UTZON ROOM: SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
Presented by JOLT Arts
STELARC
JAMES HULLICK
THE AMPLIFIED ELEPHANTS
Antipodean Apparatus: Stelarc /// Hullick /// The Amplified Elephants
9 July, Thursday: 8:00pm
TICKETS
STELARC
Striding forth from the history books, internationally pioneering Cyprus-born Australian artist Stelarc will be sharing some of his latest sound triggering wearable machines: an exoskeleton designed in collaboration with Ben Merrylees & James Hullick.
“Legendary Australian performance artist Stelarc is known for going to extremes, from aggressive voluntary surgeries and robotic third arms to flesh-hook suspensions and prosthetics. For more than four decades, he’s used his body as a canvas for art on the very edge of human experience.” Wired.
Presented as part performance art and part avant-garde sound show.
JAMES HULLICK /// THE AMPLIFIED ELEPHANTS
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.
SHOW RUNNING TIMES
Doors Open: 7.30pm
Stelarc: 8.00-8.40pm
Intermission
The Amplified Elephants: 9:00-9-30pm
Hullick: 9:30-10:00pm
ARTISTS
Steven Hagiliassis
STEVEN HAGILIASSIS Sound Artist / Media Artist Steven Hagiliassis has been involved with JOLT for the last 6 months as part of the Sonic Adventurers Collective, but has been producing grand musical explorations for many years under his performance names,...
STELARC
STELARC Performance Artist Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 26 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has...
James Hullick
JAMES HULLICK JOLT Director & CEO / Composer / Musician HULLICKSTUDIOS.COM James Hullick is an auditory creator like no other in Australia. Recently James’ artistic identity has been shifting from cutting-edge composer to that of an all out iconic...
Esther Tuddenham
ESTHER TUDDENHAM voice / synthesizers / electronic music / photography / poetry Esther is a sound artist, poet, photographer and intermedia creative mind. Esther explores human emotions and their utterance in her work. In 2021 Esther completed her book of...
Daniel Munnery
DANIEL MUNNERY computer-based sound maker Joining The Amplified Elephants in 2011, Daniel quickly developed an oeuvre as an electronic laptop-based sound artist. Often working in duos with JOLT director James Hullick and sound artist Steve Richards (aka Cleaning...