Shortwave Digital Commissions

Shortwave Digital Commissions

Shortwave is Sydney Opera House’s platform for interdisciplinary Australian artists, commissioned to create new work which explores and extends their digital practice.

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Shortwave Digital Commissions
  • Shortwave: Feras Shaheen | The Bop

    The Bop* is a dance film created in collaboration with the general public.

    The Bop invites the audience to engage in a task-based dance project allowing them to explore their interpretation and experimentation in a public space without diverting far from their day-to-day routines. The Bop seeks ...

  • Shortwave: Riana Head-Toussaint | Animate Loading: 3

    Animate Loading is a disability-led work that is in direct dialogue with the space it inhabits. A dynamic group of performers drawing on their diverse movement languages and embodied experiences to activate a space, bringing its seen and unseen dimensions into focus.

    First created on a rooftop c...

  • Shortwave: JD Reforma | Butterfly

    JD Reforma’s Butterfly is a filmed performance that manipulates theatre as raw material. Embodied by two actresses, it pivots on the potent dynamic between the central protagonists of the stage musical, Miss Saigon and the classical opera on which it is based, Madama Butterfly. It traces the axis...

  • Shortwave: Brad Darkson | Dream Job

    Reddit: a website community for people to discuss any topic in forums called 'subreddits' or just 'subs'. In 2023 the 10th most visited website in the world.

    Antiwork: Unemployment for all, not just the rich!: a subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get...

  • Shortwave: Nasim Patel | non-paradise

    non-paradise is a meditation on deserts. It compares the myth of the desert as an absent place with white noise, the presence of all frequencies on a spectrum being simultaneously received by an interface. Drawing parallels between white noise and social hostilities toward the desert landscape, t...

  • Shortwave: Claudia Nicholson | The Deep Rivers Say it Slowly

    The Deep Rivers Say It Slowly is a new video work by Claudia Nicholson that borrows its form from the photographic slideshow. Slipping between still and moving images, the work revisits a collection of photographs mostly taken by the artist while visiting Central and South America for the first t...

  • Shortwave: Xanthe Dobbie | Eidolon

    Shortwave is a series of new digital commissions, designed to platform a diverse cross-section of emerging or early career interdisciplinary Australian artists working at the forefront of digital performance.

    Eidolon, 2021
    Xanthe Dobbie
    with original score by Jorde Heys

    Available Free
    Commissio...

  • Shortwave: Kalanjay Dhir | The best i can do is redirect energy

    Shortwave is a series of new digital commissions, designed to platform a diverse cross-section of emerging or early career interdisciplinary Australian artists working at the forefront of digital performance.

    the best i can do is redirect energy, 2021
    Kalanjay Dhir

    Help the artist’s flowery ava...

  • Shortwave: Jazz Money | All a Homeland

    Shortwave is a series of new digital commissions, designed to platform a diverse cross-section of emerging or early career interdisciplinary Australian artists working at the forefront of digital performance.

    all a homeland, 2022
    Jazz Money
    Score by Zeppelin Hamilton

    Available Free
    Commissioned...

  • Shortwave: jobfit & Craig Stubbs-Race | mitifb(sorrynotsorry)

    Shortwave is a series of new digital commissions, designed to platform a diverse cross-section of emerging or early career interdisciplinary Australian artists working at the forefront of digital performance.

    mitifb(sorrynotsorry), 2021
    jobfit & Craig Stubbs-Race

    ‘mitifb(sorrynotsorry)’ is a p...

  • Shortwave: Eugene Choi | A Burning House

    Shortwave is a series of new digital commissions, designed to platform a diverse cross-section of emerging or early career interdisciplinary Australian artists working at the forefront of digital performance.

    A Burning House, 2021
    Eugene Choi

    Follow the pigeons into the nooks and crannies of th...

  • Shortwave: Deepfaith | A Deepfaith Digital Odyssey

    Shortwave is a series of new digital commissions, designed to platform a diverse cross-section of emerging or early career interdisciplinary Australian artists working at the forefront of digital performance.

    A Deepfaith Digital Odyssey - Act 1 - Until We Fly, 2021
    Deepfaith

    Available Free
    Comm...