ART BALL returns to the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) this month, celebrating four years of ART BALL and 40 years of AGWA’s main building with an unmissable birthday party.
This year’s theme – Electric Dreams – promises to illuminate the senses with immersive activations, interactive installations and a spectrum of electrifying performances from the best WA music and performance talent.
The line-up includes indie-pop-rockers Can Sisco, multi-award winning synth duo FEELS and rising pop star Priscilla, DJ Aslan and West Australian Opera star Pia Harris – who is set close out the evening with a rendition of Puccini’s classic aria O Mio Babbino Caro at the stroke of midnight.
Performance art duo The Huxleys will be stepping out of the most bizarre pages of VOGUE, roaming the corridors of AGWA with their uniquely glamorous brand of absurdity. They will be joined by Fringe festival favourites YUMMY with their high-camp circus and local legends Gendermess will bring their alternative drag to the gallery space.
Guests will be greeted by an iridescent wall where red latex-clad arms will offer glasses of G. H. Mumm Champagne, leading to an immersive 15,000 litre Bubble Pop Ball Pit and the Electric Lounge glittering with electric vines.
AGWA’s central staircase will make for a stunning centerpiece for the evening, with lighting installations by LUX Events taking over the entire gallery. Perth-born lighting artist Brendan Harwood will also be dazzling attendees with his three-story interactive projection installation incorporating motion sensing technology that will trigger a cascade of neon orbs and create giant neon avatars.
As for refreshments, QT Bar will be serving signature cocktails, G.H. Mumm, Juniper Estate wines and WA craft beer, while edibles will be curated by Comestibles with canapes, grazing tables and the Electric Eatery – overloaded with delicious winter-warming treats.
Prizes will be awarded to the best dressed, and the ART BALL Luxury Raffle offers prizes valued at over $28,000.
ART BALL: Electric Dreams will be at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on Saturday 25th May. Tickets and more information available from artball.com.au
