CuriousWorks is renowned for its innovative approach to creating art across many forms and for particular sites. We’ve filled one of Australia oldest surviving buildings with performance, music and installations, ...
CuriousWorks is renowned for its innovative approach to creating art across many forms and for particular sites.
We’ve filled one of Australia oldest surviving buildings with performance, music and installations, connecting in an innovative narrative many of that city’s untold stories. We’ve sent audiences on a boat down a river, amongst beautiful water projections, listening on headphones to intimate stories of fleeing a war-torn country to build a new life in Australia, set to a luscious, intercultural score.
Contact Shakthi on shakthi@curiousworks.com.au or (02) 9281 2570 to discuss how art and digital media can come together to create an unforgettable event for your community.
Critical and Audience Feedback from previous events:
Review Excerpt – The Migrant Project
Shakthi, the writer-director for this production, has used state of the art technology to bring together a marvellous combination of sound, light and video images. I think he has managed to successfully blend various forms of art and media to give a new meaning to visual imagery… The production was an extremely gratifying experience for me because it was refreshingly different from many other productions that ultimately end up building layers of cliches within the story. The Migrant Project underlined a paradigm that I have believed in all my life – the fact that although the performing and fine arts have no distinct language and yet they remain the most potent forces that can bring about awakening, peace, tolerance and compassion in the world.
Avijit Sarkar (theatre reviewer)
Sample Audience Feedback
I just want to make a comment about you bringing different art forms and cultures together… and how natural it is, I want to add, that people like you, from different backgrounds, find it almost a must to bring together different art forms, because it is as if one art form cannot contain. I see you, as a group, exactly like explorers, going into new territory, whilst you are both the explorers and the cartographers, so as you move into this new territory… you’re actually circumscribing, describing, refining a land that becomes clearer and clearer and clearer as you travel… I am looking at you, getting a sense of us, going out into the ocean, and that is extremely powerful, extremely hopeful, it is an incredible statement that you’re making and that you’re bringing us in that journey… and you’re open, see here you are, you’re absolutely open, everything you see, everything you’ve done, even to this forum, even the way that you stand, in front of us, is all about hope and courage and vision. I really commend you.
Sample Audience Feedback – The Lanka Project
I just spent three weeks at [international arts festival] being bombarded by art from around the world. This was a breath of fresh air.
Schmick and moving. Very moving. Very powerful, without trying too hard. The soundscape was delightful.
Very impressed. I really enjoyed the music; it was excellently produced. Very slick. The animation was also interesting, and even though it repeated often through the “journey” it still felt fresh. Well done!
Gut wrenching. The music just takes you in there.
It took me on an existential journey. I almost cried, I can’t really talk about it now. It was outside of everyday life.
Yogic. First time I relaxed and thought deeply all day. Still taking it in.
If you haven’t been through it, you don’t realise. I never realised what they’d been through.
I heard my own voice, my own story and it took me a while to recognise it. Then I heard my own words, but with new meaning.
Nice work mate. Until they realise we’re all one, it’s not going to work, is it?
