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Underbelly arts festival 2013 at Cockatoo Island

cockatoo island: Underbelly
Underbelly Arts Festival
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
Cockatoo Island: The art workers
Art Works by the Art Workers
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
Cockatoo Island: In Deep Water, Katie Sfetkidis
In Deep Water by Katie Sfetkidis
The Melbourne-based light artist transforms an old air raid shelter into a luminescent sea of phosphorescent creatures
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
Cockatoo Island: I Met You In A City That Isn't On The Map
I Met You In A City That Isn't On The Map by we do not unhappen.
Visitors enter a city that is in its final moments …
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
Cockatoo Island: I Met You In A City That Isn't On The
I Met You In A City That Isn't On The Map
… and must then choose how they will live out their time
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
Cockatoo Island: Leafs
Forms of Thought by Warren Armstrong & Susie Williams
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
cockatoo island: Nothing to see here
Nothing To See Here by Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan
The Melbourne artists explore what it means to remove the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the vista 
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/ Underbelly Arts Festival
cockatoo island: Cockatoo island
Brixels by Mobile Projection Unit
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
Cockatoo Island: Mussels
Mussels by Annika Blau & Lewis Dohert
Hundreds of animatronic mussel shells in habit a handmade landscape in the Industrial Precinct's Machine Room.
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
Cockatoo Island: My Nourooz
My Nourooz by KINK Studios
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
Cockatoo Island: Project HOME
Project HOME, by Abdul Abdullah & Abdul-Rahman Abdullah 
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
Cockatoo Island: Tableau Vivant
Tableau Vivant by Penelope Benton & Alexandra Clapham
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
Cockatoo Island: Empty Space
Assemblage by Ess. E.Kai
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
Cockatoo Island: Zone #4
Zone #4 by Meagan Streader
The Brisbane-based artist has created an audio-visual installation, filled with billowy organic shapes and soft lighting 
Photograph: Lucy Parakhina/Underbelly
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