interactive installations | immersive arts | activations | community engagement | puppetry | experimental performance
Founded in 2006, the indirect Object is an award-winning arts group creating original interactive and immersive experiences for non-traditional spaces.
With a core team of long-term collaborators, our work blends a handmade aesthetic with technology to engage the senses. We are known for our ability to create accessible, responsive, nuanced and multi-layered experiences that generate a strong emotional connection.
Our grounding motivation to explore the relationship between space, light, performing object and audience is a direct link back to our origins in experimental puppetry, and has led to an expansive creative practice reflecting our commitment to exploring new ideas.
Our creative practice is diverse and at times, contradictory. We create works for children, families, the general public and adults. Regardless of the audience or presentation platform, our work is always evolving, accessible, sensory, and free to the public.
We develop, design and build our work by hand ourselves. Experimental performances typically involve multi-room soundscapes, projection, purpose-built portable spaces and high-impact low-tech features. Our community activations are accessible, inclusive, and feature striking visual aesthetics. Our interactive outdoor installations are the culmination of years of experimentation with light, sound, design, and tactile objects (be they a puppet, luminous wire, or fibreglass sculptures). These projects also reflect the shared skills, insights, and creative direction of our ongoing collaboration.
RECENT FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Treasure Hill Artist Village Light Festival (Commission), Taiwan 2020-2021
Upstream Festival of Arts & Culture, Albury Wodonga 2020
Enlighten, ACT 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Extreme Arts Holiday Program, FCAC, VIC 2015 - 2020
Glen Eira Libraries, Summer Program 2020
Glow Winter Arts Festival, VIC 2019
Glow Festival, HOTA Home of the Arts, QLD 2019, 2020 (postponed) Winterfest Parramatta, NSW 2018, 2019
Luminous, Gladstone, QLD 2018, 2019, 2020 (canceled)
Williamstown Winter Arts, VIC 2019
Roola Boola Children's Arts Festival, VIC 2019
CERES Environmental Park, Beautiful Darkness 2019
Music After Dark, VIC 2019
White Night Melbourne, VIC 2017, 2018
White Night Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, VIC 2018
Geelong After Dark, VIC 2019, 2020 (canceled)
Moonlight Festival, VIC 2019
Storyfest, VIC 2019
Kids Day Mackay, QLD 2019
Illuminate the River, VIC 2019
SeaChange Festival, NSW 2018
Mackay Festival of Arts | Illuminate Mackay, QLD 2018, 2020 (postponed)
Floriade Night Fest, ACT 2017, 2018
The Night Markets, VIC 2017, 2018, 2019
Werribee Winter Street Party, VIC 2018
Commonwealth Games Festival 2018, QLD
Festival of Live Art, VIC 2018
Floraide, ACT 2017
Due West Immersive Arts Festival, VIC 2017, 2019
West of What?, FCAC, VIC 2017
Art in Public Places, City of Hobson's Bay, VIC 2017
Werribee Children's Picnic, FCAC, VIC 2015, 2016, 2017
City of Kingston KingstonArts (various events) VIC 2017, 2018, 2020
Art Ed Victoria. VIC 2017, 2018
One Night in Footscray, VIC 2017
Big West Festival, VIC 2015
Ambulance Victoria 2010 - 2017
Festival of Colour, VIC 2017
Think West Festival, VIC 2017
Crack Theatre Festival, NSW 2014, 2016
Oakleigh Music Festival, VIC 2017
Clayton Street Festival, VIC 2017
Fun in Colour, Highpoint Shopping Centre, FCAC, VIC 2016
Coburg Carnivale, City of Moreland, VIC 2016
Good Friday Appeal 2016
Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech Republic 2015
Taipei Artist Village (Residency), Taiwan 2017
