• Australian Government / Australia Council for the Arts
  • Brisbane Powerhouse Arts

“One of the best art interactions I have ever experienced.” Arts on the AU

Melinda Hetzel & Co present FLY BY NIGHT

Fri 26 Feb 11:40am - 12:00pm

20 minutes Shopfront, Judith Wright Centre All Ages

Let a custom-built mobile app be your guide on this site-specific journey.

Fly By Night is a site-specific, immersive adventure that takes participants on a fascinating journey, led by a mobile phone app. Guided by a series of visual clues on the mobile device, Fly By Night fuses real-time and screen-based elements into a virtual theatre of images.

As they travel through ‘real’ space, participants take in dance, physical theatre, an original sound score, sublime cinematography and interactive digital design via the screen of an iPhone. The custom-built app, with its ground-breaking experimental software, stitches video files side-by-side, creating theatre in-the-round.

Fly By Night’s original technology has been designed for tourability, capturing new footage to expose the inner life of each venue in which it occurs.

Fly By Night was originally developed and premiered with the assistance of Arts Centre Melbourne.

In addition to the concept Pitch session at 11.40am on Friday, a A Fly by Night trial experience will be available from the Brisbane Powerhouse Information Desk (Level 1) at the following times:

  • 9am - 5pm Monday
  • 1pm - 5pm Wednesday
  • 1pm - 5pm Friday

Image: Pia Johnson

Meet the artist

Melinda Hetzel & Co

Melinda Hetzel and Co. is a new collective of multi-disciplinary artists who collaborate with director Melinda Hetzel to create extraordinary site-responsive live art and performance. Melinda Hetzel has directed and devised a wide range of original, image-based performance works nationally, as well as in Singapore and Germany.

Her extensive body of work features visually stunning, site-specific works and dynamic, ensemble-based theatre. The work of Melinda Hetzel & Co. builds on this experience and in particular Hetzel’s decade of work as artistic director of award-winning visual theatre company, Peepshow Inc.

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