Powerhouse Late: Sydney Design Week
Sydney Design Week launches with a curated celebration of design and architecture through photography and film, featuring special previews of films Strata Incognita, Yesterday New Future (Liddell) and Homo Urbanus.
Program
WELCOME
6pm Opening of Sydney Design Week 2023
SCREENINGS
5–9pm Strata Incognita (2023) is a short film by Grandeza Studio and Locument commissioned for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2023
5–9pm Yesterday New Future (Liddell) (2023)by Merilyn Fairskye is a new photographic and social history recording commissioned by Powerhouse Photography. It captures the transformation of the Liddell Power Station in the Hunter Valley, NSW, from one of the world’s oldest operating coal-fired power stations to a clean energy renewables hub. Yesterday New Future (Liddell) examines the site as a microcosm of geological time, human settlement and industrial transformation
5–9pm Homo Urbanus (2019)is a cinematic odyssey by acclaimed artist-filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, which offers a vibrant tribute to public space. Taking the form of a free-wheeling journey around the world (10 films, 10 cities, 10 hours of films), these observational films put urban humanity under the microscope and encourage a closer look at individual and collective behaviour, interpersonal dynamics, social tensions, and the economic and political forces that play out every day on city streets
VISUALS
5–9pm AI generated image projections by Tom Blachford
MUSIC
5–9pm DJ Deepa
BAR
5–9pm Bar by Grifter
Artists
and are video-artists, filmmakers, producers and publishers who have worked together since 2005. The duo experiments with new narrative and cinematographic forms relating to contemporary architecture and the urban environment. Bêka and Lemoine focus on how the built environment shapes and influences daily life. Their unique and personal approach can be defined, in reference to French writer Georges Perec, as an ‘anthropology of the ordinary’. Bêka and Lemoine's films have been selected and awarded by major film festivals including Cannes Films Festival, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, CPH:DOX, DocAviv, Chicago International Film Festival and Torino Film Festival. Their films have also been presented in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008, 2010, 2014), the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016, the Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2017 and Performa 17 in New York.
