Arts Line-Up Revealed For Sugar Mountain

16 November 2012 | 10:01 am | Cassandra Fumi

Kris Moyes, Kirin J Callinan, Hamishi and more!

The arts component of Melbourne's Sugar Mountain festival is curated by artist and festival director Pete Keen; his aim with next year's event is to explore the union and juxtaposition of light and movement.

Director and producer Kris Moyes is known for his music videos for The Presents, Softlightes, Wolfmother and Sia. At Sugar Mountain he will reunite with musician Kirin J Callinan – the pair's Way II War clip was one of the more striking music videos made this year - for a live collaboration.

Dancer, choreographer and director Anthony Hamilton is one of the biggest names in Australian contemporary dance. The most recent piece he choreographed and directed at Chunky Move was Keep Everything, which made a big impression on  our reviewer Paul Ransom: 

“Director/choreographer Antony Hamilton has created a stark, pixelated world in which the dance moves in jump cuts and the rhythm and melody is brilliantly driven by human voice… Keep Everything is a gloriously bizarre piece in which digital primates and human robots move through scratched up space before returning exhausted to Earth”. 

Hamilton has just finished his 2012 Melbourne Festival show Blood And Bone.

At Sugar Mountain 2013, Hamilton will collaborate with Melbourne-based synth outfit Forces to create a unique piece for the festival.

Read our interview with Hamilton pre-Keep Everything.

Melbourne artist Hamishi will collaborate with musician and sound artist Henry Fin Madin (The Harpoons).

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Audiovisual artist Kit Webster will return to the sweet mountain for the third time. He will provide the visual splendour and an on-stage environment for Action Bronson and Dirty Projectors. Markus Hofko will provide the interactive live projections for acts ESG and Woods.

As one-half of clothing label and publisher Pam and the art/music group The Changes, Misha Hollenbach will take over the Mezzanine Stage at Sugar Mountain 2013. Melbourne based-artist Keith Deverell is back this festival to further develop his work on Grace Note, which began at SM 2012. The film project sees Deverell turn his lens to Australia's most idiosyncratic musicians.

Visual artist Thomas Russell will return to Sugar Mountain to exhibit You Are Environment, an interactive video feedback installation. The work explores Zen philosophy and ideas on human consciousness and its relationship to nature. Read our interview with Russell before he revealed this highly interactive work at the Gertrude St Projection festival:

Phantôscopia is an immersive show, blending new technology and occult philosophy into a unique and transcendent performance, starring Midnight Juggernauts frontman Vincent Vendetta, and you!

The end of the day at Sugar Mountain Festival does not halt the art; post-festival the Sugar Mountain Satellite Event program includes: an exhibition of new and old works by Woods frontman Jeremy Earl at Polyester Records; Beg, Scream And Shout Film Festival at Shadow Electric at the Abbotsford Convent; and Boiler Room TV, the underground internet party phenomenon, will happen at the Bottom End.

Sugar Mountain Festival will take place on Saturday 19 January 2013 at the Forum Theatre, Melbourne.