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24.01.2022 RISING’s a festival of the night, but with Melbourne under curfew, the night’s riches are out of reach. So for September, we’re remembering the shadows, stories and subversive potential that exists after dark. The night heightens our sightless senses. It watches as we work up sweats of lust and abandon, try on new disguises, or shed the ones shielding our true identities. It tells thousands-of-years-old First Nations stories that help us find our way home. But the night is in... danger from creeping, pervasive light. Read more on why we need to protect what lives in the dark here: https://wfly.co/Wt1n6 IMAGE CREDIT: Mabel Juli, Garnkiny Ngarranggarni Mabel Juli/Copyright Agency, 2020 ; Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006 The Matrix - Sony #A7s Long Exposure. Studio Incendo is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 Party Time by Lennart Tange is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 VW Pics /Getty, The southern Milky Way and galactic centre rising on an April night in Australia. Ready to swoop by Jack (Latecomer) is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0. Art piece is Batmania at Federation Square in 2015 by Kathy Holowko - projects Night walkers by Emiliano Grusovin is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 Fireworks In The Sky by Leonrw is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 Billy Foster Photography, Winter, Bolte Bridge
24.01.2022 I see the blue moon a-rising / Come around tonight / It's bound to give you life
23.01.2022 Mooncake season is on. As RISING’s a festival of night tied to the lunar cycle, we’ve taken this Mid-Autumn Festival moment to celebrate Asian-Australian culture and its rituals. The result a wild flavour combo of smoked and salted egg yolk, with matcha and red bean mousses. The creation’s born from the childhood memories of Coda and Tonka Executive Pastry Chef Kay-Lene Tan and acclaimed visual artist Jason Phu. The CODA x RISING Mooncake Tart is available to order from CO...DA and TONKA until Thursday 8 October https://o.hungryhungry.com/tonka/menu Music credit: Rainbow Chan ‘Oblivion’ Rainbow Chan
23.01.2022 This week would have seen RISING’s inaugural rising. The first outing of Melbourne’s festival of the night, in Australia’s 24-hour city. Now, under curfew, we’re left missing the over-stimulation of strangers’ bodies at the stage front; and the sensorial mingling of sight, sound smell and taste at grand festival dining halls. But there’s hope that bellowing, laughing, dancing crowds will return. In Dan Hancox’s The Guardian podcast, The Power of Crowds, he suggests that historically crowds are sometimes dangerous, but resilient and hard to disperse, too. He says that a history of congregation stretching back to 13,000-year-old, conga line cave paintings won’t be easily quelled. Have a listen:
23.01.2022 RISING: SINGLES CLUB is back with another specially commissioned lunar tune to bring in November’s second full moon. Taking the reins this month is Melbourne dream folk duo Luluc. They’ve put together a balmy, ethereal reimagining of the 1934 classic ‘Blue Moon’. It’s a sonorous jam for star-kissed lovers. Listen to it now.
22.01.2022 In case you missed it, Patricia Piccinini’s A Miracle Constantly Repeated has reopened in Flinders Street Station. We’ve just released new tickets for the weekend and coming week. Bookings are also open for July and August. If you have a ticket, keep an eye out for our pre-show email with all the info you need.
21.01.2022 You can still catch Michael Candy’s Persistence of Vision in Chinatown. Debuting at RISING, the work sees CCTV cameras, installed with custom spotlights, track your movements through Brien Lane. @visitmelbourne @creativevictoria @whatsonmelb [Video description: Michael Candy installation Persistence of Vision, in Brien Lane, Melbourne. The video shows a woman walking down the Chinatown laneway with her path lit by moving spotlights.]
21.01.2022 In this after-dark September playlist from RISING’s music muscle, you’ll find neon reveries from CHROMATICS, horror synths from Director John Carpenter, dark club anthems from Grace Jones, horizontal dub from Midnight Tenderness and Milky Way-ve lengths. Hit play after the sun goes down.
20.01.2022 It’s the last week of winter and we’re ready to boogie (even if it’s in our kitchen). Mark Leckey’s ‘Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore’ is a timeline of hedonistic UK dancefloors. Its impact has spread beyond the art gallery and the internet to influence dance music, including Jamie XX’s ‘All Under One Roof Raving’. Watch it now.
19.01.2022 National Gallery of Victoria's The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia reopens on Mon 23 November with DESTINY, the largest ever retrospective of acclaimed Kuku and Erub/Mer-descended artist Destiny Deacon. For #NAIDOC2020 we’ve partnered with the gallery to showcase her seminal 1987 work ‘Home Video’. It’s a darkly comic takedown of racist First Peoples stereotypes. You can book free timed tickets to the exhibition from Mon 16 November. Watch the full video on our site now.
19.01.2022 Close out your week at full volume with this hour of empowering bangers. It’s a mix that reinforces the party as its own form of protest, courtesy of our music programmers: Wiradjuri woman Hayley Percy; and Gunai/Kurnai and Yorta Yorta man Paul Gorrie. There’s Malyangapa, Barkindji rapper Barkaa’s lightening wit; Mo’Ju’s monolithic, righteous, ‘Native Tongue’; downbeat meditations from new-era Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rappers Water Streets; as well as political voices from around the globe. Turn it up. #NAIDOC2020
14.01.2022 RISING Artistic Associate and Yorta Yorta woman Kimberley Moulton explains how art always was, and always will be, essential to First Nations people as an expression of identity. Read Kimberley’s essay over on our website. #NAIDOC2020... Credit: Richard Bell, ‘Australian Art, It’s An Aboriginal Thing’, 2006. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. Tarrwarra Museum of Art Collection. https://rising.melbourne//read-essential-art-and-the-new-/
13.01.2022 We’re almost through the hellscape of 2020. So to help you charge into 2021 we’ve got this high bpm, high catharsis mix from Naarm-based DJ, C.FRIM. Give in to the bass and let the heavy dancefloor beats carry you over this year’s finish line. https://soundcloud.com/c-frim/rising-cfrim-its-ovah-mix [Image description: A colour photograph of Naarm-based DJ C.Frim standing in front of a blue sky and wearing a brown hoody.].
13.01.2022 Congratulations to ‘RECKONING: Te Waiata Paihere Wairua The Sounds of Woven Souls’, the inaugural recipient of the Space Cadet mentorship award at Melbourne Fringe 2020, supported by RISING. The First Nations production connects Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Indigenous ancestral stories and language, with dance and pop music. Our team thought, overall, it was an impressive production, with a great mix of powerful personal storytelling, music and performance and a talented cast. Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/y8sVH7I3eGg
10.01.2022 National NAIDOC Week’s all about celebrating the history, culture and achievements of First Nations people. It’s a core principal of our festival too, so we’re revisiting a powerful Reko Rennie work, in which he reclaims colonial symbols via burnouts in a Rolls Royce. Watch it on our website until 15 November.
09.01.2022 Maybe sleep won’t come, or you come alive at night. Call The Nightline and leave a voicemail.
08.01.2022 Every Friday on Triple R, from 47pm, our Music Director Woody MacDonald brings you The Cave. Triple R’s Radiothon is on now the station needs your donations to stay independent and afloat. Subscribe and you could win major prizes including a VIP, full moon itinerary for RISING’s opening night on 26 May, 2021. rrr.org.au/radiothon
06.01.2022 Welcome to our new series unearthing the rituals, tastes and culture of Melbourne’s treasured dining scene after dark RISING: COOKED. First up, we check in with Richmond institution Jinda Restaurant, who we asked to film the rituals bonding the family-run business in times of hardship; and the authentic, comforting, generation-spanning recipes the Thai diner has built its following on. Watch it here.
05.01.2022 At the end of a rollercoaster year, we asked PBS 106.7FM Melbourne Melbourne host Milo Eastwood for a mix that would help us roll out of 2020’s peaks and troughs on a high. His response was two hours of genre-hopping aural optimism. There’s Latin funk, big-hearted disco and even a kookaburra. Start 2021 with a shimmy in your step. https://soundcloud.com//rising-milo-eastwood-i-believe-in- [Image description: A colour photograph and a photograph with blue shadows of PBS FM host Milo Eastwood.]
04.01.2022 The moon is turning and even from hard lockdown here in Victoria, we remember the crowd’s roar. A fresh playlist from our music team of incandescent tunes, chants and clamour to transport you back to the thrum of the crowd. https://spoti.fi/39QCbV0 Images: Rennie Ellis, Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive
04.01.2022 For our first episode we check in with Richmond institution Jinda Restaurant, who we asked to film the rituals bonding the family-run business in times of hardship; and the authentic, comforting, generation-spanning recipes the Thai diner has built its following on.
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03.01.2022 A quick note to let you know the RISING office is taking a break from Mon 28 JuneSun 4 July. The phone line will be closed, so please direct any questions to [email protected] for Patricia Piccinini or [email protected] for shop orders. We’ve shipped out all shop orders made up to and including Fri 25 June. Thanks, and see you next week. [Image description: A sculpture by Patricia Piccinini. We see a close-up of a small, fluffy creature with long, cream fur, and a bird-like beak sits perched on a tree branch that has human, wrinkled skin. The creature’s eyes are closed as if it is resting or asleep.]
03.01.2022 New moons bring new opportunities. Apply within.
03.01.2022 Full moon choons. https://spoti.fi/2YX3SYu Image: Sue for Catalogue Magazine by Agnieszka Chabros
