ABOUT US
installations | activations | immersive arts | community engagement | puppetry | experimental performance





Founded in 2006, the indirect Object is an award-winning Australian arts group creating immersive experiences for non-traditional spaces. With a history of diverse arts practice, we have performed, exhibited, and trained around Australia and the world.
Over 16 years, our practice has evolved and refined. Flowing from theatre-based performance through film, photography, puppetry, live art happenings, to outdoor interactive installations. Regardless of the project, our belief that art is for everyone means our work is always inclusive, accessible and free.
For 10 years we have created within 3 year themes, each theme drives our work in a new direction, while building on the core skills, ideas and techniques we have acquired.
Our first theme For the Love of an Orange (2013-2015) was an in depth exploration of Prokofiev’s Opera The Love of Three Oranges examined through short films, photography, experimental puppetry, object theatre and performance installations. During this time, we abandoned theatrical spaces to expand our research into the relationship between space, light, performing object and audience. The work became sensory, physical, spatial highly-stylised and non-narrative.
During Psychology of Landscape (2016-2018) our focus was live-art immersions. Projects were driven by colour, sound and spatial design. Narrative became visual or audio recordings. Live performers were replaced with multi-room installation journeys created for one person at a time. A handmade aesthetic blended with simple domestic technology that (thanks to puppetry techniques) made spaces responsive. Our focus on clean, geometric design became more detailed, nuanced and complex.
From 2018-2019 we developed a series of large-scale outdoor installations that harnessed interactive technology to create light, sound and sculptural performances. Here, the general public became both audience and performer, creating the experience through their engagement.
Our current theme Paradise (2020-2022) brings a 10 year arch full circle. Our focus on large-scale installations is combined with long-term community engagement projects and accessible, playful engagement. During this time manual play and off-grid or solar illuminations have taken the place of interactive technology. Our love of handmade design, domestic and found objects has evolved into an experimental approach to working with recycled, reclaimed, and / or sustainable materials.
RECENT FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Lost Lanes, Wagga Wagga NSW, 2021
Moomba / City Playground 2021
North Geelong Community Lantern Trail | COGG Arts Industry Commission 2021
Creative Victoria Creative Learning Partnership | TIO x WELS x FCAC 2020
Treasure Hill Artist Village - Solo Exhibition, Taiwan 2020
Upstream Festival of Arts & Culture, Albury Wodonga 2020
Enlighten, ACT 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Extreme Arts Holiday Program, FCAC, VIC 2015 - 2022
Glen Eira Libraries, Summer Program 2020, 2022
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), 2021
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, 2021
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