A Festival of Community Arts and Space Activation supported by Maribyrnong City Council
04 May - 19 May 2024
SLEEPLESS FESTIVAL
ROGRAMME SEASON 2023
Music
Organica
Fri June 30, 6pm-11pm
Footscray Baptist Church, 60 Paisley St, Footscray
A rich tapestry of pipe organ, dreamscape, cosmic drone, cinematic euphoria and microcosmic texture will be served with love and care to fill your senses and nourish your soul. Ft. Puscha, Zoltan Fresco, Helen Svoboda, Sofia Carbonara, Pat Telfer and more
From Now Om
Fri June 23, 7:30pm-8:45pm
Footscray Baptist Church, 60 Paisley St, Footscray
From Now OM is an audio-visual performance, incorporating a chord created from singing the first six notes of the harmonic series at the beginning of the performance. This cathedral of sounds acts as a sonic backdrop to performances by three master melody creators.
Do. Happen.
Sun June 18, 2pm-4pm
Sleepless Festival Hub - 170 Nicholson Street
Spearheaded by piano and trumpet virtuoso Liam O'Neill, and accompanied by a stellar cast of musicians and visual artists, Do. Happen is a defiance of the separation between not only performer and audience, but duality as a whole...
Carpal Tunnel Single Launch + Stargazed Records Showcase
Sat July 1, 7pm-11pm
Mamma Chen's
42A Albert St, Footscray
Eccentric Post Punk heroes Carpal Tunnel launch their latest single, complete with a multimedia performance and support from fellow Stargazed Record stable mates Genuine Fake and Town Ace.
Immersive Experiences
Immersive Sound Journeying
June 28 & 29, Book Online
SLEEPLESS Festival Hub
170 Nicholson St, Footscray
Combining the sound bathing and installation modalities, Ash Di Va and Troy Rainbow create a space where your inner experience of sound is the focal point.
Each session has a strict capacity of 5 people.
UnKnowing Madness
Ongoing: Book Online
Metro West Mall, 47 Paisley St Footscray
Renowned Victorian sound artist Thembi Soddell has adapted their acousmatic composition, UnKnowing Madness, to an intimate installation to be experienced by one audience member at a time - on a bed, in complete darkness.
Ticket bookings essential for this one-at-a-time, one-of-a-kind experience.
Theatre
Cafe Play!
Ongoing: Book Online
SLEEPLESS Festival Hub
170 Nicholson St, Footscray
Café Play is a one-of-a-kind experience that will force you out of your comfort zone and invert the ‘audience-actor’ boundaries that you’ve become accustomed to.
INTERSECTION
June 17, 7pm-9pm
Nicholson St. Mall, Footscray
Interested and non-interested parties gather at a certain location on a certain date and time, but what is not certain is what may occur and who is or is not participating.
Space Activations / Installations (All FREE)
During the dates of the festival, several sites and shops will be activated.
Vijay Thillaiimuthu - Conduit
Visible 24 hours a day
Metro West Mall, 47 Paisley St Footscray
Conduit develops and expresses electromagnetic fields as sound and light through initiating interactions in fluorescent lights with electrical current. The work draws on the cinematic device of using flickering lights to denote a presence of the supernatural.
Charlotte Vignau - Beth
10 - 6pm every day
Metro West Mall, 47 Paisley St Footscray
Beth is a sculptural installation featuring the artist’s body parts alongside geometrical shapes. The artist aims to reclaim the body as a powerful tool for narrative, beyond the constraints of existing social constructs.
64 Ways of Being - Night Arcade - Troy Innocent / Aaron Martin
Visible 24 hours. Arcade open until 8pm every day.
119 Hopkins St Footscray
64 Ways of Being - Night Arcade activates a forgotten 1960's shopping arcade with a painting installation and augmented reality coded artworks.
64 Ways of Being - Night Arcade is available daily but best enjoyed after hours (note Arcade access is available to 8pm) (Lightboxes available daily but best viewed after dark) please note - the 64 ways of being app is a free download.
An Intimate Space for Newly Weds
Visible 24 hrs a day
145 Nicholson St. Footscray
This 3-channel video work, titled 'An Intimate Space for Newlyweds' combines several methods of imaging, including photogrammetry, 3D modelling and data visualisation, among others. It has been produced specifically for the SLEEPLESS Festival.
Nikhil James Arlo - Restless
10 - 6pm every day
Metro West Mall, 47 Paisley St Footscray
There are places in which the body finds rest, yet these places also play host to periods of immense unrest. A pillow can be a place of calm, yet also a place of isolation, torment and sleepless nights. A chair can be a place that slows the body down to assist contemplation, or a place of incoherent thought.
SCATTER - Carla Zimbler
17th June - 01st July
Metro West Mall, 47 Paisley St Footscray
SCATTER is a video work - a study of atmospheric optical phenomena, celestial bodies and metamorphosing orbs. Visible 24 hours a day at 58 Irving St Footscray.
The Sleepless Hub Happenings
Each evening, the SLEEPLESS Hub transforms into a pop-up venue and bar - a space for experimental works, works-in-progress, artist talks, live podcasts and other odd offerings:
Exp West
July 1, 7:30pm - 12am
Shame File Music curates a survey/carnival of experimental sound and generally fucked up music from the western suburbs. A riot of tone scientists, sonic explorers, outsiders, musical ratbags, and the relentlessly curious share their wares in a sideshow of the west’s musical underground. Including: Whitehorse, Clinton Green, Maltese Well Monster + Friends, Deep Sneeze.
The Coming of Babaur - Isha Menon
June 19, 7pm-8:30pm
Maribyrnong ArtsBox Artist In Residence, Isha Menon brings scenes and readings of their upcoming work 'The Coming of Babaur', an acerbic satire that combines social commentary with the surreal and fantastical. Our cast of ordinary people tackle the impossible; the End of the World. Get up close and personally with the creative process.
Imitate Life. Be Content.
Various times across festival period
'Imitate Life. Be Content' is a performance work which interrogates entrenched issues within the creative sphere. Hosted by artist Alex Mansell, watch and be involved as the undirected and organic creativity of life is commodified into online content.
Nocturnal Film Festival
22nd & 25th June
Rentyhouse and Sleepless Present: Nocturnal Film Festival
Nocturnal Film Festival celebrates the weird, the macabre, the offbeat and the just plain silly.
Presented over two evenings during the Sleepless Footscray Festival, we'll be screening the best and bizarrest that Melbourne filmmakers have to offer!
Free Entry At the Sleepless Festival Hub, 170 Nicholson St, Footscray
