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25.01.2022 Step inside Colectivo Ayllu's installation at Artspace...This work 'don't blame us for what happened' is a collaborative research and artistic political action group formed by migrants, people of color, queer and sexual-gender dissidents from the ex-Spanish colonies. Their brave installation draws upon long memories of colonial pain and inserts contemporary realities of violence from the new dogs of racist institutionalised practice that most do not experience. This oppr...ession from the border to the detention centre to modern technologies of control is for the collective an extremely difficult and stressful way of living in the world. As they express: In 2020 we, Black and Indigenous sodomites, are still alive and with wounds we dance the pain away. Experience the 22nd Biennale of Sydney at Artspace until 27 September: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/artspace/

25.01.2022 LIVE TONIGHT AT 7 PM. Originally, our partnership with 4Elements HipHop Project - 4ESydney planned to host the 4ESydney HipHop Festival at Cockatoo Island (among other events), that explored the themes of NIRIN. These moments were set to foster environments from within, to hear and experience formidable and poetic responses to our times, collecting and generating cultural knowledge through collaboration, participation and truth-telling unique to the HipHop artform. Now, we g...o digital, featuring HipHop and spoken word artist Luka Lesson and rapper, drummer DOBBY. DOBBY will present his first ever showing, a work in progress, of WARRANGU; River Story, an incredible new body of work that DOBBY has been creating over the last few years, since being awarded the 2017 Peter Sculthorpe Fellowship by Create NSW. 'WARRANGU; River Story' forms a collection of cultural knowledge of the three rivers that form the surrounding tribal boundaries in Brewarrina, New South Wales, constituting a journey back home and connection to culture by returning to the country where his grandmother and her father were born. No gimmicks, no beats, just LUKA LESSON at his lyrical best as he rolls through a complex set of killer acapella rap verses and poetic pieces. Showcasing older pieces like A to Z and Killing Time, as well as taking the poem that won him the Australian Poetry Slam: The Confluence out of retirement. Luka also premieres a new piece entitled Economic Violence, inspired by the Black Lives Movement. #4ESydney #Biennale #NIRIN - Presented by Vyva Entertainment Major Partners: Create NSW & Australia Council for the Arts Presented in partnership with Biennale of Sydney Venue partner: Campbelltown Arts Centre See more

25.01.2022 This exclusive In Conversation brings together Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama and Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani for the first time for a one-hour webinar to explore the relationship between their works. The conversation will be moderated by Human Rights Watch Director, Elaine Pearson. BOOK NOW: https://bit.ly/3k1QbPm

24.01.2022 Earlier today we announced Colombian curator José Roca as the Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022) Rocas work is heavily influenced by the relationship between art and nature and the 23rd Biennale of Sydney will have a strong focus on sustainability and collaboration. His concept for the next edition will be developed and realised by a team of curators the Curatorium who represent the Biennale of Sydneys core exhibition partners including: José Roca..., Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney Paschal Daantos Berry, Head of Learning and Participation, Art Gallery of New South Wales Anna Davis, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Hannah Donnelly, Producer, First Nations Programs, Information + Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.) Talia Linz, Curator, Artspace READ MORE: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art//me/23rd-ad-announcement/ In addition to the Curatorium of Australian curators, Roca will reduce the environmental impact of the Biennale limiting international travel during the research process by working with a worldwide network of colleagues, (re)producing works locally, and working inter-institutionally to optimise resources. Roca will move to Sydney as soon as travel restrictions permit and stay for the entire duration of the process. (clockwise from top left): Paschal Daantos Berry, Anna Davis (by Anna Kucera), Hannah Donnelly (by Zan Wimberley), Talia Linz

24.01.2022 Could this weekends weather be more perfect for heading out to Cockatoo Island to experience the 22nd Biennale of Sydney? Only 9 days left to experience #NIRIN2020 on Cockatoo Island! Plan your trip: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/ Remember, the best way to get to Cockatoo Island is by ferry from Barangaroo. Additional shuttle ferries will run between Barangaroo and Cockatoo Island from 9.45 am to 6 pm on weekends only. Please be mindful that that ferries to the Island have capacity restrictions to ensure safe physical distancing between passengers.

24.01.2022 Iltja Ntjarra artist Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala, Clara Inkamala and Mervyn Rubuntja discuss NIRIN and their collective work, 'Homeless on my Homeland'. ltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre is based in Mparntwe Alice Springs and supports the Hermannsburg School style of watercolour artists who continue to paint in the tradition of their grandfather and relative, the famous great Australian Aboriginal Artist of the 20th Century Albert Namatjira. You can still see their w...ork at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace Campbelltown Arts Centre and Carriageworks as part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN. Video: Desart Inc. Produced in the context of the Desert Mob symposium

24.01.2022 For National NAIDOC Week (@naidocweek) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (@mca_australia), NIRIN Artist and Gomeroi yinnar photographer Barbara McGrady (@barbsmac123) will discuss this year’s theme, ‘Always Was, Always Will Be,’ with an online panel of esteemed speakers and Aboriginal rights activists. Guests include Pastor Ossie Cruse, Professor Lyndall Ryan and photographer Barbara McGrady, who will bring their considerable knowledge and experience to discuss how ...the theme pertains to their life work and areas of expertise. The panel will be moderated by Keith Munro, MCA Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs. At the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, Barbara McGrady presented works from her dense, interconnected and expansive photographic archive that capture moments of protest and remembrance, and that frequently centre Indigenous stories and activism, while parsing the local, national and global within a single frame. Follow the link below to register for the online panel discussion. * Images: Barbara McGrady (with John Janson-Moore), Ngiyaningy Maran Yaliwaunga Ngaara-li (Our Ancestors Are Always Watching), 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Campbelltown Arts Centre. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Zan Wimberley. (@zanwimberley) Barbara McGrady, Black Lives Matter, Martin Place, 2015. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Art Gallery of New South Wales. Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts. Photograph: Alex Robinson. https://tickets.mca.com.au/Default.aspx?Event=119014 #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #mca #NAIDOC2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe

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19.01.2022 Using different kinds of media, Fátima Rodrigo Gonzalez's work, 'Sabado Gigante (Gigantic Saturday)', at Artspace Sydney explores the representation of modernism and gender identity through different devices such as architecture, modern art and pop culture. You can still visit the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, at Artspace until 27 September.

19.01.2022 This Saturday, join the Feminist Killjoys Reading Group in a two-hour workshop querying the potentialities of abolitionist futures: Who does the prison-industrial complex serve? Why do we still have prisons? How do we listen to incarcerated voices? FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK: http://bit.ly/biennaleparifkrg Feminist Killjoys Reading Group (FKRG) is a growing community of people who identify as feminist killjoys, or who wish to learn more about the figure of the feminist killjoy. Started by Rajni Shah in 2017, and inspired by Sara Ahmeds blog Feminist Killjoys, they ask what the world would be like if conversations did not begin with assumptions based on masculinity and whiteness, but with queerness, colour, and a deep commitment to listening.

19.01.2022 1 WEEK TO GO! The 22nd Biennale of Sydney closes on Cockatoo Island this Sunday. https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/ Were counting down the final week with a selection of your favourite works. ... This work by Lhola Amira Philisa: Ditaola addresses the wounds left by colonisation across many disparate contexts, to create spaces for healing through connection to the earth, the ancestral, and the spiritual. Here, Amira creates portals for memory and rejuvenation, with ceremonial healing beds of salt, and the sounds of singing, to listen and remember. #NIRIN2020 Image: Lhola Amira, Philisa: Ditaola, 2018-20. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from the Sherman Foundation, and assistance from NIRIN 500 patrons. Courtesy the artist and SMAC Gallery, Cape Town / Johannesburg / Stellenbosch. Photograph: Jessica Maurer.

18.01.2022 José Roca, Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), has landed in Australia! Yesterday José visited the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in Katoomba and experienced the exhibition titled Critical Mass: The Art of Planetary Health. José described Katoomba as a small city with big plans for a sustainable future. Check out José’s Instagram account @joseroca1962 to follow him as he discovers more about Australia’s art, culture, landscape and future!... Images: Janet Laurence The Memory of Nature, 2010 Mixed media installation Daniel O'Shane Aib ene Zogo Ni Pat (Aib and the Sacred Waterhole), 2015 Vilylcut, hand wiped and coloured

18.01.2022 5 DAYS TO GO! The 22nd Biennale of Sydney closes on Cockatoo Island this weekend. https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/ Were counting down the final week with a selection of your favourite works. ... Mohamed Bourouissas meditative yellow sound installation reflects on his childhood memories of the Acacia tree, commonly referred to in Australia as the wattle tree. Known for its golden-yellow flowers, this plant is for the artist a romantic link to his childhood in Algeria. Bourouissa collaborated with MC Kronic (a Waddi Waddi man of the Yuin Nation and local hip-hop/rap artist, activist and poet), Nardean (an Egyptian-Australian MC, poet, singer and songwriter) and French sound designer and programmer Jordan Quiqueret to transform the active energy frequencies of the living Acacia into audible, rhythmic frequencies. Together, the Acacia speak of colonial truths in a mesmerising form. The symphonic vibrations generated by these plants invite a quiet contemplation of ideas of localisation and globalisation, as well as relocation and colonialisms. Images: Mohamed Bourouissa, Brutal Family Roots, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Oranges & Sardines Foundation; assistance from the Ambassade de France en Australie; Institut Français; and the Council for Australia-Arab Relations. This artwork was created through an artist residency at the Bundanon Trust. Courtesy the artist; Kamel Mennour, Paris; and Blum and Poe, Los Angeles. Audio collaboration with Jordan Quinqueret, Nardean and MC Kronic

16.01.2022 As part of their 'Plastic Free Biennale' project, Biennale artists Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams have produced a "virtual" Microplastics Citizen Science Field Trip, featuring UOW: University of Wollongong, Australia microplastics researcher Nuwanthi Kanchana. In the video, Nuwanthi takes us through the basics, searching for the dastardly coloured fragments on a Wollongong beach. Check out the video on the Plastic Free Biennale blog linked below.

16.01.2022 GOING LIVE TONIGHT DOBBY will present his first ever showing, a work in progress, of WARRANGU; River Story. No gimmicks, no beats, just LUKA LESSON at his lyrical best as he rolls through a complex set of killer acapella rap verses and poetic pieces

15.01.2022 Tomorrow! Tickets are limited, book now: https://bit.ly/3k1QbPm Join Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani in conversation with Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama. This exclusive one-hour webinar will be moderated by Human Rights Watch Director, Elaine Pearson.

15.01.2022 NIRIN NAARM Artist Panel Discussion | 14 November 2020 at 4 pm. Join Brook Andrew, Artistic Director, 22nd Biennale of Sydney, for an online panel discussion with exhibiting NIRIN NAARM artists, including Victoria Hunt, Justin Shoulder, James Tylor and with further artists to be announced. Register through the link below!... * https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nirin-naarm-artists-panel-d Image: Salote Tawale, Super, 2003. Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Courtesy the artist.

15.01.2022 Congratulations to Brian Fuata who is the winner of the 2020 Anti Festival International Prize for Live Art! Brian Fuata’s work across various modes of presentation is framed through structured/timed improvisation that dialogues directly with his audience. He performed a riveting monologue for the Jury via Zoom and for a live audience at Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival in Sydney, each time carefully considering the mode of reception for his audience. For the 22nd Bien...nale of Sydney, Brian Fuata presented one of the last performances for NIRIN, with Ibrahim Mahama’s work as the backdrop. Brian Fuata’s ‘Apparitional Charlatan’ is a ghostly summation of Cockatoo Island, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney and a mediation on the end of things. Often accompanied by simple props such as a white sheet or a lone microphone, Brian’s ghost series is a part stream of consciousness poetry and part exorcism of lived histories. As the 2020 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, Brian Fuata is the 7th winner of the prestigious prize during the ANTI Prize Party in Kuopio, Finland. Find out more: https://www.liveartprize.com/ * #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #brianfuata Image: Sharon Mifsud

15.01.2022 FINAL DAY! The 22nd Biennale of a Sydney, titled NIRIN, closes today on Cockatoo Island and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. We cant wait to welcome everyone to the Island for our last day today! https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/ Remember! The easiest way to get here is via the direct ferry from Barangaroo.... Additional shuttle ferries will run between Barangaroo and Cockatoo Island from 9.45 am to 6 pm this weekend. Please be mindful that ferries are typically busiest on weekends, especially Sundays. Be aware that ferries have capacity restrictions to ensure safe physical distancing between passengers. If a ferry has reached capacity, you will need to wait for the next service with available seating. Image: Ibrahim Mahama, No Friend but the Mountains 2012-2020, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from Anonymous, and assistance from White Cube. Courtesy the artist; Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia and White Cube, London / Hong Kong. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.

15.01.2022 Join our team! We're looking for a Digital Producer who will build on our strong online growth in 2020 to engage new and current audiences across all digital platforms including social media, podcasting and the Biennale of Sydney website. Applications close 5pm, Monday 30 November. ... Find out more and how to apply on our website through the link below. Alex Robinson #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/about-us/#join-the-team

13.01.2022 NIRIN NAARM presents the work of artists from Australia, Aoteroa/New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Haiti, Kashmir, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, USA and elsewhere. It is set against a number of increasingly urgent social, cultural and political contexts and backdrops, such as the climate crisis and devastating bushfires in Australia and Brazil; the current global pandemic; and in solidarity with global activism related to the Black Lives Matters movement, which has underscored loca...l and global histories of violence and discrimination, along with questions of justice, truth-telling, reconciliation and reparation. Artists featured: Tony Albert Maria Thereza Alves Denilson Baniwa Colectivo Ayllu/ Migrantes Transgresorxs Andre Eugene Arthur Jafa Musa N Nxumalo Justin Shoulder Trent Walter and Stuart Geddes Warwick Thornton Teresa Margolles 15 Screens (Saroeun Blong, Moara Brasil and Janau, The Colli Crew, Victoria Hunt, IraQueer, Chhouk Loeurn and Pring Proel, Lean Mang and Vunneng Land, Vet Mourng, Rehab Nazzal, Rany, Phok, Sithort Ret, Syed Shahriyar, Adrian Stimson, Salote Tawale, James Tylor) NIRIN NAARM is online at ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art from 1015 November. Follow the link below to find out more. * Image: Justin Shoulder, AEON: EP I, 2020. Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from the Powerhouse Museum. Courtesy the artist. #ACCAMelbourne #NIRINNAARM #ArtStartsAtACCA #NIRIN2020 #BiennaleOfSydney https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/nirin-naarm/

13.01.2022 PREMIERE | Bhenji Ra, ‘The Offering (Pang Alay)’ Subscribe to the Biennale’s YouTube to Premiere 5PM tomorrow, Friday 13 November (link below) For the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Filipina Australian artist Bhenji Ra (@newgenderwhodis) engages Tausug Elder and Pangalay mastr Sitti Obeso from southern Philippines in performative conversation.... Bhenji Ra is a transdisciplinary artist currently based on Gadigal land, Eora Nation. Her practice combines dance, video, illustration and community activation. Her work dissects cultural theory and identity, centralising her own personal histories as a tool to reframe performance. She is the mother of Western Sydney based collective and ballroom house SLÉ. https://youtu.be/ujZdRS05GrI * Bhenji Ra, The Offering (Pang Alay), 2020. Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), with generous assistance from the Powerhouse Museum. Courtesy of the artist. #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #biennale

13.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT... After an extensive international search, the Biennale of Sydney is delighted to announce Colombian curator José Roca as the Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, which will take place 12 March 13 June 2022. https://www.biennaleofsydney.art//me/23rd-ad-announcement/ José Roca is the Artistic Director of the non-for-profit contemporary art space FLORA ars+natura in his home city of Bogotá. Rocas work is heavily influenced by the relationship be...tween art and nature and the 23rd Biennale of Sydney will have a strong focus on sustainability and collaboration. His concept for the next edition will be developed and realised by a team of curators the Curatorium who represent the Biennale of Sydneys core exhibition partners including: - José Roca, Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney - Paschal Daantos Berry, Head of Learning and Participation, Art Gallery of New South Wales - Anna Davis, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia - Hannah Donnelly, Producer, First Nations Programs, Information + Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.) - Talia Linz, Curator, Artspace

13.01.2022 Tony Albert’s NIRIN artwork ‘Healing land, remembering Country’ has a new home! To celebrate the opening of Tony Albert’s (@tonyalbert) art installation ‘Healing land, remembering Country’ at Elizabeth Farm and to celebrate NAIDOC Week 2020: Always was, always will be, Sydney Living Museums (@sydlivmus) invites you to join them for a free community opening event on Saturday 14 November from 10am-2pm. Tony Albert describes ‘Healing land, remembering Country’ as a project ‘full... of love and reflection’. It expands on a work that he created in 2018 at the site of the former Blacktown Native Institution where he collaborated with local children to reimagine the lives of those of a similar age who had been placed there nearly 200 years ago. They gifted messages on paper embedded with local plant seeds that eventually degraded into the soil to regenerate. This ‘memory exchange’ was a symbolic gesture of intergenerational healing at a site of trauma to Aboriginal people. Healing land, remembering Country similarly invites the public to engage with the complex histories of place and sites of trauma. Register here: https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au//healing-land-rememberi * Images: Tony Albert, Healing Land, Remembering Country, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts and Create NSW, and generous assistance from the Medich Foundation. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney. Photograph: Zan Wimberley (@zanwimberley) #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #NAIDOC2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe

12.01.2022 ANNOUNCING SOVEREIGN IDEAS (PREMIERE) Celebrate National NAIDOC Week with an inspirational line-up of iconoclastic young Indigenous Australian cultural thinkers and leaders. As part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, Sovereign Ideas invites all Australians to embrace the true history of this country and look to the future.... Live now through the link below, the panel offers an encouraging narrative of possibilities that counter stereotypes, stigmas, and tropes from one of Australia’s most iconic locations. Speakers include Emily Johnson, Corey Tutt, Lille Madden, and Ryhan Clapham (aka DOBBY) and hosted by Rachael Hocking. Follow the link below to premiere Sovereign Ideas! #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #sydneyoperahouse #sovereignideas #NAIDOC2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe https://youtu.be/gbAV7BxDiDA

12.01.2022 "Queen of the polystyrene dream... Queen of the plasticine marine". Lucas and Kim's Plastic Free Biennale project present MC Nannarchy's Plastic Wrap, a "Nannafesto" Watch the video and find out more on the Plastic Free Biennale website linked below.

10.01.2022 This weekend is also your LAST CHANCE to experience the 22nd Biennale of Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art! Plan your trip: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art//museum-contemporary-art/ Were sharing one of your most shared MCA works today. Bow Echo by Aziz Hazara.... In Bow Echo, five boys climb and try to stay perched atop a large rock, battered by high winds. Their aim is to play a plastic childrens bugle to announce the urgency of their communitys plight against repression, which includes the murder of children and others. The eerie sounds express a connection with the landscape, in which many traumatic events have taken place. As other cities around the world sound their recognition of death with bugles of shiny metal, like at Anzac Day in Australia, these childrens plastic bugles are hardly heard above the howling winds. Image: Aziz Hazara, Bow Echo, 2019. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney with generous support from Open Society Foundations, generous assistance from ACMI, and assistance from NIRIN 500 patrons. Produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Ken Leanfore, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

09.01.2022 Congratulations to all the finalists in this years Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. Angus McDonalds portrait of Kurdish-Iranian writer, poet, filmmaker and journalist Behrouz Boochani is included in the selection of Archibald finalists for 2020. Next Tuesday, we are hosting an exclusive online conversation between Behrouz Boochani and NIRIN artist Ibrahim Mahama. Capacity is limited. Find out more and book online: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/in-conversation-behrouz-boo Image: Angus McDonald, 'Behrouz Boochani'

09.01.2022 Have you booked your tickets yet? José Roca, Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022) will be speaking about Art and the Anthropocene at the inaugural ArtsHub Visions 2020 Conference next Wednesday 9 December. With a long history of protest, the arts are now calling for action on the climate crisis and to create sustainable futures. As well as looking at reducing the impact of arts practices, the arts have a unique role in bearing witness and advocating for change. S...peaking with esteemed Australian author-editor Sophie Cunningham AM, José Roca will discuss how the arts sector can respond to the crisis and mobilise audiences into action. Follow the link to register! https://events.artshub.com.au/visions2020 * #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney #ArtsHub Image: Jose Roca, Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney. Courtesy Biennale of Sydney. Photograph: Alejandra Quintero Sinisterra.

08.01.2022 This Saturday, take a deep dive as we explore water at the Australian Museum for #EarthHour.

08.01.2022 Happy International Women's Day #IWD Today we're taking inspiration from Justene Williams’ Victory Over the Sun a bold revisionist work featured in Dr Stephanie Rosenthal’s 2016 edition of the Biennale. Williams collaborated with Sydney Chamber Opera to reinvent the 1913 Futurist (anti-)opera where, in the new version, Strongmen become Strongwomen battling over humanity’s fate. ... Image: Justene Williams with Sydney Chamber Opera, Reinvention of the 1913 Futurist (anti-)opera 'Victory Over the Sun', 2016, mixed-media installation with performances on Cockatoo Island, 18-20 March 2016 Image courtesy Biennale of Sydney. Photograph: Document Photography

08.01.2022 Today at 8pm (Sydney time), Art Basel will present 'Voices from Sydney', a conversation with Brook Andrew, Karla Dickens and Paschal Daantos Berry. The discussion will explore how the 22nd Biennale of Sydney and other artist-led initiatives in Australia have been championing once marginalised communities, inspiring change both locally and internationally. Register now: https://bit.ly/31n4Zl6

08.01.2022 Explore art in the unique corners of Cockatoo Island. This is a significant video installation by Katarina Matiasek. Over the last two decades, there have been an increasing number of repatriations of different kinds of objects and archives, as well ancestral human remains, to their original communities after being long held in museum and university collections. The removal of these objects and the anthropological framing of Indigenous cultures through collection and display... practices, has been a central part of the colonial project. While the return of high-profile items may attract some media attention, the on-going story of what happens following repatriations and the effects on community have been little investigated. Katarina Matiaseks 'Far From Settled' aims to trace the cultural, political and personal reverberations that resurface with acts of repatriation. Through experimental interview-based filmmaking and a sculptural infrastructure, Matiasek presents an un-doing of the anthropological archive, imbuing it with places, people, and stories originally ignored or erased through processes of collection, storage and display. Find out more and plan your trip to Cockatoo Island: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/ - Image: Katarina Matiasek, Far from Settled, 2020 mixed-media installation Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Phileas Foundation, and generous assistance from the Federal Chancellery of Austria Courtesy the artist Interview participants: Christine Doherty, Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker, William Bill Risk OAM, Roberta Skinner; Camera assistant: Tanja Bruckner; Archival images: Courtesy Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna. Kindly supported by: Phileas A Fund for Contemporary Art, Vienna and the Austrian Federal Chancellery. Photograph: Zan Wimberley See more

08.01.2022 Stream this year's Nick Waterlow Memorial Lecture online. This year's lecture celebrates the work of young activists at the forefront of mobilising the public into political action for climate change. Hosted by Sara Mansour, co-founder and artistic director of Bankstown Poetry Slam, it features three activists; Ambrose Hayes (School Strike 4 Climate Australia), Amelia Telford (Seed Mob) and Grace Vegesana (Australian Youth Climate Coalition) https://youtu.be/sPMnpbB9V14

08.01.2022 Watch #NIRIN2020 artist Lily Hibberd’s video work 'Female Computers: Invisible Stars' on YouTube! The Female Computers worked in over 20 observatories around the world, from 1887 until the mid-1970s, to create a photographic map and catalogue of 6.5 million stars. The international star map project reveals how European white men attempted to define how we see the sky. And how new technologies were used by colonists to expand their empires. Many dominant stories about our Univ...erse are also based on binary, patriarchal myths. But there are other systems and alternate gender tales to tell. Created as part of Lily Hibberd's artist and research residency 'Boundless - out of time' produced with the Powerhouse Museum for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Follow the link to watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwnSTpOYyug * #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney #LilyHibberd #MAAS #PowerhouseMuseum Image: Lily Hibberd ‘Female Computers: Invisible Stars’ (Still from video), 2020. Created as part of Lily Hibberd's artist and research residency 'Boundless - out of time' produced with the Powerhouse Museum for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Courtesy the artist.

08.01.2022 This weekend is your LAST CHANCE to experience the 22nd Biennale of Sydney on Cockatoo Island. Open today and tomorrow, 10am to 4pm. Remember! The easiest way to get here is via the direct ferry from Barangaroo. Additional shuttle ferries will run between Barangaroo and Cockatoo Island from 9.45 am to 6 pm this weekend.... Please be mindful that ferries are typically busiest on weekends, especially Sundays. Be aware that ferries have capacity restrictions to ensure safe physical distancing between passengers. If a ferry has reached capacity, you will need to wait for the next service with available seating. Visit our website and plan your trip: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/

07.01.2022 4 DAYS TO GO! The 22nd Biennale of Sydney closes on Cockatoo Island this Sunday at 4pm. Plan your trip https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/ Were counting down the final week with a selection of your favourite works on the Island. Leuli Eshraghis installation re(cul)naissance creates a ceremonial space that honours both precolonial kinship systems, life-cycles, pleasures, connections, multiple genders and sexualities, and creates a speculative f...uture-space free of colonial shame. Through its forms, materialities and concepts, the work activates different Samoan and other Indigenous concepts, including malamalama, the process of understanding or enlightenment through close reading or attentiveness to symbiotic po, the potential-filled night/origin of the universe, and lagi, multiple heavens from which all deities relate to humans and other kin animals. #NIRIN2020 Images: Leuli Eshraghi, re(cul)naissance, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts, Artspace and generous assistance from babylikestopony, Spacecraft, Neolite, Angela Tiatia, Jeremy Skellern, Julia Greenstreet, Edward Horne, Nina Ambjerg-Pedersen and Hannah Rauwendaal. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Jessica Maurer

07.01.2022 Biennale of Sydney Inaugural Benefit Auction | For the first time ever, art lovers from around the world have the opportunity to bid online for selected artworks featured in the Biennale of Sydney exhibition. From today, our global community of passionate supporters have the opportunity to come together to directly assist the artists featured in the 22nd edition, titled NIRIN, and the Biennale of Sydney through an online auction. View artworks and start bidding:... https://app.galabid.com/biennaleofsydney/items See more

07.01.2022 NIRIN NAARM is now live! Launching today, NIRIN NAARM presents selected moving image works from NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, under the artistic direction of Brook Andrew. Hear about the artworks from Brook Andrew in an artistic overview below and follow the link below to view the exhibition. Only available online from 10-15 November.... NIRIN, a Wiradjuri word meaning ‘edge’, was conceived as a world of endless interconnected centres; a space to gather and to share, to rejoice, disrupt, and re-imagine. NIRIN is at the forefront of global movements to centre indigeneity, to reconsider cultural narratives and practices, and to reimagine public spaces, monuments and memory. As we celebrate NAIDOC week, and the 2020 theme Always Was, Always Will Be, ACCA’s collaboration with the Biennale of Sydney brings NIRIN into dialogue with NAARM, a Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung word which refers to the land and waters of the Melbourne area. - View the works online and read more about the project and participating artists here: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/nirin-naarm/ #ArtStartsAtACCA #NIRIN #NIRIN2020 #NIRINNAARM #BiennaleOfSydney #ACCAMelbourne #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe https://fb.watch/1FBnoDdpM3/

07.01.2022 This Earth Hour join us as we deep dive into the diverse area of water in a series of short talks presented with the Australian Museum. Join José Roca Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Australian Museum First Nations Assistant Curator Dr Mariko Smith, cultural geographer Dr Sue Jackson and Wiradjuri multidisciplinary artist Jazz Money, as they unpack different methods of caring for this precious resource and real-world solutions for living in more sustainable... and ethical ways. Saturday 27 March, 2pm at the Australian Museum. Tickets available here: https://australian.museum/event/earth-hour/

07.01.2022 Check out NIRIN NGAAY this weekend in Melbourne! This weekend @t.or.rents and @stuartgeddes are having a small exhibition of NIRIN NGAAY, an artist book combining poetry, essays, correspondence and artist pages, edited by @brook_andrew_artist, Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, @jessycahutchens, @stuartgeddes and @t.or.rents for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN. As part of the exhibition they will be screening a film directed and produced by @amzobrown...ie centred on the making of NIRIN NGAAY. Exhibition details: @negativepress 8/102 Henkel Street, Brunswick Saturday 6 February & Sunday 7 February, from 12-5pm Drinks on Saturday 6 February, from 3-5pm All are welcome. With limited capacity. Image: Trent Walter & Stuart Geddes, NIRIN NGAAY, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Carriageworks. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Courtesy the artists. Photograph: Zan Wimberley. #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney #NIRINNGAAY

07.01.2022 Ibrahim Mahama has been named a Principal Prince Claus Laureate! Prince Claus Awards honour individuals and organisations for their excellent, ground- breaking work in culture and development. The seven 2020 Prince Claus Laureates were announced on 2 December in an online ceremony. Ibrahim Mahama, an artist in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, creates large-scale powerful artworks using provocative materials and sites to examine and expose histories, uphold the role... of labour, challenge authorities and criticise mismanagement of resources. For the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Ibrahim Mahama dressed the entirety of the interior Turbine Hall at Cockatoo Island with jute sacks. A crowded patchwork of rich, brown colour and rough and smooth planes, together their marked surfaces mime the gritty materiality and architecture of the former shipyard and penal colony, to reference and stir the histories of labor and incarceration that lay dormant on Cockatoo Island. Find out more about the Ibrahim’s award as Principal Prince Claus Laureate: https://princeclausfund.org/laureate/ibrahim-mahama * #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN Image: Ibrahim Mahama, No Friend but the Mountains 2012-2020, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from Anonymous, and assistance from White Cube. Courtesy the artist; Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia and White Cube, London / Hong Kong. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.

06.01.2022 Freedom and Justice for all including the so called non-life. For it is within these moments that we shift perceptions and expand upon our values of respect. Lets aim to truly democratise form and the many hands they emerge from. - Ibrahim Mahama. Join Ibrahim Mahama & Behrouz Boochani in conversation tomorrow. Tickets are strictly limited. BOOK NOW: https://bit.ly/3k1QbPm

06.01.2022 Today on Cockatoo Island were activating Tania Brugueras work, UNNAMED This work is a series of participatory performances where participants choose the name of a person murdered or assassinated for their actions protecting the environment. Local tattooist Lu, whose practice focuses on botanical interests, will tattoo you with a traditional tattoo method using bamboo sticks. This invisible tattoo, like the people who have been murdered, disappears off your skin after a sh...ort time. The tattoo serves as a way to embody and remember the lives of these people. By marking the name of an individual killed through resource-related violence onto the body of another, the act of memorialisation becomes an intimate, person to person act, that seeks to personalise the data that records this loss: approximately 753 people killed between 2015 and 2018, for actions interfering in state and company activities causing devastation to local environments. The human cost as part of this on-going ecocide is rarely acknowledged or openly discussed. UNNAMED is a means of marking each life individually and of viscerally registering this loss. Commissioned by Monash University Museum of Art MUMA for presentation at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisban (@milanigallery) Note: the second and third photographs were taken pre-COVID. #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennalOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney #taniabruguera #CockatooIsland #SeeSydney #WhatsOnSydney

06.01.2022 NIRIN artists Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams have been working with The Sisters of Perpetual Plastix as part of their 'Plastic Free Biennale' project. This performative duo is combatting the general publics desire to confess their plastic-waste sins. They will be holding confessionals on Cockatoo Island tomorrow, 11.30am - 1.30pm. Confess and repent your wastefulness. Book a session by messaging the Plastic Free Biennale team on Instagram: https://instagram.com/plasticfree...biennale Contradiction // hypocrisy // worship, the Sisters are working their way through the metaphor . Perhaps they can absolve you of your plastic sins They have produced a bundle of great videos and podcasts, which we have been folded into the Plastic Free Biennale Project. Check out their work: http://www.sisters-of-perpetual-plastix.net//sisters-of-p/

06.01.2022 Hannah Catherine Jones immersive video installation at Carriageworks is an atmospheric blending and traversing of cosmic scenes to actions of freedom, colonial histories to possible futuristic visions and popular culture. The installation invites us to rest in an immersive visual experience where time passes at varying paces as attempts are made to bend the way popularist ideologies are often ignorant to alternative experiences of the world. The Biennale is currently on sho...w at Carriageworks until 26 September. Find out more: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/carriageworks/ - Images: Hannah Catherine Jones, Owed to Diaspora(s), 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Carriageworks. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from the British Council Australia. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Zan Wimberley. See more

06.01.2022 Next Tuesday, 25 August, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will host their first online tour via Zoom for adults who are blind or have low vision. The tour will explore the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and audiences will have the opportunity to engage with a range of MCA artist educator-led conversations and activities throughout this online tour. Spaces are limited, lock in your place now for the 25 August at 12pm: https://www.mca.com.au//audio-described-and-tactile-tour-/ Image: Nogirra Marawili, installation view, 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2020, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia the artist, photograph: Ken Leanfore.

06.01.2022 Final week! The 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, will close this weekend at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace and Carriageworks! Visit our website to plan your trip: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/ - Images: LEFT Ibrahim Mahama, A Grain of Wheat, RIGHT Karla Dickens A Dickensian Circus

06.01.2022 Filling the space of the entrance court of the Art Gallery of New South Wales is Kulilaya munu nintiriwa (Listen and learn) an installation of banners bearing words and images from Kunmanara Mumu Mike Williams personal archive, projecting his belief in the power of words to effect change. Kunmanara was planning a political protest piece for the Biennale before his passing in March 2019. The project was carried forward by his widow Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, his lifelong friend... and collaborator Sammy Dodd, and his community. Language was a central aspect of Kunmanaras life and work as an artist, orator and activist. The banners shown were brought back to Country, gathering marks of the land, of being read, of being carried forward into the next generation. download the free @artiviveapp to see the protest banners translated live from Pitjantjatjara to English through augmented reality (AR) technology. This Sunday is the final day you can experience NIRIN at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Plan your trip https://www.biennaleofsydney.art//art-gallery-new-south-w/ Image: Image: Kunmanara Mumu Mike Williams, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, Sammy Dodd and the artists of Mimili Maku Arts, Kulilaya munu nintiriwa (Listen and learn), 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Art Gallery of New South Wales. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from Australia Council for the Arts and Fondation Opale. Courtesy Mimili Maku Arts. Photograph: Zan Wimberley

05.01.2022 How can cultural institutions face our new reality with agility, optimism, and strategic use of technology? Join Biennale of Sydney Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Moore, at Digital Directions Virtual Conference this Thursday. Barbara will share insights on adaptation, elasticity and the power of creativity to rewrite the rule book. Register in the link below.... https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/digital-directions-virtual- #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale

05.01.2022 UAP has released its annual list of the year’s best public art and Nicholas Galanin’s (@nicholasgalanin) artwork ‘Shadow on the Land, an excavation and bush burial’ from the 22nd Biennale of Sydney has been nominated! This year, the selected works were chosen by the esteemed international artists and curators Brook Andrew, Manal AlDowayan, Kendal Henry, and Raqs Media Collective, plus UAP’s principal and senior curator Natasha Smith and curator Ineke Dane. You can tune into a... webinar discussion of these public works led by Natasha Smith and Ineke Dane on Monday, December 7th, at 7 p.m. EST (Tuesday, December 8th, 10 a.m. AEST). Find out more in Artsy’s article: https://www.artsy.net//artsy-editorial-best-public-art-2020 Sign up for the webinar! https://uapcompany.zoom.us//reg/WN_cO-PeJhUSP62QlLvh_G_ug * #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN Image: Nicholas Galanin, Shadow on the Land, an excavation and bush burial, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with assistance from the United States Government. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Alex Robinson.

04.01.2022 Its your last week to experience the 22nd Biennale of Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art @mca_australia! You can visit MCA Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am5 pm. Visit our website to find out more: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art//museum-contemporary-art/... Zanele Muholis works at MCA have been some of your favourites. Thanks for sharing your photos! Image: Left to Right: Zanele Muholi; Vile, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2015; Akeeleh Gwala, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, 2020; Sindile II, Room 206 Fjord Hotel, Berlin, 2017; Faces and Phases Selection, 2006-2019; and Mellisa Mbambo, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from the Sherman Foundation, and in partnership with PHOTO 2020. Public programming relating to this project was made possible with generous support from the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. Courtesy the artist; Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg; and Yancey Richardson, New York. Copyright Zanele Muholi. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.

04.01.2022 Work with us? We're currently seeking an Executive Assistant to join the team! Find out more about the role by downloading the position description: http://bit.ly/biennaleea2020 Applications close Wednesday, 2 September 2020.

04.01.2022 Join our team! The Biennale of Sydney has two positions currently open for applications. We’re looking for a Part Time Administration Coordinator who will be responsible for the smooth operations of the Biennale of Sydney office.... Managing the reception, the successful candidate will act as the first point of contact for many enquiries, so outstanding communication skills and a warm personality are essential. The Information Package for the Administration Coordinator role is below. Applications close 5pm, Monday 15 March. https://bos-prd.s3.amazonaws.com//78f99dcc303fae5376b4c7d9 We’re also seeking a resourceful Philanthropy Manager to develop and deliver a strategic approach to the sustained long-term growth of the Biennale. The Information Package for the Philanthropy Manger is below. Applications close 5pm, Friday 12 March. https://bos-prd.s3.amazonaws.com//4ba94c42b6b3505658a0f3e7 #artsjobs #biennaleofsydney #biennale #arts #jobs

04.01.2022 With less than two weeks until NIRIN closes at the Museum of Contemporary Art, youll want to head to our website to plan your trip! https://www.biennaleofsydney.art//museum-contemporary-art/ If youve already visited, you would remember these works by Huma Bhabha. These towering, fantastical figures come from deep imagination, taking the form of commanding apocalyptic hybrids. The works reference ancient Greek kouroi (sculptures of nude male youths), Gandharan buddhas (...produced between the 1st century BCE and the 7th century CE in present-day Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan), African sculpture and Egyptian pharaohs. Evocative as shrines, Bhabas figures emanate colonialism, war, displacement and memories of place. They may even represent border conflict or the guardians who transcend or witness such activity. The 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, will close at MCA on 6 September. Image: Left to Right: Huma Bhabha, The Past is a Foreign Country, 2019; Waiting for Another Game, 2018; and God of Some Things, 2011. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney with generous support from Anonymous, and assistance from Salon 94, New York and the United States Government. Courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York. Photograph: Zan Wimberley

03.01.2022 Art changes everything. The way we think. The way we feel. The way we see the world. Thank you for supporting the Biennale of Sydney in 2020.... Help keep the Biennale free. For everyone. https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/donate/ War Mask (Calochilus campestris) is a drawing of a Tasmanian endangered orchid from Lucienne Rickard's series ‘Extinction Studies 2019 2021’. ‘Extinction Studies’ began as a year-long project where Lucienne underwent a daily reckoning: drawing, then erasing, a recently extinct species sourced from the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. This process of drawing and erasure, or evolution and extinction, is repeated in full knowledge that the paper will deteriorate, and eraser shavings will accumulate. 'Extinction Studies' merges art and science, a ‘study’ being both a technical art term for a sketch done in preparation, and more generally understood as the practice of devoting time and attention to understanding a topic, in this case the process of species extinction and urgent concerns for the future of biodiversity and life in the natural world. ‘Extinction Studies’ was part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). More information @luciennerickard

03.01.2022 Vote for NIRIN! NIRIN has been nominated for Arts Program of the Year as part of the FBi Radio’s 2020 SMAC Awards. Vote for NIRIN through the link below. Voting is open until Wednesday 16 December at 5pm. ... #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #Sydney https://fbiradio.com/awards/ - Images The 22nd Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN, Opening Event on Cockatoo Island. Tony Albert, Healing Land, Remembering Country, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts and Create NSW, and generous assistance from the Medich Foundation. Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney. Hand woven baskets by: Bula’Bula Arts Evonne Munuyngu; Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Dolly Dhimburra Bidingal, Joyce Milpuna Bidingal, Mary Dhapalany, Mavis Marrkula Djuliping, Linda Gagati, Caroline Gulmindilly, Kathy Guyula, Helen Djaypila Guyula, Meredith Marika; Numbulwar Numburindi Arts Nicola Wilfred; Tjanpi Desert Weavers Munatji Brumby, Maureen Cullinan, Niningka Lewis, Puna Yanima. Photograph: Zan Wimberley. The Mulka Project, Watami Manikay (Song of the Winds), 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Art Gallery of New South Wales. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney. Contributors: Joseph Brady, Rebecca Charlesworth, Ishmael Marika, Mundatju Munugurr, Patrina Munugurr, Arian Pearson, Siena Stubbs, Wukun Wanambi, Gutiarra Yunupiu. Courtesy Buku-Larrgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala. Photograph: Zan Wimberley. Teresa Margolles, Aproximación al Lugar de los Hechos (Proximity to the scene), 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), National Art School. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with assistance from Acción Cultural Española, (AC/E), Embassy of Spain and Galerie Peter Kilchmann. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich. Photograph: Zan Wimberley.

02.01.2022 10 DAYS TO GO... the 22nd Biennale of Sydney is closing soon on Cockatoo Island. Be sure to plan your trip very soon to avoid missing out. Visit our website! https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/ ... Image: Left to Right: Manuel Ocampo; Culture Vulture: from the series La Buena Vida, 2020; and Rat Nibbling on Swastika on Top of Doubloons: from the series La Buena Vida, 2020. Installation view for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), Cockatoo Island. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with assistance from Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Station Gallery, and NIRIN 500 patrons. Courtesy the artist and STATION, Australia. Photograph: Zan Wimberley (@zanwimberley)

01.01.2022 If you visited this year's Biennale of Sydney, we'd love to hear from you. Complete our short 5 minute survey and go into the draw to win a private harbour cruise on HAIVETA! http://bit.ly/nirinsurvey2020

01.01.2022 EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW AND PREMIERE Tonight from 6pm to midnight Sunday 1 November. Women in astronomy were once eclipsed but this short film retraces the presence of female astronomers at Paris Observatory over 350 years since its founding in 1671.... An exclusive preview for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN, ‘In the Footsteps of Venus’ is the culmination of a 7-year collaboration with the celebrated Paris Observatory astronomer Suzanne Débarbat. Follow the link below to premiere ‘In the Footsteps of Venus’. Only available until midnight Sunday 1 November. - This project was created as part of Lily Hibberd's artist and research residency ‘Boundless out of time’ produced with the Powerhouse Museum for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Courtesy the artist. Image: ‘In the Footsteps of Venus‘ by Lily Hibberd, 2020. Courtesy the artist. #NIRIN2020 #NIRIN #BiennaleOfSydney #Biennale #SydneyObersvatory #MAAS #PowerhouseMuseum