Get off the ferry at Cockatoo Island and go and explore the works in the Industrial Precinct and Upper Island
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/ Underbelly Arts Festival
Five emerging Sydney-based artists build an installation that is one part nuts and bolts, the other part a metaphor for artistic practice Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly Arts Festival
The Melbourne-based light artist transforms an old air raid shelter into a luminescent sea of phosphorescent creatures Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
Visitors enter a city that is in its final moments …
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… and must then choose how they will live out their time Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
Using brainwave readers, the artists take a reading of your mood or state of mind and turns it into a 3D print out for you to keep Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
The Melbourne artists explore what it means to remove the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the vista
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/ Underbelly Arts Festival
Mundane brick walls in the Industrial Precinct are transformed into a real life multiplayer game, where you control whether the bricks live or die
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/ Underbelly Arts Festival
Hundreds of animatronic mussel shells in habit a handmade landscape in the Industrial Precinct's Machine Room. Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
A sphere designed by Iranian artist Maryam Litkouhi is suspended from the ceiling; the work explores the future of a nuclear Iran, also hanging in the balance Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
An installation from the Perth-based brothers, one a painter one a sculptor, explores memory, xenophobia, multiculturalism, and growing up as seventh generation Australians and Muslims Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
A feast of excess, with giant sculptures made of lolly raspberries and bananas, and tableau-inspired performances along a 20 metre banquet table Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
In the Turbine Hall is an experimental material and online catalogue based on the waste produced by the 30 projects working in the Underbelly Arts Lab Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly Arts Festival
The Brisbane-based artist has created an audio-visual installation, filled with billowy organic shapes and soft lighting Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly