Get ready to be mesmerised - because projection art is back at Geelong After Dark this year! Matt Bonner is the leading artist and he'll be showcasing his work on City Hall in Gheringhap St. 

City Hall will be transformed into an organic living musical instrument (in an opening piece called Breathe) and will be then transformed into a dream like surreal landscape with a haunting soundscape (in a piece called Float at the closing of Geelong After Dark.
 

The most revealing moment you will have this After Dark...

Presented by The Grand Caravan, Blood.Sex.Tears. is an interactive, immersive sound installation in two parts. It is both conversational and confessional.

9pm. The Listening:

Experience a ritual, then enter a soundscape where three simple words interconnect and collide.

The Geelong Memorial Brass Band return to Geelong After Dark in their second year at Central Geelong's pop up night of arts. Join them for "Brass in the CBD..."

Members of the Geelong Symphony OrchestraThe Geelong Symphony Orchestra launched earlier this year to great acclaim as it establishes itself as the region’s leading symphony ensemble. For Geelong After Dark, the GSO has selected some of its finest players to perform for you. Enjoy.

Gore Place will be transformed into an outdoor gallery space that you really need to see for yourself... Artist include David Rossiter, Chris Fennell and Najmeh Norouzi.

A bloom of illuminated jellyfish against a night sky, floating through Central Geelong, transporting you to the deep blue and the life aquatic. These creatures of luminous beauty will be gliding along Moorabool Street and the waterfront changing colour as they encounter each other and the world around them.

Performances: 7.00, 8.00 and 9.00pm.

For over 25 years, a locked wooden dresser sat in the family garage of broadcaster, Joel Carnegie - a once prized possession of his grandfather, Col Brain. Col was one of Geelong's most well-regarded musicians of his time - playing in and leading dance, swing, brass and jazz bands. But Col's dresser hadn’t been opened since he died. So what was inside?

Told through the eyes of his grandson, in a collaboration with the Geelong West Brass Band: herein lies the discovery of a time capsule of Australian musical life, in a quest to uncover what Col wanted us to know about his life, by the things he left behind...

This radio cabaret project will be recorded for broadcast on ABC Radio National.

3 performances: 6:30pm, 7:30pm and 9pm (show running time approx 28 minutes).

Image: Sarah Walker

Back to Back Theatre’s THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a residency model for creating short films and performances, to explore the belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy social, political and economic rights and opportunities. THE DEMOCRATIC SET uses a custom-made film set, a neutral room with two opposing doors.

The exterior steps leading to the Geelong Gallery from Johnstone Park will be transformed into a gorgeous rainbow of colour. Visit us to capture your brightest selfie and hashtag #loveisintheair #geelongafterdark to show your support for Geelong's LGBTIQ community.

'Jump Light' is an interactive piece by Ainslie Macaulay. All visitors of Geelong After Dark are warmly invited to engage with the 9 metre long illuminated skipping rope- an old day game in a more contemporary light.

Photographer: Jason Edwards

The information membrane will offer an new information gathering experience to ensure you don't miss a thing... Supported by Geelong Connected Communities look out for them in each Zone.

Brand Me Baby explores the commodification of digital intimacy and how this is redefining intimacy’s value via performative interventions. The duo roam around dressed in skin-toned body suits, enticing viewers to ‘brand’ their bodies with badges of pixelated logos.  

Come on – Brand Me Baby!

KUBU Studio presents a pop up hypnotic video installation created by local artist Courtney Ward, aka Wallflower. The piece explores the entrancing ability of the element Air and how it connects all living things. Wallflower will also be live painting in response to the video on the evening. -- ‘Dame Nature’s breath mirrors the ebb and flow, the high and low, the rise and fall of every chest.’

The magic of a windchime made of upcycled materials, household items, jewellery, tin cans, bottles, cutlery, garden tools, pots and pans will transform Little Malop Street central.

This piece will create the musical sounds of an active, busy and bustling community.

Telematic Café opens up for the night providing sites to experience and produce new worlds. Test media and medium at venue 1 – explore stereoscopic (3D) film and collaboration on radio waves. Immerse in new realities at venue 2 – constructed artificial environments and space for communication with an artificially intelligent human. Various artists include: Japanese artist GOSHIMA Kazuhiro with his beautiful 3D film 'Shadowland'.

An inter-dimensional sculptural rift consisting predominately of air radiates energy as though it were alive. It's kinetic skeleton frames space with light, shadow and colour, questioning our interpretations of reality with a sense of wonder.

Allow yourself to be submerged into a sea of luminous bubbles. A multi sensory experience exploring the fusion between air and water. Jasmine is an emerging artist who’s practice is focused on creating immersive experiences within the public sphere.

CHYA Laneway Jam promises to be a jam-packed night. Complete with a festival-vibe down a cosy laneway setting, audiences can expect live music and mural painting, hot donuts and coffee and can enjoy a contemporary art exhibition in the gallery space. Relax on the astro turf, grab a picnic rug or throw and settle in for a very chilled night of jamming. 

Come and spin some tunes under the instruction of a top professional DJ in Little Malop St or just listen to others as you enjoy all the happenings in Little Malop St. Thanks to Real Music and City of Greater Geelong youth action teams, BYAC (Bellarine) and Fluke (Central Geelong) and Switch Youth Magazine.

This multi-media installation explores the idea of lifelessness; as both a state of mind and a way of escape. Sheer and penetrable walls confine the ‘self’ and act as a fragile barrier from the ‘other’. The light bulges at the seams of the cage-like structure, alluding to the domination of the internal self over the body.

Join in the fun and childlike play of drawing, painting and labelling in participatory performance artwork, Professional/Amateur. Complete with gentle clown-like humour, explore the funny side of the ever expanding context of art and theatre.

Geelong Gallery presents a series of inspiring activities and installations responding to the theme of air. Contemporary artist Chris Langton’s works will be displayed alongside groovy-beats by DJ Merv and air-focused activities for the kids. Geelong Gallery extends an after-hours exclusive invitation to view Land of the Golden Fleece — Arthur Streeton in the Western District at a special Geelong After Dark rate*.

A ghostly installation of rare and endangered Australian plants by Karen Richards. An installation of light reflective embroidery panels showcase endangered plants from around Victoria - with the light reflective thread only seen when hit by direct light...

Fantastical things happen at the National Wool Museum when the sun goes down and the lights dim. Classic silent films and prowls by amber light with Gertie the Dinosaur, The Ghost of Slumber Mountain and creatures of the dead zoo lurking nearby.

“Air” is an experimental installation by Melbourne artist Eben Greaves. It consists of large floating spheres, which navigate around the space with the aid of the audience. This represents the movement of air particles around our own bodies as we move.

Michael Morgan "Symbiotic Illusions" - surreal and beautiful worlds constructed within a group of fish tanks (some water-filled) that will feature different elements, lights, air bubbles, ice sculpture, and dry ice vapour.

Also including Deakin MotionLab artists' virtual reality interactive- movement mapping work (this is for participants aged 15+).

Imagine being completely surrounded by an environment that takes over every surface - only leaving some glimpses of the outside world to flash through. The viewer is completely surrounded by projection, allowing them to explore and question the surface that is in front of them.

Inspired by Geelong After Dark's theme of AIR, Geelong Sculptors inc. proudly present an exhibition, “Birds of a Feather”. It will open for Geelong After Dark (between 6-10 pm) and will continue to run until May 20. Utilizing a pop up gallery space at 69 Ryrie street outside GPAC, the group have responded with sculptures in a variety of mediums.

Naomi Nicholls likes to paint where painting is not meant to go. The brush strokes have escaped the canvas and don’t stay inside the lines. This installation of synthetic polymer paint on layers of adhesive vinyl draws from the lively colours of Geelong and appear to float in air, as if now freed. 

The Celtic Lights exhibition showcases Celtic geometric designs crafted from light.

Intricate knot work is one of the distinctive features of Celtic art, and typically represents themes such as eternity and interconnectedness. Be inspired by illuminated colourful knot work patterns, braided chains, spirals, mythical animals and powerful symbolism.