Stelarc: Antipodean Apparatus

  • Contemporary Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time: 120 minutes, one 20 minute interval Subject to change

Antipodean Apparatus: Stelarc /// Hullick /// The Amplified Elephants 

You were thinking about how you never see robots in Australia, even though China has so many. JOLT has heard your prayers. Having put away the meat hooks and body suspensions, Stelarc now encases himself in machinery and becomes symbiotic with the next stage of human evolution: Cyborg. This is how Stelarc traverses the world and makes history: Australia’s leading performance artist.  The body as mechanised apparatus. 

Hullick has built robotic sound machines that represent some other futurist pathway born from the industrial revolution: violins have never been so redivined. As separate acts, Hullick, and neurodiverse ensemble The Amplified Elephants, build anciently modern sound worlds from these creation-augmenting machines.  There is beauty, wonder and brilliance, waiting for you to reach out. 

Presented by JOLT Arts

Event details

F....ing robots, man!

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Credits

CEO, Director, Tech - James Hullick

Deputy CEO, Production Manager, Merch Table - Charlotte Bolcskey

Carer, Producer (for The Amplified Elephants) - Annalee Koernig

Head Tech, Machine Engineer - Richie Allen

Main Act - Stelarc

Support Act - The Amplified Elephants;

Daniel Munnery

Esther Tuddenham

Steven Hagiliassis

Sound Engineer - Jim Atkins

Main Act - James Hullick

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Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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