the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art at the University of Western Australia and has gained a unique and vital insight into Australia's only public collection of women's art. Join
- [Winter Exhibitions Opening Night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/winter-exhibitions-2019/) - Get rugged up for a cosy winter opening night as we warmly welcome two new exhibitions into the PICA Galleries: Termite Economies (Phase One) by Nicholas Mangan and Trying to Find Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair by Agatha Gothe-Snape with the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art. With guest speaker Helen Carroll, Manager, Wesfarmers Arts. Termite
- [Waangkiny Yira (Speaking Up)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/waangkiny-yira/) - PICA welcomes Perth Nyoongar poet and performer, Daniel Hansen as he leads Poetic Reflections and the Waangkiny Yira Wordshop as part of NAIDOC week 2019. Join us for a collaboration of culture where spoken word meets and interacts with indigenous contemporary art. Under this year’s NAIDOC theme of ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’, it is also an
- [Women in Art: Then & Now](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/women-in-art/) - An intergenerational discussion. In response to Trying to Find Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair, leading female art makers and industry voices discuss the history of women’s art and the arrival into the present. Join us for this critical panel exploring where we have come from, where we are, and where we need to go. PICA
- [Simon Pericich (VIC)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/simon-pericich/) - Simon Pericich’s hysterical, dark brand of makeshift art production is concerned with the terrifying perception that humanity is irrationally selfish and detrimental. Traversing large-scale installation, video and image, his nihilistic dystopias act like an evolving epitaph and harbinger for a future that seems out of the control of its population. Sometimes stemming from the autobiographical, sometimes
- [Trying to Find Comfort in An Uncomfortable Chair](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/trying-to-find-comfort/) - AGATHA GOTHE-SNAPE WITH THE CRUTHERS COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S ART With works and contributions from: Elise Blumann, Penny Bovell, Angela Brennan, Susanna Castleden, Penny Coss, Janet Dawson, Helen Eager, Rosalie Gascoigne, Helen Grace, Giles Hohnen, Narelle Jubelin, Eveline Kotai, Maria Kozic, Mei Swan Lim, Lily Napanangka and Peter Jupurrula, Elizabeth Newman, Ann Newmarch, Michelle Nikou, Miriam
- [Termite Economies (Phase One)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/termite-economies/) - As a starting point for this exhibition, Nicholas Mangan looks at historical research undertaken by the CSIRO into the activity of termites in the hope that the behaviour of these industrious insects would assist with the identification of gold deposits and lead to increased efficiency in gold exploration. Mangan combines footage he filmed on location
- [Sheets of Sound](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sheets-of-sound/) - Presented by PICA and Tura Sheets of Sound is the latest solo project from award-winning percussionist Louise Devenish. Featuring two new commissions composed especially for Devenish by Annie Hui-Hsin Hseih and Matthias Schack-Arnott, Sheets of Sound diversifies the sonic possibilities of metal, paper, plastic, skin, traditional percussion instruments and electronics. This tactile sound world is
- [Hatched 2019 Open Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2019-open-day/) - Get behind the scenes of Hatched with our program of accessible tours and talks. Hatched Tactile Tour | 12.15pm - 1pm A free guided tour for visually impaired people to explore contemporary art through informed discussion, audio description and by touching selected objects and materials from the exhibition. This tactile tour is facilitated by DADAA, WA’s leading arts
- [A Call To Dance](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-call-to-dance/) - It’s your move. A Call to Dance is a participatory dance work that’s all about you. Join acclaimed choreographer and dancer Amrita Hepi for a yarn about heritage, belonging, public expression and cultural authenticity. Together you’ll have fun and open conversation about some big issues facing us all, and come up with a small movement of
- [Hatched 2019 Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2019-opening-night-party/) - It's that time of the year again! Join us to celebrate the opening of Hatched National Graduate Show 2019! See the next generation of emerging artists across Australia and indulge in a selection of Perth’s hottest food trucks and live entertainment – save the date and don’t miss out on this epic PICA party. From
- [Jupiter Orbiting](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jupiter-orbiting/) - Presented by PICA Body politics + sci-fi Independent creator and performer of Kalkadoon heritage, Joshua Pether, takes us on a sci-fi adventure that opens up a new world filled with surreal and fantastical realities – questioning perceptions of what is real and what is not. In his second solo work, Pether combines movement, sound
- [i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/stars/) - Presented by PICA and Rachel Arianne Ogle A meditation on time, perspective and the moment of death. In this cinematic installation of improvised light and sound, a single human body becomes an abstracted focal point — a disembodied drishti within an unfolding science fiction odyssey. The work explores states of transition and the synergy between light, sound
- [Solo Stage: Here Now](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/solo-stage-here-now/) - In 2019, WAAPA's adventurous young theatre-makers throw down the gauntlet to create and perform original solo works inspired by what matters to them, right HERE, right NOW! The works will be shaped by contemporary performance practice to boldly comment on what the world needs, now and for its future. Expect personal, political, philosophical, intimate and
- [FLOCK #9](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/flock-9/) - FLOCK is a monthly forum for Perth’s independent and freelance artists to share practice and conversation with each other. This April is hosted by PICA. WORKSHOP What does sound look like? Reframing how we listen to sound, percussionist Louise Devenish leads participants through exercises and discussions exploring the links between the visual and the aural.
- [Self Care in the Arts #2](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/self-care-in-the-arts-2/) - Sometimes, working in the arts and practicing self-care do not feel synonymous. This friendly forum aims to equip artists and arts workers with tools to be healthier, happier (maybe?) and a little more hydrated. Even if you don’t work in the arts sector, you are absolutely welcome to attend and participate as you please. Featuring
- [Still Here | Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/still-here-artist-talks/) - Join six emerging creatives share their thoughts and experiences from the Still Here LGBTQIA+ Lab. Still Here is a lab which amplifies the visibility of LGBTQIA+ artists in Western Australia, and offered developmental opportunities for six emerging practitioners. Participants were invited to experience and embody the practice of acclaimed transgender artist Cassils during their performance,
- [Still Here | Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/still-here-open-studio/) - Join Still Here Lab artists in residence to discuss their residency experience and projects. Explore the processes and works-in-progress of the Still Here LGBTQIA+ Lab participants. Six local artists were selected to work beside internationally acclaimed transgender artist Cassils, in partnership with PICA and Perth Festival. Engagement with the visiting artist served as a launching point for
- [Spectral Arrows](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/spectral-arrows/) - Marco Fusinato is an artist and musician whose exhibition LOWER POWER will be displayed at PICA from 10 February until 21 April 2019. Alongside the exhibition, Fusinato will perform Spectral Arrows. Spectral Arrows is an ongoing series of improvised long-duration performances for guitar and mass amplification. First performed at Glasgow International (2012), this monumental aural sculpture
- [Exhibition Opening | Cassils and Marco Fusinato](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/opening-cassils-and-fusinato/) - Join us to celebrate the opening of two huge solo exhibitions presented in association with Perth Festival. ALCHEMIC by CASSILS Internationally acclaimed transgender artist Cassils’ first exhibition in Australia features video, photography and sculpture, as well as a presentation of their iconic performance, Becoming an Image. With breathtaking skill and finesse, the artist uses their
- [Curmudgeons, Narcissists and Killjoys: A Devising Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-devising-workshop/) - Join Creator of The Talk, Mish Grigor in a workshop that explores strategies for making devised theatre. Participants will discuss together how to begin making from scratch, and how to follow an idea to its logical conclusion. Mish will discuss the challenges of connecting audiences with difficult protagonists and tackling taboo through theatre. Designed for
- [Speak Percussion Workshops](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/speak-percussion-workshops/) - Join Artistic Director of Speak Percussion, Eugene Ughetti for two opportunities to explore the creation of Polar Force. Behind the Scenes of Polar Force Wednesday 23 January, 10am – 12pm Suitable for: artists interested in sound, music, installation, performance An extended artist talk and live demonstration into how this immersive sound installation performance was created.
- [Audible Edge 2019](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/audible-edge-2019/) - Now in its third edition, the Audible Edge festival features a rich program of performances, participatory workshops and discussions delivered by international sound art luminaries, emergent underground wonders, and brilliant local experimentalists. PICA is proud to be hosting the first night of Audible Edge in the PICA Performance Space on 27 January. Within Audible Edge’s
- [Audible Edge: Field Recording & Electronic Composition Masterclass](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/masterclass/) - Facilitated by renowned minimalist composer and sound artist France Jobin, this two-day workshop will immerse participants in the composition of music using field recordings and different sound processing techniques. - Day 1: Listening & recording Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 10am Participants will explore the urban environment through sound walks and recording. Recording techniques both
- [Audible Edge: iMprov Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/improv-workshop/) - Join us for a participatory workshop featuring the German-based duo Superimpose (Matthias Müller and Christian Marien) as guest directors. Bring your instrument and collaborate with Superimpose and a host of local improvisers on developing skills for creating music spontaneously together. All ages, levels of experience and degrees of involvement in experimental music are welcome. This
- [Q & A with Jo Lloyd](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jo_lloyd/) - 1. Your practice is extensive as a dancer and choreographer, presenting work across New York, Japan, Hong Kong and within Australian festivals such as Dance Massive, Next Wave, the Biennale of Sydney, Liveworks and Dark MOFO. How did you arrive here? What were your influential experiences as an emerging artist? After graduating from the VCA I
- [Collaborations Showing: Jo Lloyd & Anny Mokotow](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/collaborations-showing/) - Sharing the belief that dramaturgy is a practice inherent in the processes of production and stimulated by the dancer as much as the choreographer, Jo Lloyd and Anny Mokotow impart methodologies developed from Lloyd’s recent choreographic interrogations. In Lloyd’s work Confusion for Three, hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unraveling
- [Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-dec/) - Open Studios is PICA's most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. Join us for an intimate discussion with resident artists, Rebecca Rigs-Bennett (WA), Drew Pettifer (VIC) and Christoven Tan (SGP). Rebecca is exploring an intimate sensory performance piece
- [Aperitivo with Eugenio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/aperitivo-with-eugenio/) - Please join us to celebrate and reflect on a tremendous year here at PICA. We want to thank you for your continued support in the best way we know how! Enjoy a PICA spritz with PICA Senior Curator Eugenio Viola and say 'salute' to 2018, thanks to CAMPARI. Please RSVP below.
- [LOWER POWER](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lower-power/) - WA PREMIERE Lower Power, presented in association with Perth Festival and curated by PICA Senior Curator Eugenio Viola, features new works from Melbourne based Marco Fusinato’s Infinitives series. These are a selection of images sourced from the international mass media over the last ten years in which a protagonist is brandishing a rock in the decisive
- [ALCHEMIC](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alchemic/) - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Cassils has achieved international recognition for their rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture. Through a practice spanning more than 15 years Cassils has ‘tackled the complicated politics of transgender visibility and its intertwinement with the politics of form’ (Artforum). Cassils’ first exhibition in Australia features video, photography and
- [Becoming an Image](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/becoming-an-image/) - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Transgender artist Cassils is renowned for a rigorous engagement with the body as a form of social sculpture. Their work juxtaposes the immediacy, urgency and ephemerality of live performance against constructed acts for camera. Becoming an Image is a piece that works at the intersection of performance, photography and sculpture. Originally conceived as
- [Lé Nør [the rain]](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/le-nor/) - WORLD PREMIERE From the multi-award winning team behind It's Dark Outside, The Irresistible, New Owner and Alvin Sputnik comes a deeply romantic visual extravaganza that will reignite your love of humanity. A faux foreign film performed live each night, Perth theatre makers The Last Great Hunt combine cinematic mastery and theatrical magic to tell interwoven stories
- [Open Studio: Emily Hornum](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-emily-hornum/) - Open Studios is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. Join us for an intimate discussion with Emily Hornum (WA), a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Fremantle, Western Australia. Hornum works across a range of media
- [The Talk](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-talk/) - WA PREMIERE Presented by PICA as part of FRINGE WORLD 2019 “Funny, toe-curlingly frank, and immensely insightful” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (UK). My brother came out after an episode of ‘The L Word’. As the credits closed on Carmen going down on a leggy blonde in a nightclub, he said, “I’m like that. I do
- [Polar Force](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/polar-force/) - WA PREMIERE Presented by PICA and Tura as part of FRINGE WORLD 2019 “Virtuosic, adventurous” – New York Times “Breathtakingly impressive” - The West Australian Imagine being on the Antarctic ice shelf, housed inside a temporary shelter on the coldest, windiest, and driest continent on earth. Polar Force is a hyper-realistic sound adventure to the
- [Self Care in the Arts #1](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/self-care-in-the-arts/) - As part of Mental Health Week, PICA will be hosting an interactive and friendly forum that equips artists and arts administrators with handy tools to look after their mental health. This free event offers hands-on advice from artists and mentors in our local community including Kelli McCluskey (chief executive artist at pvi collective), Stuart Halusz (who
- [An Illustrated Lecture with Justin Shoulder](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/justin-shoulder-lecture/) - Justin Shoulder is an artist working in performance, sculpture, video and nightlife/community events production. His main body of work Phasmahammer is an ecology of alter personas based on queered ancestral myth. These creatures are embodied through hand crafted costumes and prosthesis and animated by their own gestural languages. Shoulder uses his body and craft to
- [HyperPrometheus: Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hyperprometheus-artist-talks/) - Featuring Australian and international artists, HyperPrometheus re-contextualises Frankenstein for the new millennium within the realms of contemporary and biological arts. Monsters and monstrous creatures abound, in works that test our understanding of what it is to be human, living, natural, functional, valid or valued. On Saturday 20 October, you can hear directly from two HyperPrometheus artists,
- [Beyond the Body: An Illustrated Lecture with Kira O'Reilly](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/beyond-the-body/) - Kira O’Reilly will be visiting Perth as a speaker at the Quite Frankly symposium and as an exhibiting artist in HyperPrometheus, a new exhibition presented by PICA and SymbioticA opening on 19 October. Kira O’Reilly is an artist currently based in Helsinki where she leads a pilot masters programme in in Ecology and Contemporary Performance
- [Exhibition Opening: HyperPrometheus](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/opening-hyperprometheus/) - Join us on 19 October from 6.30pm to celebrate the opening of HyperPrometheus: The Legacy of Frankenstein. The exhibition will be opened by Susan Rosser, Professor of Synthetic Biology at the University of Edinburgh. Featuring Australian and international artists, HyperPrometheus re-contextualises Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus for the new millennium within the realms of contemporary
- [歸屬 Gui Shu (Belong) | CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/歸屬-gui-shu-belong-creative-development/) - 歸屬 Gui Shu (Belong) is an immersive performance experience currently in development combining sound, film and choreography. From the laneways, malls and teeming streets of Taipei to the rivers, bushscapes and suburbia of Western Australia, this is a series of arresting portraits of people and place, reflecting how culture and space shape us. An intercultural
- [Drew Pettifer (VIC)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/drew-pettifer/) - Dr Drew Pettifer is an artist and academic who currently lectures in Art History and Theory and the Honours Program at RMIT University. Pettifer’s art practice explores themes of intimacy, gender, sexuality and the politics of desire using photography, video, installation and performance. During this residency supported by North Metropolitan TAFE, Pettifer will continue research
- [Christoven Tan (SGP)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/christoven-tan-sgp/) - Christoven Tan is a Singaporean contemporary composer and musician whose practice seeks to redefine classical viola performance and the image of the Artist. He performs in solos, ensembles and orchestras in public and commercial galleries and artist-run spaces in London, Lithuania, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Spain and Singapore. Tan will develop a multi-layered performance that expands
- [Rebecca Riggs-Bennett (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rebecca-riggs-bennett/) - Elsewhere/Rebecca (Rebecca Riggs-Bennett) is an emerging electronic music producer, sound artist and composer for different forms of performance. Her music is an almost otherworldly collection of ambient rhythms and dreamlike beats that playfully meet her own sound design and soundscape work. Rebecca’s practice combines sound, music and audio with live performance to create alternative, unconventional
- [Emily Hornum (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emily-hornum-wa/) - Emily Hornum is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Fremantle, Western Australia. Hornum works across a range of media including analogue photography, video and installation art. Her current project The world is full of hams is a video work created from 90s advertisements and TV footage from found VHS tapes. She has exhibited her
- [What if this was the only world she knew?](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/what-if-this-was-the-only-world-she-knew/) - Kira O’Reilly’s practice employs performance, drawing, makings, biotechnical practices and writing to consider speculative recon gurations around The Body. She writes, teaches, mentors and collaborates with humans of various kinds, technologies and non-humans of numerous divergences including mosses, spiders, the sun, pigs, cell cultures, micro- organisms, bicycles, rivers, landscapes, rocks, trees, shoes, food, books, air,
- [Confusion For Three](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/confusion-for-three/) - WA PREMIERE Unleash the confusion. From celebrated Australian choreographer Jo Lloyd, Confusion for Three is a thrilling dance encounter with explosive physicality, live music and tour de force performances that asks us to surrender to the state of confusion for ultimate revelation. Hypnotic tension is generated by three dancers as they negotiate a progressively unravelling
- [POSTPONED: Unspoken](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/unspoken/) - Due to unforeseen circumstances, this exhibition has regrettably been postponed. “I use and abuse art to communicate and create dialogue, to make sense of the world, even rage against it.” - Olga Cironis Olga Cironis is a WA-based multidisciplinary artist working in installation and performance. Informed by her Greek, Czech and Australian heritage, Cironis investigates
- [HyperPrometheus: The Legacy of Frankenstein](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hyperprometheus/) - HyperPrometheus commemorates the 200th anniversary of the publishing of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). Considered by some to be the first science fiction novel, Frankenstein is both a celebration and warning of the seductive powers and unforeseen outcomes of scientific advancement. It uncannily predicted a world in which humans are able to
- [Callout: Workshop with Kira O'Reilly](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kira-oreilly-lab/) - KIRA O’REILLY WORKSHOP: PERFORMING WITH NON HUMAN OTHERS "O’Reilly’s commitment to creativity and experimentation have resulted in a significant and sustained practice that has made her one of the most important artists working with the body – in all its iterations and complications – today." * PICA is seeking EOIs from artists to participate in
- [StickMan / miniStickMan](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/stickman/) - StickMan / miniStickMan is an interactive installation created by HyperPrometheus artist Stelarc. It uses an algorithm to operate a full-body robotic exoskeleton ('StickMan'). Insert your own looping choreography by moving the limbs of the miniature robot ('miniStickMan') and pressing the play button, to see 'StickMan' come to life. The physicality of the performance is flattened and
- [Sacha Barker (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sacha-barker/) - Sacha Barker’s art practice seeks to extend understandings of traditional art media. Her handmade textile works and installations use humble materials to explore concepts of narrative, personal history and socio-cultural meanings. Barker’s slow, laboured practice exists in direct contrast with expanding forms of digital production and consumption, her attention to detail amplifying connections between ‘the
- [Yao Jui-Chung (TWN)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yao-jui-chung/) - Yao Jui-Chung is a researcher, lecturer, curator and artist based in Taipei whose broad practice incorporates photography, installation and painting. Yao is known for projects that studiously document built urban environments and investigate the social and political foundations on which they are constructed. Mirage is a project that began in 2010 in collaboration with a
- [The Communication Series #3](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/communication-series-3/) - Upstairs, our Westend Gallery showcases Amalia Pica's first solo exhibition in Australia, please open hurry, with new and recent works exploring the techniques, potential and shortcomings of communication. On Saturday 22 September you are invited to join us for a Beginner's guide to AUSLAN. Beginners AUSLAN 2pm - 4pm Performance space Learn how to communicate visually
- [The Communication Series #2](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/communication-series-2/) - From August to October, PICA will be transformed with two new solo exhibitions. Our Central Gallery will house A Self Potrait by Khaled Sabsabi. This is his most significant exhibition in Australia to date and is informed by Sufi spirituality, his own experience of moving between communities and geopolitical factors. Upstairs, the Westend Gallery will
- [The Listies Make You LOL](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-listies-make-you-lol/) - Alien attacks, toilet paper guns, spew, the rudest word in the world and the most disgusting pair of undies you have ever seen in your entire life. The Listies Make you LOL! is a raucous, unruly hour guaranteed to have the whole family (even dads) LOLing, ROFLing and ROFLSHALBOWCOing.* (*Rolling On the Floor Laughing So
- [Valentine](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/valentine/) - WORLD PREMIERE To find your heart, you have to follow it. Join Valentine on a journey through endless bedsheets, and magical shadows as she searches for her heart. Like a story book coming to life before your eyes, Valentine is a visually stimulating show that uses a combination of clowning and interactive shadow puppetry to explore loss
- [Cheeky Monkeys](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/cheeky-monkeys/) - WORLD PREMIERE Cheeky Monkeys - A Pint-Sized Theatre Project is a platform for children to let loose their ideas. This experiment in theatre making relinquishes all creative decisions to young writers and directors. Children aged 9-12 direct two adult actors in short plays written by year 9 students from the Specialist Visual and Performing Arts program
- [Four Go Wild in Wellies](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/four-go-wild-in-wellies/) - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE The 2018 AWESOME Festival presents Four Go Wild in Wellies. Four Go Wild in Wellies is a playful look at how friendships are built, broken and mended – a whimsical adventure featuring tents that have a life of their own, bobble hats, and of course, lots of fun in wellies! A brand-new show for
- [An Illustrated Lecture with Yao Jui-Chung](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yao-jui-chung-lecture/) - Yao Jui-Chung is a researcher, lecturer, curator and artist based in Taipei whose broad practice incorporates photography, installation and painting. Yao is known for projects that studiously document built environments and investigate the social and political foundations on which they are constructed. During his residency in Studio Zero at PICA, Yao will explore Perth's metropolitan
- [Howl Lab Artists](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/howl-lab-artists/) - Rhiannon Peterson Rhiannon is a performance maker and lighting designer. Her current practice involves creating form bending, visually inventive performance works which explore the fragmented and ambiguous nature of our reality, and our experience within it. Rhiannon recently developed a drag work Jerry as part of Kiss Club 2018 with pvi collective and PICA. Earlier this year she premiered visual
- [The Communication Series #1](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/communication-series/) - From August to October, PICA will be transformed with two new solo exhibitions. Our Central Gallery will house A Self Potrait by Khaled Sabsabi. This is his most significant exhibition in Australia to date and is informed by Sufi spirituality, his own experience of moving between communities and geopolitical factors. Since the late 1980s Sabsabi
- [An Illustrated Lecture with Amalia Pica](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/illustrated-lecture-amalia-pica/) - Join internationally acclaimed, Argentinian-born artist Amalia Pica for an illustrated lecture ahead of her exhibition, please open hurry at PICA. Amalia Pica has a longstanding interest in language, comprehension and misunderstanding. These interests led her to undertake a Gashaka Primate Project artistic residency in Nigeria in 2014 where she observed the lives and single tool use of chimpanzees.
- [Greater Together Banquet](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/greater-together-banquet/) - You are invited to donate to PICA and join us at the Greater Together Banquet from 6.30pm and Late Night Party from 9.00pm til late. Greater Together is a live art fundraising party at PICA. For one night only Greater Together transforms the PICA building with a collision of art, party culture and shared experiences.
- [Amalia Pica & Khaled Sabsabi Exhibition Opening](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-sabsabi-exhibition-opening/) - Join us to celebrate the opening of please open hurry by Amalia Pica and A Self Portrait by Khaled Sabsabi. Amalia Pica explores the techniques, potential, and shortcomings of communication between different species, while Khaled Sabsabi delves into the migrant experience to promote cultural awareness and acceptance.
- [Greater Together](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/greater-together-2/) - WE ARE GREATER TOGETHER WHEN WE PARTY TOGETHER PICA is throwing a curated party for everyone – the enthusiasts already up close and admirers standing at a distance, long-time donors and those curious about what we do. For one night only Greater Together will transform the PICA building with a collision of art, party culture
- [please open hurry](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/please-open-hurry/) - With a series of new commissioned works, Amalia Pica explores the techniques, potential, and shortcomings of communication between different species. The project is a continuation of Pica’s longstanding consideration of language, comprehension, misunderstanding, translation, and listening. Through sculpture, photography, installation, performance and video, Pica’s work investigates how we communicate beyond the barriers of language. Born
- [Artefact](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/artefacts/) - WA PREMIERE A funeral for obsolete technology Artefact commemorates the mysterious phenomenon of brand disappearance from Blackberry, to Nokia to Atari. It is a tribute to the immortal consumer icons we have internationally adored, and the intimate and fickle ways we worship them. Originally commissioned for the International Prize for Live Art, the performance and
- [Howl](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/howl/) - WA PREMIERE Art controversy on parade Howl is a performance at the intersection of parade, protest and procession, starring a sculpture of Captain Cook, thousands of sunflower seeds and a killer whale named Tilikum. A requiem that is unquestionably queer, arguably dangerous and probably obscene. Performed by three women. Scored by Mozart himself. Created by Willoh
- [Stories From Her](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/stories-from-her/) - In celebration of NAIDOC week, PICA and Centre for Stories bring you a storytelling event on the emancipation and empowerment of Aboriginal women in response to Hatched artist Mandy Quadrio’s work Holes in History, which presents an untethered colonialist view of history in which Indigenous philosophies are valued and a sense of renewal evident. Facilitated
- [HOWL: Artist Lab Callout](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/howl-artist-lab-callout/) - HOWL ARTIST LAB: LOCAL PERFORMER EXPRESSION OF INTEREST PICA is seeking EOIs from Perth-based artists to join a performance lab as part of Howl, a live performance work by Aphids, presented at PICA on 21, 27 and 28 July 2018. Artists who have a strong interest in experimental performance, site-specificity and socially engaged practice are
- [Hatched Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-studio-events/) - Hatched Open Studios is PICA's most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. Join us for an intimate discussion with Hatched resident artists, Elham Eshraghian (WA), Sacha Barker (WA) and Kate Bohunnis (SA). Elham’s work explores the concept
- [Cardboard Carpentry](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/cardboard-carpentry/) - Join our Hatched Artist in Resident Sacha Barker on a journey of creating with cardboard! Cardboard carpentry is a term coined to describe the crafting of cardboard as if it were wood. This hands-on building workshop is perfect for young artists and inventors who want to become apprentice cardboard carpenters! On display at
- [Stitch & Bitch: A Quilting Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quilting-workshop/) - Join Eric C, one of the 2018 Hatched artists, and her mother Linda to learn introductory patchwork and hand quilting. Unstitch barriers around craft and inherited identity through considered conversation and mindfulness. Basic materials provided, starting you off on a hand pieced 9 patch block. The skills learned will provide you with the foundations for
- [Hatched Open Day 2018](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-open-day/) - An afternoon that connects Australia’s most talented emerging artists with local audiences and peers and professionals from around the country. Hatched Performance 1. I miss when I had a good time made things and had laughter Yuval Rosinger / 12 – 2pm PICA Administration 4 (Education Studio) Yuval Rosinger orchestrates performances that examine the anxieties
- [Tactile Tour of Hatched 2018](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tactile-tour-of-hatched-2018/) - This free guided tour allows people who are blind or vision impaired to explore contemporary art through informed discussion and by touching selected objects and materials from the Hatched National Graduate Show 2018. Companions and carers welcome.
- [An Illustrated Lecture with Professor Chu Teh-I](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/an-illustrated-lecture-with-professor-chu-teh-i/) - The esteemed Professor Chu Teh-I, formerly the Director of the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan will talk about contemporary museum strategies and exhibition programs, as well as his experience with the museum’s international engagement initiatives in recent years. His talk will cover the Kuandu Biennale, the One Piece Room, The Masterpiece Room, the Kuandu
- [Reflections – Make Your Own Kaleidoscope](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reflections-make-your-own-kaleidoscope/) - Inspired by Kimsooja’s everlasting examination of the dualism of light and surface on display at PICA, join artist and designer Phoebe Tran in a rainbow filled workshop where you will create your own DIY kaleidoscope to illuminate your world.
- [Kimsooja Art Walk](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kimsooja-art-walk/) - Join arts writer and South Korea travel enthusiast, Caroline Forsberg for a tour that sews together Kimsooja’s exhibiting works in Perth. Meet in the sunny Urban Orchard before moving onto the Art Gallery of Western Australia where you’ll be taken into the Screen Space to view Kimsooja’s multimedia installation Sewing into walking. Next up it’s over to
- [Hatched Canvass – Alumni in Conversation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-canvass/) - The Hatched: National Graduate Show maps the trends and concerns of Australia’s next generation of emerging contemporary artists. It is an eagerly anticipated annual survey of the newest artistic practices to keep an eye on. Whether you are a student, a recent graduate or curious about the doors contemporary art opens, come join us as
- [Hatched Opening Night Party 2018](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2018-opening-night-party/) - Join us to celebrate the opening of Hatched 2018! See the next generation of emerging art across Australia and indulge in a selection of Perth’s hottest food trucks and live entertainment – save the date and don't miss out on this epic PICA party. From painting, sculpture and drawing, to installation, video, and sound work, Hatched:
- [Diversity KPOP Dance Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/diversity-kpop-dance-workshop/) - PICA loves South Korea's electrifying renewal of pop culture so we have teamed up with Diversity to bring you a fun and intuitive KPOP dance workshop to develop (or show off) your own style. Get together with your friends to learn a routine and flaunt your moves to an upbeat tune. Please note this workshop
- [Bottari Bag Workshop - CANCELLED](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bottari-bag-design-workshop/) - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO LOW NUMBERS Artist Phoebe Tran aka MTFOLD makes ethical and bespoke linen and leather bags and will help you design, construct and decorate your own 'Bottari' Bag – inspired by Kimsooja's bottari (Korean for 'bundles') in our current exhibition Zone of Nowhere. Please bring a soft colourful fabric
- [Zone of Nowhere on the streets of Perth](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/zone-of-nowhere-on-the-streets-of-perth/) - Zone of Nowhere at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is the first Australian solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed, South Korean-born and New York based multidisciplinary artist Kimsooja. The exhibition runs from 17 February to 25 April. It extends beyond the walls of PICA throughout the Perth Festival period until 4 March, with Kimsooja’s
- [Zone of Nowhere](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/zone-of-nowhere/) - Zone of Nowhere is the first Australian solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed, South Korean-born and New York based multidisciplinary artist Kimsooja. For more than 30 years, Kimsooja has centred her work around sensitive cultural and political issues and in particular those surrounding migration and displacement. Through installation, performance, sculpture, video and photography, she investigates the
- [KISS club 2018](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kiss-club-2/) - Pucker up! Perth’s hottest performance club returns. The ever popular KISS club is back, co-curated by PICA and pvi collective. Originally created by Sydney based artist Karen Therese and gifted to pvi collective, KISS club is a performance event for ideas in development, featuring emerging and established artists across live performance practice. Selected artists will
- [yourseven](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/yourseven/) - Your life in seven photo booths. Based on Jaques’ famous speech from “As You Like it”, this playful encounter asks you to consider your life journey through Shakespeare’s seven ages of man. What has your life been like so far and what is yet to come? A world premiere featuring a talented cast of bright
- [Seeking basic needs and other tales of excess](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/seeking-basic-needs/) - The streets are your stage. Take a pathway across Northbridge with a set of headphones and an open mind in this opera for one. Listen in as an original soundscape unfolds with stories of migration and patterns of human behaviour. Hear world-wide tales of struggle, joy and hope as the city comes alive in this
- [Jupiter Orbiting | Joshua Pether (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/joshua-pether-creative-development/) - Jupiter Orbiting is a new work in development by WA based artist Joshua Pether as part of the Next Wave x PICA Commission. The work will premiere at Next Wave Festival 2018 before returning to PICA in 2019. Jupiter Orbiting is an immersive exploration of personal identity via science fiction narrative and a visceral combination
- [Seeking basic needs and other tales of excess | Renée Newman (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/renee-newman-creative-development/) - Seeking basic needs and other tales of excess is a new work in development by Renée Newman exploring the form of the audio tour. Borrowing from Francis Alÿs’s notion that “walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already – with the speed culture of our time – a kind of resistance...a very immediate method for
- [Open Studio Night | Bonnie Lane, Ross Hamilton Frew and Sophie Durand](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-bonnie-lane-ross-hamilton-frew-and-sophie-durand/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. Through an act of performative autobiography, Australian-born, New York based Bonnie Lane exposes private experiences that subvert prescribed gender roles. In a practice that spans
- [Ross Hamilton Frew (UK)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ross-hamilton-frew-2/) - Ross Hamilton Frew’s practice is rooted in mark making and concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines and surfaces. Be it through drawing, collage, print or assemblage, his work always adheres to a series of predetermined or self imposed rules and structures. During his residency Ross will place an emphasis on ‘surface’ and
- [Sophie Durand (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sophie-durand/) - Sophie Durand is a multimedia artist from Perth whose complex and immersive works combine installation, film and performance. Her research is theoretically and formally underpinned by ideas of place in relation to exhibition and installation practice. During her residency Sophie will undergo creative development for ‘Dolphin Days’, a hybrid installation and play: a site-specific construction
- [The Second Woman](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-second-woman/) - Step inside a 24-hour live performance and cinema spectacle. Like bingeing on a box-set, you won’t be able to drag yourself away. A diverse cast of 100 different men are invited to star opposite Nat Randall in a scene inspired by the John Cassavetes' cult film Opening Night. Randall performs the same short scene as an
- [PICA Open Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-open-day/) - To celebrate Open House Perth 2017 and the opening of our exhibitions Remedial Works and I don't want to be there when it happens, join us for a range of free events – featuring artist and curator talks, poetry, storytelling, and music. Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural – Remedial Works Artist & Curator Talks 2–3pm Head to our
- [Crazy Sound Making Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/crazy-sounds-workshop/) - Work with artist and coder Steve Berrick to create and play with invisible energies in a workshop inspired by current exhibition Energies: Haines & Hinterding. Using custom built microphones, investigate the electromagnetic signatures of different objects. Bring along toys or electronic devices to create unusual and crazy new sounds that will blow your mind. This
- [Open Studio Night | Bruno Booth, Emma Lashmar and Alice Dittmar](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-bruno-booth-emma-lashmar-rafaela-pandolfini/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. Bruno Booth is a visual artist from the windy wastes of Lancashire (UK) now living in Fremantle and will be using his residency at PICA
- [Alice Dittmar](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/alice-dittmar/) - Alice Dittmar is a visual artist based in Berlin and Perth, with ongoing projects in Germany, Austria, China and Australia. For her PICA residency, she will work on a project entitled, Becoming temporary (2012) / becoming permanent (2013) – an artist book referring to her Australian partner visa applications, containing copies of the required application documents: Temporary Residence (2012);
- [Emma Lashmar (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emma-lashmar-wa/) - Emma Lashmar works primarily with the medium of molten glass, crafting blown transparent objects and combining multiples into scenarios with other media, including sounds, lighting and mechanical systems, to produce room-sized immersive sculptural installations. While at PICA Emma will use felt bring to life a theatrical dreamscape depiction of an actual location etched in her
- [Bruno Booth (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bruno-booth-wa/) - Bruno Booth will use his residency at PICA to develop his project Don't know where to look. It will attempt to depict the mundane, farcical and extraordinary experiences that are provided to Booth as a condition of his disability. Booth will document and explore the physical reactions of the public to disability through videos, paintings
- [PICA x Telstra Perth Fashion Festival | Blurred Boundaries](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/blurred-boundaries/) - The Italian masterminds behind W230 Studio have made it their mission to test new combinations of styles through different materials and shapes. View 3D printed shoes, dress and bag and see how W230 Studio brings together different design fields to explore emerging ideas and develop new work crossing over fashion and technology. Their futuristic approach will
- [EDfutures Design Workshop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/edfutures-design-workshop/) - *Please note this event is now fully booked. This workshop is aimed at individual teachers or teaching-teams from WA high school and is suitable (but not limited to) the Science, Arts and Technologies learning areas. Join PICA staff and EDfutures in a workshop that will see you design an interdisciplinary project that can be run
- [Jet Stream | David Haines & Joyce Hinterding](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/artist-talk-with-david-haines-joyce-hinterding/) - Our eyes and our heads have always been drawn to the upper atmosphere and further into the cosmos. A firmament filled with the sound of Spherics that bounce on the earth’s magnetic field lines, the crack of lightning across the radio waves and the dotted stars of the night sky. Join us for an afternoon
- [Illustrated Lecture with Anna Davis](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/illustrated-lecture-with-anna-davis/) - Join curator of Energies: Haines & Hinterding, Anna Davis for a illustrated lecture as she discusses her curatorial practice and key exhibitions at the MCA over the past seven years. Biography Anna Davis is a Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, having joined the MCA team in 2009. Prior to this she was
- [Aeon](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/aeon/) - A SONIC WALK. A QUEER NATURE. How does it feel to move, to explore, to belong? Aeon lands a portable speaker in your palm and tranquil bushland at your feet to explore where the social and natural worlds collide. Informed by flocking studies and queer ecology, Aeon is activated by silence, sound, civic responsibility and personal desire.
- [Quarry Music](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/quarry-music/) - A celebration of ruined piano to evoke a vanished realm. After 1945, West Subiaco was the site of a vast quarry where US forces discarded their jeeps and armoured cars at the end of WWII. In time, the quarry became a rubbish dump. Quarry Music evokes a past buried beneath manicured school ovals and raises community awareness concerning the
- [PRVCY](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/prvcy/) - CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT + PILOT SHOWINGS A PICA COMMISSION PRVCY is a major new Australian collaboration with kdmindustries and a team of WA’s leading independent artists. Over two weeks they will undergo a second stage development culminating in two pilot showings of this new work. From Edward Snowden and Wikileaks, to Facebook live-streaming murders, to Solange
- [Open Studio Night | Jarrad Martyn and Elaine Reynolds](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-elaine-reynolds-and-jarrad-martyn/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. Join us for an exciting evening of discussion with Jarrad Martyn (WA) and Elaine Reynolds (IRL). Martyn seeks to question how different moments in Australian
- [Remedial Works](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/remedial-works/) - Remedial Works is an exhibition that groups an international set of artists working together to understand the novel and specific materials of contemporary global societies, and how these materials and their embedded meanings can affect human bodies and relationships. Human bodies are now placed within a unique environment of surfaces and substances - from rare
- [ENERGIES: HAINES & HINTERDING](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/energies-haines-hinterding/) - David Haines' and Joyce Hinterding's solo show is a comprehensive survey of their multisensory artistic practices, featuring collaborative projects and solo works by both artists. The artists have been working together for over fifteen years. Using a wide range of media and custom-built devices, they engage in an artistic dialogue with science. Aesthetic and philosophical
- [PICA and NEXT WAVE X | co-commission](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-and-next-wave-x-co-commission/) - Eligibility and Selection Criteria To be Eligible, applicants must be: Prepared to premiere the new work at NWF 2018 followed by a presentation in Perth at PICA in 2019 Western Australian based artist or collective An emerging practitioner/s – this means you are within the first five years of your professional artistic career. Submissions must meet the following
- [PICA and NEXT WAVE X | Co-commission](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/next-wave-x-pica-eoi-call-out/) - PICA and Next Wave invites expressions of interest from Western Australia’s emerging artists and collectives working across live art, dance, theatre and interdisciplinary practice to develop a new contemporary performance work to be presented in Melbourne at Next Wave Festival in 2018 and in Perth at PICA’s Reckless Acts in 2019. Next Wave x is Next Wave’s new co-commissioning program which will
- [When The Sky Fell | All Ages Activities](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/whentheskyfell-learning/) - Come see When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum at PICA and take part in our numerous fun free activities designed to promote learning. These activities are available during PICA Gallery opening hours: Tue - Sun, 10am - 5pm. Click the links below to find out more.
- [Perth Science Festival | Workshop, Tour & Open Studio](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/perthsciencefestivalprogram/) - Highlights: Workshop | Weaving Stories Together Help art meet science during National Science Week and Perth Science Festival with Nyoongar painter, sculptor and weaver Sharyn Egan. Drop in and contribute to a large community weaving using straw, raffia and parts of the Balga (Grass) tree. Saturday 12 August, 11am - 2pm Tour | Science in Art A scientist
- [Unique Kimberley Art Experience](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/unique-kimberley-art-experience/) - PICA is delighted to offer you a unique opportunity that will immerse you in a true Kimberley art experience. Thanks to Waringarri Arts and the Kimberley community, you and three guests will: Fly to Kununurra courtesy of Virgin Airways Regional Service valued at $3,192 Stay for three (3) nights at the Kununurrua Country Club Resort
- [Woven Fun Forms](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wovenfunforms/) - FREE Drop in and make a fun sculpted woven object with Noongar painter, sculptor and weaver Sharyn Egan. Use straw and raffia together with parts of the Balga (Grass) tree in your creation. This workshop is part of the Goologoolup NAIDOC Week Celebration Community Day on Saturday 8 July, 10am to 5pm. Discover the full program here.
- [I don't want to be there when it happens](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/i-dont-want-to-be-there-when-it-happens/) - Starting from the fragile and complex socio-political relationship between India and Pakistan in the era of contemporary warfare, I don’t want to be there when it happens investigates, in a broader sense, the psychology of trauma. In response to the 70th anniversary of the Partition of Colonial India (14 August 1947), this exhibition features artists from both
- [GOOLOGOOLUP | NAIDOC WEEK CELEBRATION](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/goologoolup-naidoc-week-celebration/) - Celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal culture through the universal languages of art, food and storytelling with a curated program of activities and cultural sharing including Welcome to Country, demonstrations and performances, kids workshops and Noongar Radio live broadcast from WA’s major cultural hub. Goologoolup is a Noongar place name for the area between Perth Train
- [When The Sky Fell: Opening Celebration](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/when-the-sky-fell-opening-celebrations/) - Join us as we celebrate the opening of When the Sky Fell and launch of NAIDOC Week with an afternoon of cultural interactions. Respected Nyoongar Elder Rev Sealin Garlett will perform Welcome to Country with a dance performance from Moorditj Moort, followed by a live sand animation from Mervyn Street and artist talks led by Curator
- [When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/when-the-sky-fell-legacies-of-the-1967-referendum/) - 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Federal Referendum that was considered by many to be a critical turning point for political change within Indigenous affairs. This Federal Referendum recommended the removal of two clauses within the Australian Constitution that were discriminatory towards Indigenous Australians and, as a result of the political climate of
- [When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum - Donor Exclusive](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/when-the-sky-fell-legacies-of-the-1967-referendum-donor-exclusive/) - 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Federal Referendum that was considered by many to be a critical turning point for political change within Indigenous affairs. This Federal Referendum recommended the removal of two clauses within the Australian Constitution that were discriminatory towards Indigenous Australians and, as a result of the political climate of
- [PICA SALON VERNISSAGE 2017](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-salon-vernissage-2017/) - The PICA Salon Vernissage has become one of the most remarkable and memorable events on Perth’s arts calendar, bringing art lovers together to celebrate and support contemporary art practices in Western Australia. In 2017 the Vernissage will launch When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum, an exhibition featuring work by 27 Indigenous WA artists. Curated by established visual
- [EDUCATION PACKAGE | Hatched: National Graduate Show 2017 and The Rise of Sneaker Culture](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/education-package-hatched-national-graduate-show-2017-and-the-rise-of-sneaker-culture/) - In this whole day workshops package for school groups of up to 30 students, schools will take a tour of Hatched 2017 and participate in a related practical art workshop at PICA, plus tour of The Rise of Sneaker Culture and participate in a related practical art workshop at AGWA (3.5 hours plus a 30-minute lunch
- [A Flying Start](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-flying-start/) - Panel Discussion Writing effective exhibition proposals can be necessary for a professional arts practice, but selling yourself and describing your work to others can be a big challenge. Join industry peers and professionals for a discussion on pitching ideas, securing exhibitions and opportunities for showcasing your practice. Panel chaired by Eugenio Viola Panellists: Eugenio Viola |
- [HATCHED 2017: Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2017-opening-night-party/) - Join us for the Hatched 2017 opening night party! The Hatched: National Graduate Show maps the trends and concerns of Australia’s next generation of emerging contemporary artists. Featuring 35 graduates from 23 art schools and universities nationally, Hatched is a celebration of the most exciting emerging artists from across the country. Now in its 26th year, Hatched is
- [Show & Tell and Body Not Fit For Purpose](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/show-tell-and-body-not-fit-for-purpose/) - “Burrows and Fargion are brilliant at turning the eccentricities of their shared creative world into irresistible theatre.” The Guardian The work of Burrows and Fargion radiates delight even as it makes the audience think. Creating a worldwide following through their body of duets the duo mix the formality of classical music composition with an open
- [The Irresistible](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-irresistible/) - Let's begin with two people. Deep in the gloom a phone rings. They take the call. The voice on the line slips beneath her skin and curls its fingers around his stomach. You can't see it, you can't touch it, you can barely feel it. You can't hold on tight enough. These people, these sisters
- [Never tilt your chair back on two legs](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/never-tilt-your-chair-back-on-two-legs/) - Never tilt your chair back on two legs brings together Australia's leading female percussionists to present a sonic double-bill interweaving action, notation and gesture. Set at a formal dinner table, the percussionists re-enact etiquette using utensils engaged with eating and drinking, chronicling two centuries of table dining implements and customs. With an emphasis on the
- [This Everlasting Light | Rachael Dease (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/this-everlasting-light-rachael-dease-wa/) - Rachael Dease undertakes a first stage exploration of sound, light and moving image through scientific data and new technologies. The Everlasting Light hopes to begin a dialogue via immersive environments that both reflect and challenge our ideas and rituals surrounding death and grief in Western society. This work investigates sacred ritual and contemporary secular grief practice
- [KISS club 2017](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kiss-club/) - Pucker up Perth! KISS club is a performance event for ideas in development, featuring emerging and established artists across live and experimental arts practice. Created by Sydney based artist Karen Therese, KISS club has been presented by tactical media group pvi collective at CIA studios since 2010. This year KISS club will be co-curated for the first time by PICA and pvi collective. Selected artists will present ten minutes of a
- [Elaine Reynolds (Ireland)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/elaine-reynolds-ireland/) - As Artist in Residence at PICA, Reynolds will generate materials towards a new, multi-layered video installation. This work will explore cycles of migration from Ireland to Western Australia and the ways in which this intersects with the history of mining in the region. Incorporating original and found footage, alongside maps and other archival material, the
- [Jarrad Martyn (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jarrad-martyn-wa/) - The Golden State 'The Golden State' is reference to a slogan used during the 1980s on Western Australian licence plates. Martyn seeks to question how different moments in Australian history have been framed, focusing on how we are engaging with the natural landscape. The project explores the recent culling of sharks, the dinosaur footprints at
- [Activity Sheet | Forgiving Night for Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/activity-sheet-forgiving-night-for-day/) - Bring your children to Jacobus Capone’s Forgiving Night for Day and we will provide you with a free Children’s Activity Worksheet. Combining writing and drawing activities, these worksheets are a fun way for young people to engage with the ideas and themes within the exhibition.
- [All Ages Activity | Shared Memories](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/all-ages-activity-shared-memories/) - Were you inspired by the stories of identity, travel, new encounters and nostalgia in PICA's current exhibitions? Why not share your own and add it to the wall of collected memories by pegging it to the string on the wall.
- [Education Tours | Jacobus Capone: Forgiving Night For Day & Lynette Wallworth: Collisions](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/education-tours-jacobus-capone-forgiving-night-for-day-lynette-wallworth-collisions/) - PICA offers interactive tours for school and community groups, designed to facilitate engagement with our exhibitions. Tours are crafted to be accessible to diverse audiences and are tailored to levels of education and prior knowledge. Education Links: Cross-Curricula. English – Language & Literature. Arts – Media Arts, Music & Visual Arts; Languages. Humanities & Social Sciences
- [Danielle Reynolds (VIC)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/danielle-reynolds-vic/) - Pug in a pretty plaid bonnet is a project exploring notions of futility, failure and queerness. These themes will be examined and articulated through studio research, combining painting, sculpture, sound and performance. For this project Reynolds will be using 'not knowing' as a generative tool in the studio, along with tactics of sculptural intervention, invention
- [Jenn Garland (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/jenn-garland-wa/) - Jenn Garland is a Fremantle based artist with a social science background. Her interest in researching human-environment interactions permeates her artworks, particularly her fascination with the competing systems of knowledge and subjective histories that surround the natural world. During her PICA residency, Garland aims to visualise a trashed utopian dream, exploring the sides of society
- [Open Studio Night: Jenn Garland and Danielle Reynolds](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-jenn-garland-and-danielle-reynolds/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents and provide invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practices. PICA’s first open studio for the year brings you two outstanding multi-disciplinary artists. Beginning from a ‘found’ image, Danielle Reynolds (VIC) examines the dog as
- [Illustrated Lecture with Eugenio Viola](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/illustrated-lecture-with-eugenio-viola/) - Leading Italian curator and art critic Eugenio Viola and newly appointed Senior Curator at PICA will present an illustrated lecture that offers an overview of his curatorial practice to date. He will speak about some key projects at MADRE, the Contemporary Art Museum of Naples, where he served as Curator at Large from 2013 to
- [Science, Spirit and Story | Shari Frilot and Lynette Wallworth in conversation. ](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/science-spirit-and-story/) - The creator of Collisions, artist Lynette Wallworth, will be in conversation with Shari Frilot from Sundance Institute. They will discuss their long standing mutual interest in the possibilities of new technologies for connection and immersion. Their conversation will focus their history, their approach to emerging technologies and the capacity to reach beyond what exists to
- [Contemplative Conversations | Jacobus Capone](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/contemplative-conversations-jacobus-capone/) - Join Perth artist Jacobus Capone in conversation with Greg Pryor, Lecturer Arts and Humanities at ECU, as they delve deeply into the ideas and processes used by Jacobus in his new exhibition that explores the poetic nuances embedded within the Portuguese term saudade. Introduced by Eugenio Viola, newly appointed Senior Curator at PICA.
- [Exhibition Opening | Forgiving Night for Day by Jacobus Capone](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/exhibition-opening-forgiving-night-for-day-by-jacobus-capone/) - Please join us to celebrate the opening of Forgiving Night for Day by local artist Jacobus Capone. As part of Perth International Arts Festival, this evocative video installation sensitively reflects on the poignant state of yearning for moments never realised or let slide… Don’t let this be one! Savour the summery festival vibe in the
- [RECKLESS ACTS | Jumping the Shark Fantastic](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reckless-acts-jumping-the-shark-fantastic/) - What would be the BEST theatre show ever? Artist Malcolm Whittaker wants to ask you, the people of Perth, exactly that. Jumping the Shark Fantastic uses hands-on community research to create an anthology of taste in a splendid and ambitious theatrical extravaganza. During a residency at PICA, artist Malcolm Whittaker takes to the streets
- [RECKLESS ACTS | Desert Body Creep](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reckless-acts-desert-body-creep/) - Dances with worms. Unearthing the future. Turning fear and horror into an imaginary force, Desert Body Creep wriggles and writhes through a hallucinatory dreamscape of worms, synth pop, live sampling, zombies and shifting bodily forms. This performance delves deeper and darker into a world of plot holes, black holes and worm holes, taking you on
- [RECKLESS ACTS | Ecosexual Bathhouse](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reckless-acts-ecosexual-bathhouse/) - Step into the Bathhouse and let the environment be your lover. Perth-based artist collective Pony Express offer up an immersive cave of wonder with a variety of eco-erotic experiences. Experiment with pollination, unwind in the sauna or be guided by a bathhouse regular toward your own organic awakening. Catering to all - from the mildly
- [RECKLESS ACTS | Fantasy Light Yoga](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reckless-acts-fantasy-light-yoga/) - Lose yourself in dark yogic disco in PICA’s Central Galleries. Natalie Abbott (fire), Sarah Aiken (air), Rebecca Jensen (water) and Angela Goh (earth) are Deep Soulful Sweats. A little bit deep house, a little bit stompy, a little bit Jane Fonda, a lot of whacky weird; Fantasy Light Yoga is an energetic ritual/yoga/dance/party where everyone
- [WILD WILD LOVE (Working Title)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wild-wild-love-working-title/) - Deep in the wilderness, Catherine and Wilson's honeymoon hunting trip descends into a brutal tussle for power, love and identity as they hunt for a truly wicked beast. It's a fierce ride that will pull at your heart; a desperate and dirty fight for power deep in the dark woods. Side Pony Productions has joined forces with
- [Reckless Acts | FRINGE WORLD 2017](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reckless-acts-fringe-world-2017/) - RECKLESS ACTS is PICA's bold new program for the adventurous as part of FRINGE WORLD. Stretching to all corners of the PICA building, RECKLESS ACTS unleashes an eclectic mix of artists from across Australia from 20 January – 4 February 2017. Lose yourself in yogic disco with Fantasy Light Yoga, experience the BEST theatre show ever
- [RECKLESS ACTS | Holiday Feelings](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/holiday-feelings/) - Our labour is your leisure, your leisure is our pleasure. Have you been hit with Fringe fatigue? Feeling overwhelmed? Maybe it’s time you took a breather? The 110% team are giving you Holiday Feelings; an interactive leisure oasis right inside PICA. Enjoy the festival from the comfort of a custom designed relaxation zone complete with soothing surroundings
- [Education Tours | When Happiness Ruled by Pip & Pop](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/education-tours-when-happiness-ruled-by-pip-pop/) - PICA offers interactive tours for school and community groups, designed to facilitate engagement with our exhibitions. Tours are crafted to be accessible to diverse audiences and are tailored to levels of education and prior knowledge. Education Links include: The Arts – Dance, Drama, Music, Media Arts , Visual Arts; Technologies; English – Literature; Building & Construction;
- [All Ages Activity | When Happiness Ruled](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/all-ages-activity-when-happiness-ruled/) - Contribute to our Pip & Pop inspired mural in the PICA reading room! Use the mountain shape templates to create your own mountain and then cut, tape and collage candy coloured shapes into a unique design. Add it to the mural and take a photo of your dreamy design. Don’t forget to tag
- [Activity Sheet | When Happiness Ruled](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/activity-sheet-when-happiness-ruled/) - Bring your children to PICA’s When Happiness Ruled – Pip & Pop exhibition and we will provide you with a free Children’s Activity Worksheet. Combining written and drawing activities, these worksheets are intended to be filled out as you experience the exhibition as a way to facilitate engagement and learning.
- [Collisions](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/collisions/) - A virtual journey to sacred land. Martu elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Western culture came in the 1950s when he witnessed a secret atomic bomb testing. Now with the advance of virtual reality technology you will be transported back to his desert community in the Pilbara with Morgan as your guide. Collisions is
- [Forgiving Night for Day](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/forgiving-night-for-day/) - Filmed in Lisbon over seven consecutive sunrises, Forgiving Night for Day is a contemplative reflection on the poetic Portuguese word ‘saudade’, an expression of deep nostalgia and longing for people, places and times irrevocably lost. During a winter spent in Lisbon a lyric was written by Jacobus Capone in response to the empty early morning
- [Two Places, One Space](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/two-places-one-space/) - Two Places, One Space is the result of a two-year partnership between Warnbro Community High School and PICA's Spark_lab schools learning program. This collaboration sought to unite the locations of outer-metro Warnbro with the Perth Cultural Centre through a series of projects fostering creativity, resilience, innovation, communication, academic achievement and cultural awareness. Warnbro Community High School became
- [How to Move Mountains: When Happiness Ruled Artist Talk and Catalogue Launch](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/how-to-move-mountains-when-happiness-ruled-artist-talk-and-catalogue-launch/) - Leave the mundane behind and wander into a fantasy wonderland with internationally renowned Pip & Pop (AKA Tanya Schultz). Amongst the psychedelic sweetness, hear firsthand about Tanya’s first foray into kinetic sculpture and how this and a scaling up of her practice has allowed her to expand her portrayal of wish-fulfilment and paradise mythologies. Conclude
- [Spark_Lab | The Curtain Breathed Deeply - All Ages Activity](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/spark_lab-the-curtain-breathed-deeply-all-ages-activity/) - You’re the star of the show and you’ve got the photos to prove it! To celebrate Justene Williams’ playful exhibition we’re turning our Reading Room into a film set! Pose with props in front of our specially designed set inspired by the colourful world in The Curtain Breathed Deeply. Learn about installation, readymades and remixed
- [Spark_Lab | The Curtain Breathed Deeply Activity Sheet](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/spark_lab-the-curtain-breathed-deeply-activity-sheet/) - Bring your children to PICA’s The Curtain Breathed Deeply – Justene Williams exhibition and we will provide you with a free Children’s Activity Worksheet. Combining written and drawing activities, these worksheets are intended to be filled out as you experience the exhibition as a way to facilitate engagement and learning. Start them young!
- [Education Tours | The Curtain Breathed Deeply: Justene Williams and Be Polite: Gordon Bennett](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/education-tours-the-curtain-breathed-deeply-justene-williams-and-be-polite-gordon-bennett/) - PICA offers interactive tours for school and community groups, designed to facilitate engagement with our exhibitions. Tours are crafted to be accessible to diverse audiences and are tailored to levels of education and prior knowledge. Education Links include: The Arts – Visual Arts, Drama, Music; Media Production & Analysis; English; Humanities & Social Sciences – Aboriginal
- [School Holiday Workshops | Fashioning Clothing As Art](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-holiday-workshop-fashion-clothing-as-art/) - Transform an unloved item of clothing into new, exciting, wearable art. In these school holiday workshops children will be guided by artist and designer of label Emm, Emma Buswell to create their very own crazy, fun and imaginative outfit inspired by Justene William’s exhibition The Curtain Breathes Deeply. Children will experiment with techniques including weaving,
- [School Workshops | Constructing Clothing as Art](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-workshops-the-curtain-breathed-deeply-justene-williams/) - In a half-day workshop, artist and designer Emma Buswell, will work with students to create personal art pieces inspired by The Curtain Breathed Deeply: Justene Williams. Students will learn about fabric manipulation and construction techniques by transforming pre-owned clothing into a work of wearable art. This workshop will develop capabilities in fashion as art –
- [EXHIBITION OPENINGS | JUSTENE WILLIAMS & GORDON BENNETT](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/exhibition-openings-justene-williams-gordon-bennett/) - Please join us as we celebrate the openings of two major solo exhibitions, Justene Williams: The Curtain Breathed Deeply and Gordon Bennett: Be Polite. The Curtain Breathed Deeply presents an immersive collection of video and sculptural work by artist Justene Williams. This, Williams largest and most ambitious undertaking to date sees the artist use found objects
- [OPEN STUDIO NIGHT | Amy Perejuan-Capone, Melanie Jayne Taylor, Welcome Collective](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-amy-perejuan-capone-melanie-jane-taylor-welcome-collective/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents. Join us as we are taken inside the studios of Amy Perejuan-Capone (WA), Melanie Jayne Taylor (VIC) and Welcome Collective (WA) as they explore construction and collection through various contemporary practices including design, media and
- [ECO-PROJECTION MAPPING](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/eco-projection-mapping/) - Projection mapping is a process that can turn any object into a display surface for video projection. For PICA's weekend workshop Steven Aaron Hughes will guide kids age 7 - 12 through projection mapping! If your child loves technology and art they will love this workshop filled with drawing, photography and sci-fi style art making.
- [TRIGGER WARNING](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/trigger-warning-panel-talk/) - Join Trigger Warning creator Sally Richardson, author Rosemary Sayers, psychotherapist Dr Jan Resnick and the project artists for a wide-ranging conversation led by Meri Fatin which considers trauma; PTSD and the impact of war and violence on women and refugees; and other issues raised by the show. This free panel discussion will reflect upon and
- [Radical Ecologies for Children](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/radical-ecologies-for-children/) - Weekend Workshop: Eco-Projection Mapping Saturday 27 August 10:30am - 1pm & 1:30pm - 4pm Ages: 7 - 12 Projection mapping is a process that can turn any object into a display surface for video projection. For PICA’s Weekend Workshop, video artist and director Stephen Aaron Hughes will guide children in creating their own 3D projections,
- [Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/re-wired-re-mixed-event-for-dismembered-body/) - Radical Ecologies will feature an exciting and ambitious new project from Stelarc, one of the world’s most prolific bio-artists famous for technological interventions to his own body. Titled Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body, 3-7 August, is a five-day internet enabled performance, that explores the physiological and aesthetic experience of a fragmented, distributed, de-synchronized, distracted and
- [Somatic Drifts](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/somatic-drifts/) - Somatic Drifts is a sensory experience and accumulative video installation that explores human and species empathy. Through a live, one on one, shamanic mediation participants experience the bodies of other entities, through illusion and touch. The participants recorded bodies, along with their diverse internal narratives, are donated to accumulate in a multi-screen video installation. Here
- [Radical Ecologies: Workshop for Schools](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/radical-ecologies-workshop-for-schools/) - In a half day workshop, video artist and art director for renowned bio-artist Stelarc, Steven Aaron Hughes, will work with students to create personal art pieces inspired by Radical Ecologies. Students will photograph themselves using iPads and experiment with projection mapping technologies to project their own image onto plants and images of plants onto both
- [Radical Ecologies: Professional Learning for Artists & Educators](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/radical-ecologies-professional-learning-for-artists-educators/) - Inspired by the robotic bio-art in Radical Ecologies, join video artist Steven Aaron Hughes for an art and technology filled workshop! Using iPad applications, educators and artists will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in projection mapping. Learn the basics to develop engaging digital programs and projects for your classes that advance visual based learning
- [Perth Science Festival at PICA](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/perth-science-festival-at-pica/) - Perth Science Festival (13 - 14 August) launches National Science Week (13 - 21 August) in WA! [hr] Special Weekend Workshops: “Rewired / Remixed” Saturday 13 August, 12pm - 3pm All Ages | FREE EVENT Join local artist Steven Aaron Hughes as he introduces you to the world of live action robotics! Rewired / Remixed
- [ARTIST LECTURE: Beyond Present and Presence](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/beyond-present-and-presence/) - Join Radical Ecologies artists Perdita Phillips and Mike Bianco as they discuss the role culture plays in our ecological future. As we enter the ‘century of crisis’, we are becoming more aware that solutions to environmental challenges require a fundamental shift in perspective as much as technical solutions. This shift requires us to move away
- [Open Studio Night: David Atwood, Kimberley Pace, Lia McKnight](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-david-atwood-kimberly-pace-lia-mcknight/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you with our current studio residents and provide an invaluable insight into the artists’ processes and practice. For this period, PICA can boast talks from three exceptional artists currently operating out of Perth’s artistic community. Fresh from his recent solo show at
- [Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/robots-and-art-exploring-an-unlikely-symbiosis/) - Stelarc is one of the world’s most prolific creators of robotic art and you have the chance to meet him in person as we launch his new book: Robots and Art (co-edited by Damith Herath, Christian Kroos and Stelarc). Journey into a world of the strange, the beautiful and the daring with Stelarc and an expert
- [New Owner](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/new-owner/) - From the creators of international smash hits The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer and It's Dark Outside comes a sensitive new show about loss and friendship, told through a dog's eyes. Bernie is a boisterous puppy waiting to be chosen from the animal shelter. Mabel is a lonely widow, trying to fill the hole
- [Be Polite](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/be-polite/) - Be Polite is an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia's most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett (1955-2014). On tour from the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, this curated selection of Bennett's works on paper comprises drawing, painting, watercolour, poetry, and essays from the early 1990s through to the
- [Project Xan](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/project-xan/) - 'she was behaving like a slut...' Set in a rink-side courtroom, and oscillating between now and 1981, Project Xan examines the events of one dark night that changed a young girl's life forever. With Xan Fraser's story at its heart, this riveting work interrogates the perilous injustices behind rape culture and victim blaming. Featuring Xan herself
- [Trigger Warning](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/trigger-warning/) - Part noise concert, part improvised performance, Trigger Warning is a fearless new sonic study into the mind and body of a woman who survived the horrors of war. In a world defined by our obsession with security and terrorism, why do we turn a blind eye to the 65 million displaced people in the world who
- [Luisa Hansal (VIC)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/luisa-hansal-vic/) - insideout Currently undertaking her master’s degree in Melbourne, Perth artist Luisa Hansal will return to WA for her PICA residency project. Working figuratively with painting, photography, sculpture and installation, her practice is an ongoing exploration and analysis of her ‘lifeworld’, dealing with the reoccurring themes of love, sex and selfidentification. Her residency project insideout will
- [Tom Blake (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tom-blake-wa/) - Utilising isolated moments as potential sites for contemplation, Tom Blake’s practice invites thought and discussion about the broader networks and frameworks in which we live. During his PICA residency, Tom will continue his exploration of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningfulness in random imagery) while developing a body of work exploring unnoticed physical interactions that
- [Kate Moss & Magni Borgehed](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kate-moss-magni-borgehed/) - During a residency at PICA Magni will make new paintings, using local found fabrics and pigments such as dirt and plant material, together with textile paint. Kate is interested in the rhythmic potential of words and their relationship to life, living and the surrounding landscape—writing and poetry act as the mediator between life both inside
- [Welcome Collective (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/welcome-collective-wa/) - Through the manipulation of found video footage and the creation of concrete structures The Welcome Collective (Aaron Prior and Hannah Purvey-Tyrer) will rebuild failed utopian monuments. Beginning with the billowing dust and concrete rubble left behind after a building’s ruination, The Welcome Collective explores concrete’s brutal aesthetic and iconic significance in both wholeness and destruction.
- [Melanie Jayne Taylor (VIC)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/melanie-jane-taylor-vic/) - All The Gardens I Could Find During her residency at PICA, Melanie will concentrate on developing a comprehensive cataloguing system for all the material in her personal photographic archive related to gardens. Drawing on photographs that depict a wide range of historical and contemporary gardens worldwide, she will consider the slippages between traditional classification systems and subjective, intuitive interpretations. Guiding this process are the
- [Amy Perejuan-Capone (Horse on Toast) (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/amy-perejuan-capone-horse-on-toast-wa/) - This residency will see Perth artist and designer Amy Perejuan-Capone examine the ‘cabinet’ from the point of view of the ‘Wunderkammer’ (cabinet of curiosities or ‘memory theatre’) and how this relates to the power and agency of objects. Interested in exploring how this is relevant to the spectrum between hoarding and collecting, her project will produce a wunderkammer that is the result of
- [Kimberley Pace (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kimberley-pace-wa/) - Kimberley Pace investigates the in-between conditions of the corporeal body. The Perth based artist employs a multidisciplinary studio approach involving garment, object, body, performance and sound. Finding that the body is unfixed, permeable and penetrable, Pace will use her residency to explore how the viewer’s gaze contributes to these ambiguous thresholds of the body. She asks, how do the indefinable margins of the body simultaneously
- [Lia McKnight (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lia-mcknight-wa/) - Expanding on a new direction in her practice, Perth based artist Lia McKnight delves into the intriguing space between waking and dreaming exploring domestic spaces and the subconscious. Evocations of the bedroom as a site of sleep, love, loss and the erotic are investigated in this body of work. During her PICA residency notions of ritual, intimacy and the uncanny will be articulated
- [David Attwood (WA)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/david-attwood-wa/) - David Attwood is a Perth based artist interested in the creative potential of irreverence. During his PICA residency he will take the process of consecration as a starting point for the development of new work. Through his use of the readymade and references to the history of conceptual art, Attwood will look at the potential of consecration to critique notions
- [PICA Salon Vernissage 2016](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pica-salon-vernissage-2016/) - PICA Salon Vernissage has become Perth's most exclusive celebration of contemporary art. The Vernissage will launch Radical Ecologies, an exhibition featuring new work by Western Australian artists practicing at the sharpest edge of contemporary practice, this exhibition acknowledges our continued environmental dystopia and in response offers a range of therapeutic experiences. You are invited to decipher
- [Claire Chase In Conversation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/claire-chase-in-conversation/) - In this free pre-show talk to Density 2036: Part II, US artist Claire Chase provides a fascinating glance into the compositional philosophy behind the 22 year durational project Density 2036 and the contemporary flute techniques and new technologies used. Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music. Described by
- [Claire Chase](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/claire-chase/) - Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new and experimental music. Described by The New York Times as having 'extravagant technique, broad stylistic range and penetrating musicality’, Chase is bringing her revered Density 2036 concert series to Perth for one night only. Density 2036 is a 22-year project begun by Claire
- [Hatched: Visual Story Making](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/visual-story-making/) - Kids, come to PICA and create your very own artwork inspired by artist Anita Holloway’s clay wall works. Draw a picture based on your dreams or a story into a specially cut paper bowl. Stick this on our bright orange wall and add to our mural of arranged objects.
- [Hatched: Workshops for Schools](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-workshops-for-schools/) - Taking place either at PICA or at your school the Hatched 2016 workshops for schools will see students engaging with the latest in contemporary art. Toys for Tomorrow - Sculpture-making Workshops: Australian artist Olga Cironis will encourage students to experiment with a range of sculptural textiles techniques including stitching, tying, weaving and wrapping. Students will choose an everyday
- [Toys for Tomorrow: Professional Learning for Adults, Educators and Artists](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/toys-for-tomorrow-professional-learning-for-adults-educators-and-artists/) - Artists and arts educators are invited to join Australian artist Olga Cironis for a three-hour sculpture workshop. Enjoy a short tour of the Hatched: National Graduate Show before experimenting with a range of sculptural textiles techniques including stitching, tying, weaving and wrapping. You will choose an everyday object to up-cycle as you explore themes including
- [Hatched: Education Tours](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-education-tours/) - Spark_Lab provides students and teachers with the opportunity to engage in interactive education tours of PICA’s latest exhibitions. Tours of the Hatched: National Graduate Show will give students the chance to explore Australia’s next generation of emerging contemporary artists. Students will be encouraged to discuss the themes, materials and processes present in this diverse group
- [School Holiday Workshops: Body pARTS - Sculpture-making Workshops](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-holiday-workshops-body-parts-sculpture-making-workshops/) - Join visual artist Lex Randolph for an anatomical textiles workshop inspired by Laetitia Olivier-Gargano’s freaky, fleshy sculptures in Hatched 2016. You will stitch, stuff, snip and stick your very own scientific specimen to take home in a jar. Lex has worked in the Community Arts and Cultural Development, and Arts and Health sectors for over
- [Audio Descriptive Tour: Hatched 2016](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/audio-descriptive-tour-hatched-2016/) - Join us for the Audio Described Tour of Hatched: National Graduate Show 2016 on Saturday 16 July at 2pm. PICA is partnering with DADAA to offer Audio Description services for selected exhibitions and performances through the Access All Arts program. Audio Description enhances live performance and visual art for people who are blind or vision impaired. An
- [Hatched Artist Talks](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-artist-talks/) - The ever-popular Hatched artist talks have returned for another year! Join us for a day of lively discussion as we unpack the practices of a selection of Hatched artists, in conversation with curator Nadia Johnson. Artist line-up coming soon!
- [A Place of Your Own: Residencies and studios](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-place-of-your-own-residencies-and-studios/) - For artists based in Perth, Western Australia interstate or international studio residencies are one of the most fulfilling ways to have an international art practice. Local artist Olga Cironis has undertaken a variety of artistic residencies both locally and nationally and will join us to lead a discussion about her own residency experiences. The workshop will cover devising
- [The Finishing Touch: Documenting and installing your work](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-finishing-touch-documenting-and-installing-your-work/) - This workshop will give emerging artists a strong understanding of the best practices for installing and documenting their work for exhibitions. Artist Janet Carter will discuss different forms of documentation including photography for condition reporting, marketing, and catalogues. In the practical portion of this workshop, you will be guided through the do’s and don’ts of installation, such
- [Define, Refine, Repeat: Writing about your practice](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/define-refine-repeat-writing-about-your-practice/) - Led by artists and writers Anna Dunnill and Finn O'Branagain, this session will cover how to write about your practice for a variety of real-world applications such as exhibition proposals, grant applications and artist statements. At the end of the workshop, you’ll come away with a greater understanding about how to write about your work
- [Art Life: Establishing your professional practice](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/art-life-establishing-your-professional-practice/) - Whether you are a recent graduate, are still studying or have just been out of the studio for awhile, this workshop is designed to help you set up a studio practice that works for you. Guided by artists Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Teelah George you’ll work through topics like creating your ideal workspace, making goals, time
- [A Flying Start: Emerging Artist Career Labs](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/a-flying-start-emerging-artist-career-labs/) - This workshop series is designed to give emerging artists the practical tools they need for life after art school. The workshops are lead by successful artists who have been in your shoes, and are ready to share their experiences and wisdom with you. All workshops have a practical component and include opportunities for discussion and
- [Hatched 2016: Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hatched-2016-opening-night-party/) - Join us for the Hatched 2016 opening night party! The Hatched: National Graduate Show maps the trends and concerns of Australia’s next generation of emerging contemporary artists. Featuring graduates from 23 art schools and universities nationally, Hatched is a celebration of the most exciting emerging artists from across the country. Now in its 25th year, Hatched is an
- [Mel Cantwell](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mel-cantwell/) - Acknowledging a lack of generational respect in contemporary culture for the wisdom of our aged, The Elders Project is intended to offer an opportunity to learn from a variety of individuals about the value of honouring and recognising our elders as a vast intellectual and emotional resource. Framed by the telling of personal stories in
- [Chrissie Parrott](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/chrissie-parrott/) - TRANsAction #1 is the first phase of an interdisciplinary project by an elite team of Perth based collaborators. During their three week residency at PICA the team will use a unique approach to testing ideas and methods of enquiry to coax out three new theatre scripts. After an initial choreographic development with four performers, three
- [Open Studio Night April 2016](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night-april-2016/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents. This particular group of local and international artists' practices traverse photography, installation and poetry. Join current artists in residence Sheyi Bankale, Zora Kreuzer and Shaun Prior as the discuss their residency experience and their current projects in
- [Zora Kreuzer](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/zora-kreuzer/) - Zora Kreuzer uses colour and light to explore architectural spaces. Particularly fascinated with neon colours, Zora seeks out the use of neon in man-made environments including; fashion, street-life, advertising and club culture, as well as within naturally occurring phenomenon such as a rainbow or sunset. In her new work, Zora uses fluorescent light tubing and
- [Through the Looking Glass Professional Learning for Educators and Artists](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/through-the-looking-glass-professional-learning-for-educators-and-artists/) - Teachers, artists and arts educators are invited to join local filmmaker Poppy van Oorde-Grainger for a three hour stop-motion animation workshop. Inspired by Nathalie Djurberg’s animated films in The Secret Garden you will learn how to use iPad animation software to animate drawings, mixed media collage and 3D modelled characters. Poppy will begin with a tour of the
- [Workshops for Schools: Through the Looking Glass](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/workshops-for-schools-through-the-looking-glass/) - Students will learn to create their own animated films with filmmaker/visual artists Ned Reilly and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger. After a detailed tour of the exhibition students will learn the basics of stop-motion animation with simple iPad software. Responding to the themes in the exhibition students will animate their dreams using mixed media including collage, drawing and
- [School Holiday Workshops: Through the Looking Glass](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-holiday-workshops-through-the-looking-glass/) - Inspired by PICA’s magical exhibition The Secret Garden young artists are invited to create their own animated films! In this special one-day workshop you will learn how to animate your dreams using iPads and mixed media including collage, drawing and 3D modeling. After a tour of the exhibition filmmaker/visual artists Ned Reilly and Poppy van
- [Movie Marathon: A Night of Claymation](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/movie-marathon-a-night-of-claymation/) - Join us for an epic movie marathon at PICA! Grab some popcorn, a cool drink and get comfortable as we settle in for a marathon of Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg’s early video works in claymation. The event will be hosted by Tristan Fidler and movie snacks and comfy seats are provided!
- [The Secret Garden x NLNL](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-secret-garden-x-nlnl/) - Put your dancing shoes on and join us in the Performance Space for a special No Lights No Lycra session held by the NLNL Freo crew. This special PICA dance party will feature a playlist made up of your song submissions in response to Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s ultra-sensory exhibition The Secret Garden. The exhibition will
- [Psychedelic Cupcakes & Mad Hatter’s Tea Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/psychedelic-cupcakes-mad-hatters-tea-party/) - Join us for a whimsical tea party at PICA! Along with fresh herbal teas and a range of baked treats, children are invited to create their own delicious brightly decorated cupcakes, inspired by the surreal and colourful worlds of Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg in The Secret Garden. Entry price includes teas and juices, a
- [The Secret Garden Opening Night Party](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-secret-garden-opening-night-party/) - Come celebrate the opening of The Secret Garden by renowned Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg with a party at PICA. A part of the Perth International Arts Festival, this surreal and playful exhibition will astound the senses and awaken your subconscious. Don’t miss an exclusive electronic live set from exhibiting artist and music
- [Secret Conversations: Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/secret-conversations-nathalie-djurberg-hans-berg/) - Join visiting international artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg in conversation with PICA director Amy Barrett-Lennard as they unpack the surreal and strange worlds of The Secret Garden, and discuss the evolution of their highly successful and long-running artistic collaboration.
- [Shaun Prior](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shaun-prior/) - Through a humorous, mystical and confronting exploration of masculinity, sexuality and the male body, Shaun Prior believes he can find poetry and splendour in the very constructs that have long frustrated and perplexed him. Working at the intersection of poetry and visual art, Shaun plans to use the studio as a site to find exciting
- [Mark Haslam (kdmindustries)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mark-haslam-kdmindustries/) - In October 2015 a homeless woman died in a 24-hour McDonalds in Hong Kong. The moment was captured on CCTV, but her body lay in place, undisturbed, for 8 hours before being noticed. Through a detailed, multidisciplinary approach, kdmindustries will seek to explore our fragmented urban environment and the shifting nature of contemporary privacy.
- [Tiyan Baker](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tiyan-baker/) - Sydney based artist, Tiyan Baker is the Winner of the 2014 Macquarie Digital Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery for her arresting video portraits of people re-enacting their memories in Beijing. The prize includes a residency at PICA during which Tiyan will be working on One Million Views, a digital portraiture project about six Australian
- [Sheyi Bankale](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sheyi-bankale/) - Curator and writer from London, Sheyi Bankale will be in residence to develop and publish a special Perth edition of UK photographic journal, Next Level. Using the studio as a primary platform for collaborating and publishing, Bankale will generate an exciting exchange between UK and Australian networks and create new cultural narratives. The Perth edition
- [Ross Hamilton Frew](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ross-hamilton-frew/) - Scottish artist Ross Hamilton Frew negotiates the territory around contemporary drawing and asks what is more important - the drawn line or the surface it adorns? The artist plans to interrogate ideas of making, drawing and recycling by searching out and collecting local phone directories to pulp. This material will be used to create a new paper
- [Radical Ecologies](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/radical-ecologies/) - A major group exhibition, Radical Ecologies is a sensory invitation to question our complex relationships with our own bodies, each other and the natural world. Featuring new work by Western Australian artists practicing at the sharpest edge of contemporary practice, Radical Ecologies acknowledges our continued environmental dystopia and in response offers a range of therapeutic
- [The Secret Garden Interactive Education Tours](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-secretgarden-interactive-education-tours/) - Spark_Lab provides students and teachers with the opportunity to engage in interactive education tours of PICA’s latest exhibitions. Tours of The Secret Garden will give students the chance to explore the surreal and ultra-sensory worlds of Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg. This exhibition immerses gallery visitors into the mysterious worlds of feverish dreams, psychedelic sunsets and
- [Drill](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/drill/) - Three athletes meet in a late night, never-ending training session. A form of non-competitive competition unfolds before the audience. Sweaty machismo gets a poetic makeover as sprinting, jumping, turning, pivoting, falling and accelerating merge in an indefinable training sequence which revels in an exhausted euphoria. Drill is an exploration of the choreographic potential of athletic
- [Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/piece-for-person-and-ghetto-blaster/) - Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster is the story of a man, a woman and a duck. It is about the excruciating realms of human behavior. It is an attempt to navigate the complexities of trying to become a better person. An incident lasting all of ten minutes is told from three different points of
- [Resort Apocalypse](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/resort-apocalypse/) - Tropical apocalyptic comedy. Sit by the pool, have a cocktail. You’re at a resort now. Just don’t look at the explosions. Yes, the sky was always purple. The world can’t end when you're this relaxed. From the team behind The Pigeons comes a dark comedy that’s a sassy, wild, and sad goodbye to civilisation as
- [The Crossing](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-crossing/) - Sizzling suspenseful noir cabaret. Stella is a corporate fixer. She moves behind the headlines and parties of the fast-paced corporate world, making sure the right jobs are done and the wrong ones are buried so deep that no-one will ever find them. A new work of noir-cabaret by indie sensations The Last Great Hunt. Presented
- [Sleeping Beauty](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sleeping-beauty/) - Charming wake up call. The old cautionary tales and warnings of our ancestors are still relevant today, far beyond the happily ever after. Sleeping Beauty playfully unpicks and de-Disney-fies the familiar fairy tale in a quest to find its contemporary relevance, revealing the story of a mass-culture asleep to our own ethical responsibilities. Presented
- [The Epic](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-epic/) - Surprising, energetic, badass storytelling. A re-telling of the most badass stories from around the world! Dash back to the beginning, uncovering myths and epic tales in ways you’ve never heard before. Finn O'Branagáin and Scott Sandwich are part-time performance poets, full-time story enthusiasts and double-time friends, returning after their sell-out season at The Blue Room
- [17 Border Crossings](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/17-border-crossings/) - Funny and poignant global travelogue. A trip around the world via storytelling at its most effortlessly fluent, 17 Border Crossings starts with a man at a desk on an empty stage and ends up everywhere but. The itinerary: a worse-for-wear Communist-era train, the wheel well of a transatlantic jet, and 15 other border crossings recreated
- [MKA: Being Dead (Don Quixote)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mka-being-dead-don-quixote/) - queer / femme / showgirl A masterclass in literary theft, build-your-own identity and post-anarchy. Don Quixote steals from Netflix, online dating sites and instant porn. She's the idol you deserve. Presented by The Blue Room Theatre in association with PICA as part of FRINGE WORLD 2016.
- [MKA: Unsex Me](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/mka-unsex-me/) - cult / phenomenon / destroys Shakespeare Daughter of a theatre legend and a prima ballerina, award-winning actress Mark Wilson dissects her own story and her next job: being directed by her father as Lady Macbeth. Grand performances, whispered confessions, and booming self-mockery combine as she prepares, promotes and performs the role of her life.
- [Under This Sun](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/under-this-sun/) - Physical theatre, poetry and dust. Cooper wakes to find himself abandoned in the bush. Grace retraces her brother’s letters into the desert. Jeremy, in the spirit of Jack Kerouac, travels to the heart of Australia in search of enlightenment. A visceral work about the annihilation of the Australian outback dream, returning after a successful season at
- [Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process Australia Tour](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/derek-kreckler-accident-process-australia-tour/) - Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process is the first survey exhibition of one of Australia’s most rigorous conceptual artists. It brings together photography, video, installation, sound and performance works drawn from the artist’s early experimental practice of the 1970s through to his more recent focus on still and moving imagery in the 21st century. The exhibition considers the relationship between culture and
- [Workshops for Schools: Pet Portraits with Elizabeth Marruffo](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/workshops-for-schools-pet-portraits-with-elizabeth-marruffo/) - Students are invited to make a magical portrait of their pets with local artist Elizabeth Maruffo. Using needle-felting techniques students will learn how to create a tiny, soft model of their pet to keep forever. This miniature would also make a perfect Christmas present or an elegant decoration for the family tree. Students please bring along a photo
- [Workshops for Schools: Mono-printing with Monique Curby](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/workshops-for-schools-mono-printing-with-monique-curby/) - Students will be inspired by the portraits, doubles and look-alikes in PICA’s Dead Ringer exhibition and create their own series of ghostly portraits with experienced printmaker and long-time Central TAFE lecturer Monique Curby! After exploring mono-printing techniques they will work back into their prints with drawing media to produce a collection of unique portraits. This
- [Weekend Workshops for 7 - 12 year olds: Mono-printing with Monique Curby](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekend-workshops-for-7-12-year-olds-mono-printing-with-monique-curby/) - Be inspired by the portraits, doubles and look-alikes in PICA’s Dead Ringer exhibition and create your own series of ghostly portraits with experienced printmaker and long-time Central TAFE lecturer Monique Curby! After exploring mono-printing techniques you will work back into your prints with drawing media to produce a collection of unique portraits. This workshop is
- [Weekend Workshops for 7 - 12 year olds: Pet Portraits with Elizabeth Marruffo](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/weekend-workshops-for-7-12-year-olds-pet-portraits-with-elizabeth-marruffo/) - Make a magical portrait of your pet with local artist Elizabeth Maruffo. Using needle-felting techniques you will learn how to create a tiny, soft model of your pet for you to keep forever. This miniature would also make a perfect Christmas present for someone in your family or an elegant decoration for your tree. Please
- [Open Studio Night December 2015](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/open-studio-night/) - Open Studio Night is PICA’s most popular series of artist talks that connect you personally with our current studio residents. This particular group of emerging WA artists' practices traverse embroidery, painting and video. Join current artists in residence Anna Dunnill, Nathan Brooker and Peter Cheng to discuss their residency experience and projects.
- [Give Me a Reason to Live](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/give-me-a-reason-to-live/) - Inspired by the work of Medieval Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, Give Me A Reason To Live is a powerful solo taking the form of a series of tests. Claire Cunningham pushes her mind and body to its limit in a breathtaking, physically demanding work about stigma, faith, fear and the search for compassion. With a sound score crafted
- [blackmarket](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/blackmarket/) - Perth’s own tactical media art renegades, pvi collective, have created with blackmarket a participatory site-specific work that takes place on the streets of our city at night. Part roaming artwork, part real-life video game, blackmarket invites you into a dark underworld of unlicensed street selling and entrepreneurial trading. In the fictional world of pvi’s urban role-playing game,
- [An Afternoon of Artist Encounters](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/an-afternoon-of-artist-encounters/) - Join a selection of Dead Ringer artists as they share insights into their haunting works in the exhibition. This public program includes a tour through the exhibition by its curator Leigh Robb who, together with the artists, will discuss life and death, the body and disembodiment and identity crisis in the post-internet age. Watch this space for the
- [David Haines & Joyce Hinterding](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/david-haines-joyce-hinterding/) - Sydney-based artists, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, are widely known for their dramatic audiovisual installations. Working independently, and often in collaboration, Haines & Hinterding bring sound and video together to explore the natural world and its seemingly invisible energies. Hinterding creates recordings of magnetic fields and other natural phenomena that combine with Haines' video installations
- [Louise Paramor](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/louise-paramor/) - A Bunch of Flowers is an exhibition of two recent bodies of work from WA trained artist, Louise Paramor. Comprising paper collages of glossy calendar girl images blown up to billboard size, and constructions of found plastic objects sourced from domestic and industrial sources, the exhibition 'jams' together two distinct focal points for the artist.
- [Replanted: small songs unearthed by weeding](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/replanted-small-songs-unearthed-by-weeding/) - Mechanical squid, a multi-screen poem for the bike ride home, an ode to farm animals and flight-paths, a forest and some dancing within the mossy crook of a branch, watchful gardens that lick and squirm. Re-planted explores the possible worlds beneath our feet, in our backyards and all the way to the bus-stop. Five artists
- [Beckon](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/beckon/) - This exhibition features the work of artists from across Australia who work primarily in sculpture and installation. These artists are linked by the capacity of their work to beckon - inviting the viewer into physical proximity with the work itself, to enter, to sit, to touch, to listen. Different qualities are invoked - a sense
- [Richard Giblett](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/richard-giblett/) - Melbourne based artist, Richard Giblett returns to Perth with a solo show of new and recent works previously unseen on this side of the country. Like a Hieronymus Bosch meets Fritz Lang vision of hell, Giblett's 2D and 3D works bring to the surface what lies unseen in the murky depths beneath us. The expansive
- [Projekt Video Art Archive](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/projekt-video-art-archive/) - The PROJEKT Australian Video Art Archive is a snapshot of Australian video art works exhibited between 1998 and 2003 in commercial, public and artist-run galleries. With cultural centres now being dedicated to the moving image, and most public institutions screening video art in their programs, it was felt that an archive should be set up
- [City of Perth PhotoMedia Award 2006](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/city-of-perth-photomedia-award-2006/) - The City of Perth 2006 PhotoMedia Award is a national biennial award for the visual arts. The exhibition showcases the work of 30 of Australia's foremost professional creative practitioners working in photographic media. The exhibition will encompass a variety of media that explores both hi tech contemporary usage of photomedia, as well as conventional ways
- [BankWest Contemporary Art Prize](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bankwest-contemporary-art-prize-2/) - In its sixth year, the BankWest Contemporary Art Prize brings together a selection of Western Australia's finest contemporary artists for exhibition. A cross section of painting styles and techniques have been selected for showing, and will be judged for the $15,000 first prize and a $2,000 People's Choice Award. Winner: Lisa Wolfgramm
- [Hijacker Videozine](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/hijacker-videozine/) - Hijacked is a survey of contemporary experimental video works from international artists. Artists include Pleix (France), Simionato & Donnachie (Italy), The Wilderness (New Zealand), Emile Zile (Australia), P.Nicolas Ledoux (France) and several others. This exhibition is a response to the human condition sustained in a visually overloaded society, affected and influenced by the moving image,
- [Nien Schwarz](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/nien-schwarz/) - Large scale assemblages, installations and collages made of maps allude to Nien Schwarz's experiences of working alongside geoscientists and living a nomadic field camp existence. The physical labour of negotiating unfamiliar terrain, collecting samples, securing sufficient food supplies and ritually assembling and collapsing space-saving gear informs part of her practice. 2006 marks 26 years of
- [Dealer's Choice](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/dealers-choice/) - It's Sunday night, so it's poker night. Stephen wants to see his son. Frankie wants to go pro. Ash wants his money. Sweeney wants 50 quid to take his daughter to the zoo. And Mugsy? Well, Mugsy wants to open a restaurant in a toilet. For the boys it's the thrill of winning or losing
- [Reform](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/reform/) - What would happen if we were to obey all the rules, follow all the social codes and generally do the right thing, whatever the consequences? Perth based artists group pvi collective hit the streets withreform an outdoor performance work that behaves itself... to the extreme. For ten nights only, pvi collective invite a small audience
- [Putting on an Act](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/putting-on-an-act-2/) - Drug Aware Short Performance Festival From the wildly experimental to the outrageously funny; sometimes witty and sophisticated; at other times sombre or even silly, Putting on an Act provides a unique opportunity to see what WA's independent performance makers are up to. The full gamut of original and experimental performance is served in bite-sized pieces,
- [Winners are Grinners](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/winners-are-grinners/) - The exhibition investigates the back slapping spirit of winning within Australian culture, while also revealing its darker complexities off the sporting field. Responding to the occasion of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Winners are Grinners reveals that all that glitters is not gold, or silver, or even bronze! Curated by Hannah Mathews, Winners are
- [Wages of Spin](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/wages-of-spin/) - With their trademark biting irony, version 1.0 revisits the spinning of the case for Australia's participation in the war on Iraq, and its consequences for our democracy. It's staged as if in a live media studio, with the performers re-voicing key players from the Prime Minister to feral columnists, while a vision switcher calls the
- [How to Become a Better Person](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/how-to-become-a-better-person/) - A tale of the capitalist dream... gone wrong. Scrinch leads a life most unsatisfying, alone, poor and working a job that doesn't pay. Then through a strange twist of fate his luck changes and, like never imagined his dreams are realised; money, power and the girl of his dreams. In the tradition of the physical
- [Marmalade & Egg](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/marmalade-egg/) - Married to a chicken farmer, and now a faded beauty queen, Marmalade wishes she'd crossed her legs during her reign as Miss Sweet Potato '79. Taking command of her only child's wedding, Marmalade finds herself compelled to sabotage her own plans in a desperate bid to become the centre of attention. Events begin to unravel
- [Shannon Lyons | Off the Wall](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shannon-lyons-off-the-wall/) - Lyons' three month residency at PICA will act as the catalyst for a new direction in her artistic practice. Having a preoccupation with the gallery 'wall', the artist recently realised that she was 'unable' to conceptualise a work which did not have a direct dependency on bricks and mortar! During the residency Shannon plans to
- [Tess McNamara | A little sense of it all](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tess-mcnamara-a-little-sense-of-it-all/) - 'If you believed that life was black and white it would be easy. You would be born, go to school, get a job, get married, have your own kids and then finally die. But life has a habit of surprising us. And we have a habit of straying from the simplest of plans. The diorama
- [Brendan van Hek | City Building](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/brendan-van-hek-city-building/) - City Building uses Brendan Van Hek's research on the history and events that have shaped and formed Perth to devise possibilities for the way the city might have been if events had taken a different course. By re-arranging and altering the information collected, van Hek produces fictitious outcomes that question and offer possibilities for the
- [Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tarryn-gill-pilar-mata-dupont-2/) - Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont will transform PICA's Tower Studio into an elaborate stage for their latest work,Heart of Gold Project 3. This is the third stage of their visual research in preparation for a future production (in collaboration with Thea Costantino), The Heart of Gold, an original theatrical musical set during a fictional
- [Laura Johnson | Masking tape lines with paper plane skies](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/laura-johnson-masking-tape-lines-with-paper-plane-skies/) - Johnson's work is about the city space and the corporate world. The large populations of white collared workers in Perth suggest we are a society fixated on the notions of status and material success. Using materials found within this space (ie-staplers, paper and masking tape) the artist will create a map-like installation that comments on
- [Matthew Doust | Animosity](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/matthew-doust-animosity/) - During his PICA residency, Perth artist Matthew Doust will focus on the 'stripping' down of the female form by using extreme light and dense tone to explore the 'original' truth of individuality. Working from still poses, Doust's work will be displayed as mid-sized drawings placed together like wallpaper - a connection of single frames to
- [Perdita Phillips | Vade Mecum](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/perdita-phillips-vade-mecum/) - Vade Mecum is a ten week studio project that runs until 17 December 2006. The project was conceived as an open invitation for people interested in walking and locative media to meet and put their ideas and inclinations into practice. The artwork takes the form of ten walks over the period of the residency. The
- [Kylie Ligertwood | First Entry](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kylie-ligertwood-first-entry/) - If I try to conjure up a picture of that waiting-room today I immediately see the Nocturama, and if I think of the Nocturama the waiting room springs to mind... - W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz New media and installation artist Kylie Ligertwood constructs a place within PICA to explore memory, space, time and the original exposure.
- [Sub-terrain](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sub-terrain/) - Paddy Bedford, Julie Dowling, Derek Kreckler, Matthew Ngui and Juha Tolonen. Curated by Hannah Mathews Sub-terrain brings together a selection of Western Australia's leading contemporary artists under the 2006 Perth International Arts Festival thematic of 'earthly delights'. These artists, whose work draws on a diverse range of media, are linked by their interpretation of the
- [Ryoko Aoki & Zon Ito](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/ryoko-aoki-zon-ito/) - PICA launches its new Screen Space program with an animated work by leading Japanese artists Ryoko Aoki and Zon Ito. A psychedelic journey of life and transformation, this new work explores ideas of the mind, body and the universe that binds us.
- [Shane Pickett](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/shane-pickett/) - Shane Pickett is one of Western Australia's leading Nyoongar artists. His practice extends over 20 years and across a range of mediums, including works on paper, painting, sculpture and printmaking. This modest survey traces the development of Pickett's practice across a variety of styles and motivations, from the early watercolour landscapes to today's poignant works
- [PLAY](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/play/) - PLAY features the work of ten leading Australasian video artists who explore the relationship between the documentary aspects of video and its formal, fluid qualities to capture the performative elements of everyday life. These artists share an interest in the extent to which our personas are influenced by a consciousness of the omnipresent lens, and the
- [Nicole Kaye](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/nicole-kaye/) - Physical / Virtual Sites presents Perth-based artist, Nicola Kaye's current research into virtual communities and contemporary visual interrogative practices. Projected in PICA's new Screen Space, this interactive projection marks the culmination of Kaye's web residency at PICA, which questions civic participation within the public sphere and Internet. Public interaction with the site is integral and
- [Materials & Tecniques Series: Paper](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/materials-tecniques-series-paper/) - Following on from the success of 2005's Drawn Out, which focused on extending popular understandings of drawing in a contemporary context, the second exhibition in this series focuses on the material and techniques of paper. This exhibition brings together artists from across Australia who work with paper in ways that are innovative, exciting and engaging. From
- [Love Me](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/love-me/) - The intimate beats of our emotional lives find mesmerising physical expression in Love Me's three short dance works. A woman dances her heart out under the oblivious gaze of a projected lover. Body fragments twist and flex in pockets of light, in a disturbing struggle for control. Two bodies engage in a duet of icy
- [Loveplay](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/loveplay/) - Sexy, witty and powerful, Loveplay follows a trail of seductions, transactions and encounters that take place in the same location in London across 2,000 years. Loveplay is wildly theatrical and entertaining, offering a dark comic buffet of emotions and sexuality where most things are on the menu. Six actors play 31 characters through the centuries,
- [Dancing in Wired Nature](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/dancing-in-wired-nature/) - STRUT Dance invites Perth audiences to a striking performance piece led by renowned British choreographer Carol Brown and Danish architect, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen. Brown is known for her evocative works that merge dance with film, installation and theatre. Ten members of STRUT will perform a live installation which will be the culmination of a workshop
- [Genesis](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/genesis/) - Experience Genesis - choreographic marvels created by the West Australian Ballet's dancers. Whether they are wildly avant-garde, neo-classical, contemporary or beautifully traditional; these works will make an impact on any dance devotee. Genesis allows the dancers to gain a constructive and technical understanding of their artwork, and unleash their creative urges. No boundaries are placed
- [Glow](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/glow/) - Chunky Move's award-winning fusion of digital technology and human movement, Glow , is presented as part of the 2007 AWESOME Festival. Glow is an interactive solo performance in which the motion of the human body is used to trigger and control music, lighting and animation. Beneath the glow of a sophisticated video tracking system, a lone
- [Kieren Stewart](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/kieren-stewart/) - In recent times we work under the banners of company logos and trademarks, heralds of many a workforce that are now mostly nameless and faceless. Globally, a better part of the world's population struggles to earn what is seen to be an adequate living. As the cost of basic needs rise, the desires of the
- [Patrick Doherty](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/patrick-doherty/) - Patrick Doherty's epic scaled works generate fields of ideas, possible interpretations and meanings. Seductively loaded with a rich combination of humour, criticality and symbolism Doherty's work marries the qualities of contemporary street art with the grand traditions of history painting. Known for working on walls and large unstretched canvases, Doherty will work for the duration
- [BIKINI EYE part 2](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bikini-eye-part-2/) - Bianca Martin and Deborah Robertson began the BIKINI EYE project at the Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra in July 2007. This project continues at PICA with their investigation into art, sport, pornography and being Australian, all while keeping an eye on the television. Martin and Roberston are both drawn to making work which is inclusive for
- [Andrew Nicholls](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/andrew-nicholls/) - Local artist, Andrew Nicholls is primarily known for his ink drawings that reference Victorian woodcuts and engraving to allude to that era's strict moral principles, sexual repression and overt sentimentality. At PICA, he will begin developing a series of short digital video works mimicking the aesthetic sensibility of early special-effects cinema, in the style of
- [Aiden Broderick](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/aiden-broderick/) - When we consider natural events of the last decade, such as global warming and cyclones, many can be directly traced back to the actions of humans and their effect on the environment. In this time we have witnessed some of the greatest innovations in technology and yet we still are at a loss to deal
- [Etcetera Etcetera](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/etcetera-etcetera/) - WAAPA is proud to present Etcetera Etcetera , a dynamic collection of short original dance works choreographed and performed by WAAPA dance students. An eclectic mix of ideas, themes and styles, these exciting new pieces will provoke, inspire, entertain and enchant. Dancers from around Australia audition to be part of WAAPA's intensive, rewarding and highly
- [Andrew Sunley Smith](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/andrew-sunley-smith/) - Andrew Sunley Smith's Migratory Projectscomprise a series of large-scale cross-disciplinary works that engage a wide range of skills and techniques that all focus on various notions of 'direct experience'. Filmed in three countries over two years, this work is presented as a 'triptych' for the first time at PICA and explores the cultural anxiety that
- [Motion Pictures](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/motion-pictures/) - We're riddled with pointless talk, insane amounts of words and images. Stupidity is never blind or mute. So the problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Gilles Deleuze, Mediators Motion pictures is an exhibition of video
- [Deathtrap](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/deathtrap-2/) - There is blood on the carpet, weapons on the wall, a chill in the air, people are going to die, and you are right in the thick of it. Weeping Spoon Productions present an exciting new interpretation of Ira Levin's Deathtrap. A broadway smash hit, Deathtrap invites a small audience to enter the house and
- [small metal objects](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/small-metal-objects/) - In an age when our value and respect is calculated by our productivity, this hilarious and disturbing tale about two mens' accidental downfall of a business awards night will make you re-examine what is 'right'. The action unfolds against a backdrop of Perth's busy Forrest Place, with shoppers and commuters becoming unwitting extras in this
- [Strut Dance Season](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/strut-dance-season/) - STRUT will launch its 2007 program with a season of mid-length works by some of the most prolific independent choreographers in Perth. Performances will be confirmed in early 2007. STRUT provides business, artistic, programming and promotional support to its membership of professional contemporary Western Australian dance artists and seeks opportunities to promote, nurture and facilitate
- [The Laramie Project](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-laramie-project/) - In October 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie in Wyoming, USA savagely beaten and left to die. Matthew Shepard's death became an American symbol of intolerance but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal; it is their voices we hear in this extraordinary
- [Phaedra's Love](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/phaedras-love/) - Phaedra's Love is a breath-taking exploration of what it means to be human. Beneath all the horror and beauty of Sarah Kane's words lies the human condition in all its extremes, with themes that resonate powerfully today, in a world driven by extremism. Among contemporary playwrights, Sarah Kane is a giant. Singled-out as the most
- [The Goose Chase](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-goose-chase/) - WORLD PREMIERE An epic in miniature Under the direction of Matthew Lutton, ThinIce's major new work is The Goose Chase - a kaleidoscopic one-man show performed by longtime collaborator Eamon Flack. Edward Taylor's first novel was a raging hit. Now he's wordless, broke and stuck in transit in the tiny humid country he grew up
- [Didier Theron](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/didier-theron/) - Acclaimed French choreographer Didier Théron's two performances at PICA follow a creative development residency with Strut Dance and five Perth-based dancers/choreographers, including Sue Peacock, Sete Tele and Claudia Alessi. The evening of dance combines the residency outcome entitled The Tenants, followed bySelfportrait Raskolnikov, a solo work created and performed by Didier Théron around Fjodor Dostoyevsky's
- [The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-goat-or-who-is-sylvia/) - From one of America's greatest living playwrights (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), comes The Goat, or who is Sylvia? a startling and poignant black comedy that cuts to the heart of modern love. In the same week that high flying architect, Martin, receives an international prize and is awarded a very lucrative contract, he is
- [Inform](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/inform/) - pvi's elite good citizenry taskforce hits suburbia. In a city dominated by the car, local artist group pvi collective invite you to belt up, tune in and join the 'loyal citizens underground' on a road trip into Perth's sprawling urban growth as they mount a door knocking campaign on suburban surveillance. From dog fouling to drag
- [Questions Without Notice](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/questions-without-notice/) - Questions Without Notice is a work in progress; a response to a question. What happens when the body is placed in an unexpected, uncomfortable circumstance? Over the course of the season, up to eight performers negotiate their way through a structured improvisation. They video themselves, interview each other, come together in mutual consent and separate
- [Geoffrey Drake Brockman](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/geoffrey-drake-brockman/) - The beauty of a flower is simple, pure and joyful. The majesty of the annual - blooming for one short moment, before withering away - plays out the tragedy of life in a single act: 'we grow, we are beautiful, we die'. While the solitary flower domesticated in a pot is emblematic of a suburban
- [Neistat Brothers](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/neistat-brothers/) - Straight outta New York, PICA brings you a selection of works from the notorious Neistat Brothers. Famous for their seminal work 'iPod's Dirty Secret', Casey and Van Neistat have a penchant for troublemaking and mischief. Widely exhibited in both the art world and online, the brothers use the ubiquitous Sony digicam to make short works
- [Callum Morton](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/callum-morton/) - Tomorrow Land and more melds architectural models with mass cultural signifiers to produce charmingly irreverent architectural icons. This is a world where high culture converses with mass-market franchises, where apocalyptic landscapes are sugar coated with brand new fittings. Where else would you find a 7-Eleven Farnsworth House, or a futuristic Le Corbusier theme park? This
- [Vertigo](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/vertigo/) - A balance disorder that produces an uncontrollable spinning sensation, vertigo is a unique sensory experience that floods the mind and puts the individual off kilter. Nine Australasian artists tackle this sensation in Vertigo , an exhibition of sculpture, installation, painting, drawing and video. Investigating sensory experiences, temporality, change and impermanence, Vertigo incorporates works that employ
- [pink](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/pink/) - pink comprises new screen-based works by artists Helen Britton, Andrew Nicholls, Jacob Ogden Smith and Helen Smith which explore the relationships between the authentic and the artificial. Highlighted in these works are ideologies and identities where the 'real' and the 'simulated' intersect in politically charged ways; the messy realities that hamper the purity of political
- [I took a deep breath...](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/i-took-a-deep-breath/) - For the 3rd Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. PICA is proud to present I took a deep breath... , a selection of four artist project that respond to the 2007 theme of 'stillness'. These distinct and ambitious projects showcase intriguing intersections between art, technology and science, and bring together electronic art practices from a range
- [BankWest Contemporary Art Prize](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/bankwest-contemporary-art-prize/) - In its seventh year, the BankWest Contemporary Art Prize brings together a selection of Western Australia's finest contemporary artists for exhibition. A cross-section of contemporary two dimensional works in a variety of styles and techniques will be selected for showing and judged for the $15,000 First Prize (acquisitive) and in the running for the $2,000
- [Economy](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/economy/) - At each moment a battle is being planned, contested or decided - most remain anonymous while others gain enormous significance due to their impact on global relations. Economy is an installation-based exhibition that brings together nine West Australian artists to explore the theme of efficiency and its relevance in how we deal with conflict. Using
- [New Work 3](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/new-work-3/) - This exhibition brings together new works by three emerging artists from across Australia. It is an opportunity to profile the work of Australia's new talent, while celebrating the continual rise of video practice in Australia. Chris Bennie's new work The Alien's Back fits within the milieu of video works which, as the artist says 'revisits
- [Old Skool (never lose that feeling)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/old-skool-never-lose-that-feeling/) - A response to the rise of old skool styling in our contemporary culture, this interdisciplinary exhibition brings together nine Australian artists each critically examining of old skool stylings and personal implications. In the here and now, old skool rules aspects of skating (thanks to films such as Dogtown and Z-boys and Concrete Wave magazine); music
- [Rodney Glick](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/rodney-glick/) - PICA opens in 2007 with a new public pool! Come in from the heat, enjoy the cool of the blue water but make sure you follow the rules or no swimming for you! PICA Pool is a major new commission by Rodney Glick for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. The entire floor area of
- [School Holidays Photography Workshops](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/school-holidays-photography-workshops/) - Creative kids with an eye for photography and an insatiable love of technology are invited to PICA this school holidays for a very special workshop! The artists from Camera Story are running hands-on digital photography workshops inspired by PICA’s current exhibition Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process. Participants will learn to work with light, perspective and
- [Emma Hewitt](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emma-hewitt/) - During her residency Victorian artist Emma Hewitt will explore the multiple significances of fence lines and other boundary markers that crisscross the long open spaces of the Australian landscape. She will examine the poetics, symbolism and meaning of the fences we use to divide land and define and separate our lives. Her work points out
- [Cedric Bomford](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/cedric-bomford/) - During his residency Cedric Bomford has constructed an installation referencing a range of local and international historic sites and architectural features. His project is constructed from salvaged and used materials sourced locally. This installation builds on an ongoing body of work by Bomford that attempts to, as cultural theoretician Sarat Maharaj says: 'think through the
- [Tagny Duff](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tagny-duff/) - In popular culture, the virus, as a biological, molecular, cultural and digital entity, is often considered as a contagious and infectious intruder that must be combated and eliminated from host bodies. Contrary to popular belief, recent paleogenomic studies have discovered endogenous viral fossils in bodies (human, animal and plant) that date back millions of years
- [Elise/Jurgen](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/elisejurgen/) - Challenging the viewer to distinguish between performed, filmed and installation spaces Elise/Jürgen'sExercises in Impossible Space suggests new realms of spatial possibility free of geometry and gravity. At PICA this collaborative team will use new media, film and projection to probe our limited conceptualisation and embodied experience of space and time in the virtual age.
- [Roderick Sprigg](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/roderick-sprigg-2/) - 'How far away are you?' 'Can you move that?' 'What's your ETA?' 'How's it goin?' Across 40 channels of crackling static, clipped and fragmented exchanges of despatch information and never-quite-private but familiar conversations are narrowcast to who ever is listening. Two-way radios are a way of life for many regional communities and industries including families
- [Katri Walker](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/katri-walker/) - The Black Swan - An audio-visual installation, 18 mins HDV. Focusing on the multi-referential symbolism of the black swan as a contemporary universal concept, a symbol of Indigenous significance and a cross-continental historical icon connecting Europe with Australia, Scottish artist Katri Walker has created new work, through dialogue with curator Amy Sales, using this living
- [The Quiet Country (a dream play)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-quiet-country-a-dream-play/) - Mary Last was in a hurry. Mary Last was rushing to get home to the country when she had an accident. Now she's in an unfamiliar world of red-dry ochre earth, surrounded by long dead members of her family, trying to remember. Who was she trying to get to and why was it so important? The
- [The Adventures of Butt Boy and Tigger](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-adventures-of-butt-boy-and-tigger/) - Internet chatting has never been so filthy!! 'A wickedly funny look at online fantasy and filth...'Australian Stage Online The big ticket item of every Pride WA Festival, Melbourne's Out Cast Theatre are back in Perth direct from the Edinburgh Fringe and thrilled to bring you a limited season of this tasteless little treat. An outrageously
- [Her Aching Heart](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/her-aching-heart/) - Inspired by the writings of Daphne Du Maurier et al, Her Aching Heart is an historic romp of lesbian love and desire juxtaposed with a blossoming contemporary liaison. The beautiful Lady Harriet Helstone, ardent and wilful, encounters the gentle yet determined, Molly Penhallow and discovers love; a push-pull of passion and desire ensues amidst a
- [The Proscenium & Heroin(e)](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-proscenium-heroine/) - Two solo performances by internationally acclaimed theatremakers Margaret Cameron (VIC) and Dawn Albinger (QLD/WA). The Proscenium written & performed by Margaret Cameron A strikingly personal work where the audience is invited to witness the action of thought in its most elemental form. Cameron brings an astounding mix of vulnerability and forceful presence to this solo
- [Portraits of Modern Evil](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/portraits-of-modern-evil/) - Dirty green and yellow tram light reflects off the mud and rain of darkened streets in the winter of 1943. As World War II wears on to its bloody climax, Melbourne is invaded by its allies: an army of hard-drinking American soldiers living loudly and lewdly. Albert Tucker's painterly vision, absorbing the undercurrent of violence
- [D.A.S.H](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/d-a-s-h/) - A heady taste of diversity suffuses the original strivings of the Academy's young choreographers. These dance pieces mirror the concerns and optimism of young people 'taking off' in life. Although the works touch on pain and longing, the dancers invariably break through with vigour and daring that is their special privilege.
- [Civil](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/civil/) - Presented by PICA in association with pvi collective 'A seamless flow of beautifully crafted, intelligent image...' Live Art Magazine In 1996 Robert Pacitti travelled to New York to meet and spend time with the author, raconteur and professional homosexual Quentin Crisp. Pacitti's ambition was to produce a new theatre work that took Crisp's infamous autobiography
- [Fritz Hauser](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/fritz-hauser/) - Join Swiss drummer Fritz Hauser for two separate solo programs for drums and percussion. 'Hauser is simply one of the best drummers alive; when he's finished with one of his improvised concerts, you leave with a new understanding of his drums' anatomy, [and] their exact range of sound...' - The New York Times
- [Dale Gorfinkel & Rosalind Hall](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/dale-gorfinkel-rosalind-hall/) - Dale Gorfinkel has developed radical approaches to playing the vibraphone, while Rosalind Hall has developed a unique language by making modifications to the saxophone that radically changed the sound of and approach to the instrument. These two musicians join together for a one-off lecture and performance.
- [Paradise City](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/paradise-city/) - Some of Australia's finest performing artists battle it out in the hybrid urban landscape of Paradise City. A skater, a B-boy, a BMX-rider, an acrobat, a dancer and a fallen diva eat up the space in a fusion of street-style, dance and physical theatre. In an exhibition of raw energy and spectacular skills, the six
- [The Caucasian Chalk Circle](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/the-caucasian-chalk-circle/) - The Caucasian Chalk Circle, drawing on an ancient Chinese story, tells the deeply touching story of a servant girl who rescues a child of royal blood from a violent coup and becomes its surrogate mother. The play draws on all of Brecht's virtuosity and climaxes in a bizarre competition between the servant girl and the
- [Metadance in Resonant Light](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/metadance-in-resonant-light/) - A surreal dance experience that crosses the boundary between performance and installation, Metadance in Resonant Light celebrates the architectural beauty of dance and how it translates to text, animation and sound. Perception is disturbed as the fluid and sensual motion of dancers weave through waterfalls of light. The installation will be open to the public
- [John Wood & Paul Harrison](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/john-wood-paul-harrison/) - Apparently simple playful site-gags trigger spiraling, visually surprising conceits. Combining elements of performance and sculpture and exploiting the dynamic, often comic, possibilities that can be generated from a set of precisely articulated events and actions, UK artists John Wood and Paul Harrison's works are an on-going collection of experiments. And a kind of reference catalogue
- [Tom Muller](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/tom-muller/) - Combining a sense of global scale with a concentration on the minute Tom Mùller's Elemental Worlds confounds apparently commonsensical categories and disrupts the orderly ways we construct and understand our world. Presenting counter intuitive notions such as 'man-made nature', 'artificial landscapes' and 'nostalgic ideas of nature', Mùller's work is both highly topical and richly poetic.
- [Better Places](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/better-places/) - From the everyday reflex to suspect that the grass might be a little greener over our neighbour's fence, to the ambitious imaginings of utopias, this exhibition playfully explores our sense of hope and cynicism in the present, and our aspirations and dreams for a better place in the future. Featuring a range of established and
- [Michelle Ussher](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/michelle-ussher/) - Michelle Ussher's architectural installation Helovanorak explores the relationship between people and their surroundings. PICA's Westend Gallery will be transformed into a cathedral-like space containing a series of passages and rooms, the surfaces of which are tattooed with impressions from the artist's conscious and unconscious memory. Referencing Hector Guimard's and William Morris' Art Nouveau, and featuring
- [Gabriella & Silvana Mangano](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/gabriella-silvana-mangano/) - If ... so ... then, is drawn from the Mangano sisters childhood experiences of their intimate communication and almost telepathic connection. Filmed face-to-face the twins fluently draw around the periphery of each others body. At once inaccessible and peculiarly tender their intense hypnotic performance mimics the repetition of learning a new language. Layered and rich
- [Scary Movie](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/scary-movie/) - Bringing together four international artists Scary Movie explores ideas such as the 'uncanny' and 'fantastic' in film and video art. Curated by leading UK-based international artist and curator Richard Grayson, and featuring the highly celebrated video work Sleeper by 2007 Turner Prize Winner, Mark Wallinger, Scary Movie focuses on modes of the moving image such
- [Australian Gothic: Video Art Now](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/australian-gothic-video-art-now/) - Well before Australia was charted it was 'imagined as a grotesque space peopled by monsters'. Early settlers found their new land eerie, disorientingly unfamiliar and hostile - a response which became ingrained in our national consciousness, literature and cinema. Tapping into these 'gothic' traditions and unsettling imaginings the fourteen artists featured inAustralian Gothic: Video Art
- [Julie Dowling](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/julie-dowling/) - Making her first foray into multi-media, Julie Dowling is a Perth based Badimaya artist known for her paintings detailing land, country and family. At once gentle and incisive, this installation is both a self-portrait and a wider history. It reveals an unfolding personal journey and offers glimpses of her physical and spiritual reconnection with her
- [An Ever Expanding Universe](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/an-ever-expanding-universe/) - Featuring exquisite miniatures, work grounded in both Indigenous and Buddhist traditions, images of the cosmos and contemporary abstraction An Ever Expanding Universe brings together a constellation of ten leading artists. Exploring some of the diverse traditions and cultural histories that shape contemporary Australia this exhibition journeys into the universe of painting today.
- [Gail Hastings](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/gail-hastings/) - While Perth-born artist Gail Hastings is known as a sculptor, her Sculptural Situations are neither the traditional image we have of sculpture nor are they installation, but specific spaces where the process of perceiving, understanding and taking action takes central place. Building upon her well received 2007 Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition 'I
- [Louise Hubbard](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/louise-hubbard/) - Hack Work is a series of episodes in the systematic training of a three centimetre finely moulded rubber horse. The horse is subjected to horrific acts of control and duress, measure and fitness as its body is variously hurled, pulled, squashed and dropped into a field of obstacles. The action is manipulated from behind the
- [Emily Wardill](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/emily-wardill/) - Highly stylised and enigmatic, Ben, an award winning film by London based artist Emily Wardill's film Ben , references two case studies on the nature of hallucination and paranoia. Shot in colour, but appearing black and white, Ben is a precariously balanced psychoanalytic puzzle that eludes resolution.
- [Dominic Redfern](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/dominic-redfern/) - Dominic Redfern presents two major new video works at PICA; Stonewall and Mythos. Drawing on traditions of both video and performance art, Redfern uses self-portraiture, fiction and documentary to explore the intersection of site, screen and identity. Shot in 2008 for a solo exhibition at the Centre d' Art Marnay in rural France, Stonewall extends
- [Adam Geczy](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/adam-geczy/) - Evoking 60s and 70s video art, Adam Geczy's Concerts explores themes of collaboration, friendship, contemplation and empathy through music. These two video works involve two of Geczy's friends and collaborators, Peter Sculthorpe, Australia's foremost living composer and Mike Parr, one of the nation's leading conceptual artists. One work depicts Geczy being taught a sonata for
- [Benjamin Armstrong](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/benjamin-armstrong/) - This is the first solo exhibition in a public gallery by one of the most interesting Australian artists to emerge in recent years. Strangely beautiful and fascinatingly repulsive, Benjamin Armstrong's mysterious glass and wax sculptures are immediately suggestive of mythical waterborne creatures or future pre-historical life-forms. Hold Everything Dear: Benjamin Armstrong features three major new
- [Intimate Acts](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/intimate-acts/) - Searching philosophical exchanges, fleeting glimpses and peephole voyeurism, Intimate Acts brings together a range of performative, video and photographic works that provide a glimpse into the nature of intimacy, desire and the suggestive power of the imagination. Drawing together national and international artists, this exhibition explores the social, physical and psychic relations between subjects.
- [Lucy Quinn](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/lucy-quinn/) - Canberra based artist Lucy Quinn's poetic and sensuous video Vessel vessel pictures droplets of ink dispersing into water. Projected vertically from the ceiling to the floor, this engaging and mesmerising moving image work explores the interplay of interior and exterior space, body and architecture, permanence and transience.
- [Brendan van Hek](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/brendan-van-hek/) - Is truth eternal or is it just a product of its circumstance and a moment in time? Nationally recognised WA artist Brendan van Hek brings great American poet Emily Dickinson together with inventor of the lie detector (polygraph) William Moulton Marstan and his comic-book character Wonder Woman in a major new installation. A Certain Slant
- [Oscar Munoz](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/oscar-munoz/) - Acclaimed as one of Latin America's most significant living artists, Oscar Muñoz alludes to 50 years of political and social turmoil in his native Columbia in this his first Australian solo exhibition. Described by the prestigious UK magazine Apollo as 'beautiful and mysterious, little miracles and apparitions' Muñoz's art raises questions about the nature of
- [Motel Deception](https://pica.org.au/whats-on/motel-deception/) - Jambird and Blue Moon Film and Video take up residence at the Performance Space in January for the creative development of Motel Deception, a physical theatre and film work directed by Chrissie Parrott, based on 'Underpass Motel' by Stuart Elliott. Riddled with vague promises, innuendo and implication this is a noir style romantic drama full

## Categories

- [News](https://pica.org.au/category/news/)
- [Video](https://pica.org.au/category/video/)
- [Essay](https://pica.org.au/category/essay/)
- [Interview](https://pica.org.au/category/interview/)
- [Audio](https://pica.org.au/category/audio/)

## Tags

- [body of knowledge](https://pica.org.au/tag/body-of-knowledge/)
- [perth festival](https://pica.org.au/tag/perth-festival/)
- [performance](https://pica.org.au/tag/performance/)
- [contemporary performance](https://pica.org.au/tag/contemporary-performance/)
- [theatre for young people](https://pica.org.au/tag/theatre-for-young-people/)
- [Media Release](https://pica.org.au/tag/media-release/)
- [Judy Wheeler](https://pica.org.au/tag/judy-wheeler/)
- [no numb bums](https://pica.org.au/tag/no-numb-bums/)
- [philanthropy](https://pica.org.au/tag/philanthropy/)
- [Robert Andrew](https://pica.org.au/tag/robert-andrew/)
- [Rosa Barba](https://pica.org.au/tag/rosa-barba/)
- [Archie Barry](https://pica.org.au/tag/archie-barry/)
- [Elizabeth Willing](https://pica.org.au/tag/elizabeth-willing/)
- [Hatched](https://pica.org.au/tag/hatched/)
- [Marrugeku](https://pica.org.au/tag/marrugeku/)
- [Job Opportunity](https://pica.org.au/tag/job-opportunity/)
- [Diana Baker Smith](https://pica.org.au/tag/diana-baker-smith/)
- [catastrophes](https://pica.org.au/tag/catastrophes/)
- [First Nations Advisory Group](https://pica.org.au/tag/first-nations-advisory-group/)
- [News](https://pica.org.au/tag/news/)
- [Mediarelease](https://pica.org.au/tag/mediarelease/)
- [Paul Knight](https://pica.org.au/tag/paul-knight/)
- [Joel Bray](https://pica.org.au/tag/joel-bray/)
- [Shannon Te Ao](https://pica.org.au/tag/shannon-te-ao/)

## Hatched Categories

- [Schenberg Art Awardee](https://pica.org.au/hatched-category/schenberg-art-awardee/)
- [Alumni List](https://pica.org.au/hatched-category/alumni-list/)

## Show Tags

- [Hatched](https://pica.org.au/show-tag/hatched-tag/)
- [2026](https://pica.org.au/show-tag/2026/)

## Show Category

- [Performance](https://pica.org.au/show-category/performance/) - Performances PICA curates an annual program of contemporary performance, including dance, theatre, experimental performance, sound and music. Our performance seasons include new commissions, touring shows, one-off experiences and creative developments. PICA works closely with performance artists and companies who are committed to pushing the boundaries of their genre and presenting works that are conceptually, formally and technologically rigorous. PICA’s program of performance includes the work of WA, national and international artists. PICA provides a site for experimentation, critical analysis, discussion and debate. We work with artists at all stages of their careers, including an annual partnership with WAAPA to support new graduates. As the home for contemporary performance in Perth, PICA is committed to enabling an ecology of performance practice that grows and develops through diversity, challenging perspectives and experimental creative forms. Online you will find information on our upcoming and past performance seasons, including booking and ticketing information.
- [Events](https://pica.org.au/show-category/events/) - Events PICA presents a range of events that complement our seasonal artistic program and include talks, performances, workshops and our regular PICA After Hours program. These events focus on expanding and exploring the ideas that thread throughout each PICA season, providing avenues for audiences of all backgrounds to engage more closely with art and ideas. Weekends at PICA platforms artists’ voices, presenting opportunities for audiences to hear directly from artists and local thinkers about their practices, works and connections. PICA’s Open Studio events invite audiences into PICA After Hours for behind-the-scenes visits with our Resident artists. At these events, the participating artists – working across art forms and coming from Perth, interstate and overseas – share their projects and reflect on their studio experiences. PICA After Hours is a highlight in our annual program that takes place several times throughout the year and across our four seasons of programming. These night time events celebrate the work of local musicians and create a convivial space for experiencing art and culture in Perth. Through PICA’s events we aim to connect artists and audiences in meaningful ways, reflecting the diverse approaches of the artists we work with and sharing art’s power to transform.
- [Exhibitions](https://pica.org.au/show-category/exhibitions/) - Exhibitions PICA’s exhibition program takes place over four seasons each year, with each season thematically focused to draw connections between disparate artists and practices and to encourage deeper audience engagement. PICA works with artists at all stages of their careers, from recent graduates in our annual flagship Hatched: National Graduate Show to mid-career solo exhibitions, guest curated group exhibitions and major commissions. These exhibitions, along with moving image works shown in our dedicated Screen Space, showcase the work of artists from Western Australia and across the globe, offering a range of narratives and perspectives. As a site for the production of new art and ideas, PICA supports artists and curators to develop, produce and present work driven by the critical issues of our time. At PICA both artists and audiences are encouraged to take risks, explore new and emerging art forms, and experiment with ideas.
- [Workshops](https://pica.org.au/show-category/workshops/)
- [Activity](https://pica.org.au/show-category/activity/)
- [Artist Talk](https://pica.org.au/show-category/artist-talk/)
- [Perth Festival](https://pica.org.au/show-category/perth-festival/)
- [Judy Wheeler Commission](https://pica.org.au/show-category/judy-wheeler-commission/)
- [Learning](https://pica.org.au/show-category/learning/) - PICA’s learning program is designed to foster creativity and innovation through hands-on experience with contemporary art. PICA brings students and teachers up close and personal with contemporary artists, dancers, theatre-makers, musicians and innovators across a wide range of disciplines through an exciting program of events, activities and online resources. Your primary and secondary school students can connect with contemporary art and ideas through tours designed to link to the curriculum. Comprehensive Education Notes for previous exhibitions are available below. Contact Jenn Garland – Learning, People & Culture Manager education@pica.org.au or 9228 6309
- [Kids and Families](https://pica.org.au/show-category/kids-and-families/)
- [Archive](https://pica.org.au/show-category/archive/) - Archive PICA has a thirty-plus year history of exhibitions, performance, dance, sound, experimentation, studios, creative developments, and more. You’ll find many of our projects documented online in our archive, including visual documentation, commissioned texts, audio recordings, video interviews and various announcements.
- [Resident Artists](https://pica.org.au/show-category/resident-artists/) - Residencies PICA’s Studio Program is dedicated to cultivating artistic practice and community. Through four year-round studio streams, the program provides artists with the time, space and support needed for focused studio work, experimentation, research and creative development without the pressure of an outcome. PICA’s residencies welcome local artists and collectives through an open call for applications twice a year. We encourage applications from creative practitioners whose work is conceptually, formally and/or technologically ambitious, experimental and contributes to the evolution of contemporary culture and arts practice. PICA’s Company-In-Residence program is a three-year residency for a small arts organisation or company, sharing space, resources and forming collaborative communities of solidarity within the building. Our Quick Response Residencies offer space for 1-4 weeks for artists to test an idea or experiment with new materials. Our Hyper Local Residencies offer two 6-month residencies to mid-career artists annually, offering sustained time and space to develop an ambitious new project. The International Studio Exchange Program provides opportunities for WA artists to undertake residencies with partner organisations in Taipei, Taiwan; Makassar, Indonesia; and New Delhi, India, while hosting an artist at PICA from each location. This program provides artists with the opportunity to travel, expand their professional networks, reach new audiences and access international markets. A residency at PICA offers artists the opportunity to embark on new projects, connect with peers, engage in critical dialogue and expand their audience. Located in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar Country, the program encourages residents to reflect on the social, cultural and political histories and futures that shape this place and their own artistic practice. In 2026, PICA will support over 50 artists through its studio program, including through partnerships with Performing Lines WA, Edith Cowan University and WAAPA. Additionally, our International Studio Program will support WA artists to undertake residencies in Taipei, Makassar and New Delhi, with PICA hosting visiting artists from these cities and interstate in partnership with North Metropolitan TAFE.
- [Free](https://pica.org.au/show-category/free/)
- [Wheelchair Accessible](https://pica.org.au/show-category/wheelchair-accessible/)
- [PICA HUb](https://pica.org.au/show-category/pica-hub/)
- [PICA Hub](https://pica.org.au/show-category/pica-hub-pica-hub/)