The Butterfly Effect - stories can change the world. Open your hearts. Expand our minds. Tell us your remarkable stories. Join us at Geelong After Dark for these five-minute storytelling adventures – about you, told by you, imagined by you. Presented by Skin of Our Teeth Productions and 94.7 The Pulse FM.

An interactive artwork that can be seen from great distances and interacted with intimately.

Artist Joel Zika invites participants to explore fantastic mural projections using digital controllers. Façade uses new techniques to create a projected animation that is revealed as participants wave digital flashlights towards this public canvas.

Connecting Song is an initiative to support unsigned acts by teaming them with mentors to write a song inspired by a place on the 80km Mountain to Mouth arts walk. Their songs have been recorded and the video clips created which will debut at Geelong After Dark. The mentors are Geelong’s best in the business: Adalita (of Magic Dirt fame), hip hop artist Trem One and highly respected musician Tim Neal.

*Adult Content: Entry 18 years+

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

‘Seed’ - A light installation sculpture produced by Artist/NSC teacher Suyin Honeywell with NSC students and Somebody’s Daughter Theatre.

Follow the beautiful soundscape of clap sticks and piano into Johnston Park and walk around our glowing ‘Seeds’. This installation hold the sounds, dreams, words and memories of our young people. Join us and put your words in one of the pods and place a tea light candle around your chosen sculpture and make a wish.

"Looking into Wonderland” by Jacinta Leitch, explores the relationship that is conjured from the story telling of parents to their children, a walk amongst an imaginary world seeking adventure much like “Alice”. A cluster of 22 giant illuminated mushrooms float up from the ground accompanied by a soundtrack of a magical night forest, awakening the sense of discovery apparent whilst walking within my instillation. (No flashing or flickering lights will be used, making my site a safe zone for those who suffer from epilepsy or seizures).

From a considered, synaesthetic audio-visual lock, to an infectious dance of audio and colour, libr_array is an energetic celebration of the sound of light. This project extends from an initial series of experiments (((20hz))) undertook for the City of Melbourne. These trials explored the idea of a music for the deaf – and the musical voice composers would bring to a work using hue and intensity, instead of frequency and volume.

Mobile Projector Bike – site responsive live light painting with musical accompaniment... and you can join in! Come and paint the walls of your city! Look out and listen out for the sight and sounds of Projector Bike in and around zones 1 & 2!

Merinda Kelly, in collaboration with Soraya Mobayad, Yasmin Mobayad, and a range of local artists and lowercase poetry will present an exciting, interactive laneway installation which responds imaginatively to the City and its current state of de-industrialisation. Experience for yourself the colourful and illuminating voices of workers and poets. Delight in an abundance of material objects once desired and loved. Join us to explore and re-imagine your urban future in real time.

PARTICIPATE: Bring along a small, non-breakable manufactured object that you no longer want, need or love to add to our totems to material culture. By placing your object inside the totem, you may be absolved of your material guilt!

One group’s trash is another group’s art installation…

After long years of service, these musical instruments were going to the dump…until they were ‘rescued’ and given new purpose in a Year 9 Studio Art classroom. The students have taken them apart and put them back together as a collaborative sculptural installation.

David McCooey and Maria Vella explore the Sound of Light through poetry, sound, and image. Their audio-visual installation, ‘Available Light’, brings to life recent poetry by David on the theme of ‘light and dark’ through Maria’s startlingly original video art and David’s immersive music and sound design.

Tape art is an artwork created with adhesive tape such as duct tape or packing tape. It developed from urban art in the 1960s, as an alternative to the widely spread use of spray cans in the urban art scene. For Geelong After Dark, young people working with the Youth Development Unit at The City of Greater Geelong and Blender Studios will use ‘reflective tape’ to complete a surprise mural in Police Lane (side of GPAC) come and watch the mural progress and guess what it might be.

David King’s video projection takes us on a spellbinding journey through time and space, from the darkest depths of the ocean to the furtherest reaches of interstellar space, the sound of this dazzling cornucopia of light captured by hypnotic music and sound effects from Joseph Stanaway.

Viewers will be met by books illuminated and arranged to form pathways on the sidewalk. Positioned among the books will be desks where people can participate by writing their vision of the future. The foyer of city hall will be transformed into a blackened space where a projected river of words gleaned from Geelong constituents will use text to illuminate the void and create an enchanting riverscape of possibility.

Award winning, multimedia artist, Tania Ferrier, will create a sound and light installation, projecting images of Geelong on to a purpose built, geometric screen. A seven minute video loop will show the city from a new, cubist perspective while emanating ambient sounds of street life.

What really is happening in Geelong’s rich soils? As the sun goes down, and we rest our feet… up pops giant treasures of precious mushrooms, golden colourful toadstools with sounds that merge gracefully creating a night of beauty.

10min shows with 45min intervals

This interactive performance demonstrates the concept of light as elements of clothing, movement and sound. Rather than the artist requiring the spotlight, this art performance piece explores the artist’s use of light to entertain and excite an audience.

The dead are among us. Join Back to Back Theatre in an immersive installation of psychic forces and materialisation.

An installation by artists Sean Loughrey and Anne Scott Wilson, aimed to entice the senses in a theatrically staged, thunderous light show. The project features performances by the Geelong Harmony Choir “singing the storm”. The ames Street Bakery becomes a stage for a multi-media artwork and live performance in an event for all.

2 x 15min acts at 7.30pm and 8.30pm

The movement of sound.
The sound of movement.
The movement of light.
The light of movement and sound.
Live sound-scape construction, contemporary dance and light manipulation meet in Andy and Luigi’s multifaceted work, which seeks to bring to light the flux between the contemporary and the everyday, whilst exploring the interconnectivity of sound and movement.

Light Travels is a nomadic suitcase installation in the laneways and doorways of Geelong, an illuminated and audible display of distractions and ephemera by artists from the Retail Cargo Cult.

An alternative ceremony for the age of consumerism, Light Travels conjures the spirit of Adorno and Benjamin’s suitcase.

Light Conversations (Gallery Ground Level)

Is an experimental and immersive installation that focuses on incidental interactions between the audience and the light and soundscapes that unfold. Light conversation draws on the very notion of “The Sound of Light” in that it removes the significance of the spoken word all together, replacing it instead with a perception of mood and sensation.

A Collaboration between Courthouse Youth Arts and Somebody’s Daughter (Theatre Level 1)

From the steps of CHYA you will be spirited into the theatre, to a time before colonization, before bricks and the ‘law’ - before the Before. Join us as we march the streets leading to Courthouse Youth Arts. Blend your voice with those voices that echo from the streets of old.

Our “Live Entertainment” installation TALKING LAMPPOST act is the latest of our homegrown productions. Picture two beautiful European influenced Lamp posts on the side of the road or on a park pathway, as you stroll past you think “Gee that’s a handsome light post” then out of nowhere it speaks to you. “Live Entertainment”! At first you think that you are hearing things, but then you realise that you are wearing a red shirt and it is saying “hey you in the red shirt.” Feeling a tiny bit like you are on candid camera, you turn and sheepishly answer “Yeees.”

In cities, trees are reduced, buildings sprout, and birds nest elsewhere, while high-rise living stretches skywards, attracting empty-nesters. Absence and longing are explored as the viewer encounters nest forms. Some glow with eggs referencing new life, others are blue with emptiness - the viewer hears what is missing.

Follow reflective lights under Moorabool Street to an ‘upcycled’ space where light meets sound and the sound of light is heard flowing deep down underground. Shining treasures to be played at random.

Join us at the craft stations on Level One of the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre to create your own glow-in-the-dark spin drum as part of the sound and light experience at this year’s Geelong After Dark.

Did you know GPAC also has an incredible art display? Come and view the current sculpture on show Eagle Eye, a collaboration by Cinnamon and Rowan Stephens, created from steel and found objects.

Haze Cube is a marriage of sound and light and a unification of the senses. Oscillating tones will materialise in shimmering patterns inside a luminescent cube whilst sound stimulates light in a continuous exchange. The visual will transform in perfect synchronicity with the music as dancing visuals appear in front of your eyes.

Primordial Rhythm, a new work from Michael Morgan, Alex Hornford and Marita Batna (as curator) is a sculpture that delivers sound through the palette of frequencies for tactile, visual and aural perception and interaction in real time. Since all material forms have sound properties – vibrational frequencies that link with colour of different spectrum and intensities – Primordial Rhythm invites you to explore and synchronise with the range of harmonics of nature. When people and things are matched with their natural frequency it creates harmony.

Year 12 VCAL from Saint Ignatius College will be displaying an edgy and emotive exhibition showcasing stories and photographs of those who are from our local community. This exhibition will touch on Homelessness, LGBTQ+ and Racism. Our hope is to raise awareness to the community and to inform others to create a deeper understanding of these complex issues.