Metro Arts will be home to two exciting events as part of this year’s Brisbane Festival. The visual arts experience Kitchen Studio and the immersive theatre show Adrift will be presented by Brisbane Festival and Metro Arts. Learn more about these unique presentations below, we look forward to seeing you at Metro Arts!
For over 40 years Metro Arts has been the incubator and launchpad for some of Australia’s finest new artists.
Kitchen Studio
Elizabeth Willing has been making art between the kitchen and studio for 15 years. She makes captivating mixed-media installations and exhibitions which excite and seduce the senses as well as performance meals in which the table is stage for food-centric explorations. Kitchen Studio is a place where sculpture, food and ideas are interchangeable and digestible. The rules of hospitality will be broken, and nourishment redefined.
Kitchen Studio is a visual arts exhibition, that will also be brought to life in a series of hosted activations. As a part of these activations a small group of guests will be invited into the dining room to participate in a provocative sensory journey, a playful approach to tasting and digesting.
A free artist’s talk with Elizabeth Willing is also available.
Adrift
Part mystery, part game, Adrift is a participatory theatre work that brings audience members together to uncover a story exploring feelings of isolation and our fraught relationship with nature in the face of a potential mass extinction event.
Following instructions through headsets, participants create detailed worlds as tiny architecture reveals itself, inviting participants to interact with and discover the world around them. Is our relationship with nature just as fraught as our relationships with each other - and can we find hope across an ocean of unknown?
The No Bang Theory
It’s the non-romantic comedy of the year. Heartbreak and hilarity. Too much sex talk from a self-confessed 26-year-old virgin. The Tinder date without the messy bits. The No Bang Theory is ready to charm the pants off Brisbane with stories, show tunes and a series of sparkly jackets. Fresh from captivating audiences in Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin, the Gold Coast and Bundaberg, it’s Brisbane Festival's turn to witness this heartbreaking and hilarious, but always honest look at life on the autism spectrum.
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