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‘PHANTASMAGORIA’ is a free site-responsive arts festival produced by the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture that reimagines Bogong Village, located in the foothills of Victoria’s stunning Alpine National Park.
Charinthorn Rachurutchata, Mardy and milk delivery night in Bogong
Based around the concept of “phantasmagoria” – a sequence of images like that seen in a dream – this illuminating project comprises performances, exhibitions and artist talks over the weekend of Friday 7 April to Sunday 9 April, followed by a legacy exhibition of video and sound works open each weekend from 15 April until 30 April (inclusive).
Curated by Bogong Centre for Sound Culture co-founders, Madelynne Cornish and Philip Samartzis, ‘PHANTASMAGORIA’ distorts Bogong Village and transforms it into a world of shadows, murmurs and dreams. The festival uses contemporary art practices to create illusion and spectacle, tracing the vanishing individuals and communities that have marked the alpine region.
Jacqui Shelton, Addressing a Landscape of Production
The festival arises from over 70 artist residencies that have taken place in the region since 2010, all funded by Cornish and Samartzis through the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture. Their passion for contemporary and site-responsive arts practices spurred them to found and fund the cultural initiative, which aims to facilitate a broad cultural program comprising, festivals, exhibitions, publications, master classes and artists’ talks focusing on site-specific art practices. These programs establish a connection with place, its inhabitants, geographic space and memory.
Artists include; Atticus Bastow, Matthew Berka, Peter Blamey, Elise Bonato, Sharyn Brand, Katharina Brauer, Ben Byrne, Christophe Charles, Madelynne Cornish, Melissa Deerson, Lesley Duxbury, Kylie Esler, Aidan Kelly, Daniel Lercher, Willy Merz, Harry Nankin, Overtone Ensemble, Charinthorn Rachurutchata, Geoff Robinson, Philip Samartzis, Gabi Schaffner, Jacqui Shelton, Utako Shindo, Erin K Taylor, Michael Vorfeld, Bryden Williams, Sarah Edwards, Kim Lane and Students of Mt Beauty Secondary College.
They have drawn on local knowledge, dreamtime stories, folklore, historical documentation and artefacts to create ephemeral works that respond to the social context, history, ecology and atmospheric conditions of the village.
