puppetry | activations | interactive installations | immersive arts | community engagement | experimental performance
Founded in 2006, the indirect Object is an award-winning arts group creating original, immersive experiences for non-traditional spaces.
With a core team of collaborators, our work blends a handmade aesthetic with technology to engage the senses. We are known for our ability to create responsive, original experiences that generate a strong emotional connection.
With our roots in experimental puppetry, our key interest in exploring the relationship between space, light, performing object and audience has lead to an expansive creative practice that reflects our commitment to exploring new ideas. Regardless of the public outcome of our creative developments, our work is always evolving, accessible, sensory, and free to the public.
All projects are original and developed, designed and built by a small group of multi-skilled long-term collaborators. 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, while our interactive outdoor installations are the culmination of years of experimentation with light, sound, design, and interactive tactile objects (be a puppet, a luminous wire, or a fibreglass sculpture). These projects also reflect the shared skills, insights, and creative direction of our ongoing collaboration.
RECENT FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Celebrate Brimbank Day, VIC 2019
Trail of Lights, VIC 2019
Glow Winter Arts Festival, VIC 2019
Glow Festival, HOTA Home of the Arts, QLD 2019
Winterfest Parramatta, NSW 2019
Luminous, Gladstone, QLD 2018, 2019
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
Enlighten, ACT 2017, 2018, 2019
Geelong After Dark, VIC 2019
Moonlight Festival, VIC 2019
Storyfest, VIC 2019
Kids Day Mackay, QLD 2019
Illuminate the River, VIC 2019
SeaChange Festival, NSW 2018
Illuminate Mackay, QLD 2018
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
SHAP, Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC), VIC 2015 - 2019
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. Makers Market, VIC 2017
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
