PRIDE AT PLAY lets you explore the world of queer indie games. The exhibition and associated webpage allows you to engage with queer interactive games while also contributing to advance research on how computer games can enable queer experience. Xavier Ho is the co-curator, an award-winning interactive designer, who conceived of the exhibition now on at the Sydney College of Arts Project Space and is our queer gamer guide. Dylan Mooney’s light artwork, Still here and thriving, focuses on love in queer society. The large-scale portraits explore identity, desire and representation from his experiences as a proud, queer indigenous man. The work is part of Queer in Warrane, at the Hyde Park Barracks, presented by the Museums of History NSW, in celebration of Sydney WorldPride. We hear from Mel Flyte, Collections Discovery Assistant.

Arts Friday acknowledge the custodians of the Gadigal lands from which the program has been produced and broadcasts from at Eastside Radio.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch

Playlist

As One :: The Unveiling The Unveiling Ruben Records
Langendorf United :: Selam New Yeahno Yowouw Land sing a sonf fighter – Stockholm, Sweden
Exhibition: PRIDE AT PLAY :: Interview: Xavier Ho, interdisciplinary creative technologist and designer SCA Project Space University of Sydney: https://prideatplay.org/
Yarni & Give Me Monarco :: Plucked & Struck Parenthesis yarni.co | Sheffield, UK
Performing at the Foundry616 Saturday 25 February :: Chasing the Moon www.chasingthemoon.com.au
Scrimshire :: Unity Gain Unity Gain London, UK
Event: Queer in Warrane, Hyde Park Barracks, Macquarie St, Sydney :: Interview: Mel Flyte, Collections Discovery Assistant, Museums of History NSQ 5-10pm – Sunday 26 February 2023 FREE – mhnsw.au/whats-on/events/queer-in-warrane/
Contemporary Noise Ensemble :: All Systems On..! An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman Poland – released 3 March
Work Money Death :: Freedom As A Heartfelt Song Thought, Action, Reaction, Interaction Leeds, UK
Poetry Sydney – poetrysydney.org :: Pride Poets: Live recording Livestream will be made online on the Poetry Sydney website next month Knox.live
Nick Walters :: Namaskaram Padmasana London, UK

Sydney WorldPride leads us into the Festival with a suite of exhibitions including Word Made Flesh, a major immersive installation at Carriageworks, by Melbourne artist Paul Yore. Yore has composed makeshift structures, mixed media sculpture and found objects, collage and assemblage, paintings, video, and pulsating sound and light and he lights us up with his thoughts. Death: and becoming is the latest exhibition at the Bearded Tit, in Redfern. Poet Imbar Amira Nassi has his curatorial debut and shares an excerpt of the exhibition description along with a poem. We also hear from exhibiting artists: Annie Parnell, Antony Youssef and Black. Passage is a new art gallery located in the Prince Trade Centre in Haymarket. The opening exhibition Open Ceremony, by Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria is a body of work that interprets his memories and encounters through a lens of surrealism. Marco Rinaldi, Director and the exhibiting artist Eduardo tell us more. The Last Picture Show is the final exhibition at Duck Rabbit, which is set to close its doors after a successful exhibitive program that has been operating since the 2000s. Hugh Ramage is an artist, painter, sculptor and the founder of Duck Rabbit, and he talks us through a snapshot of the journey.

Arts Friday acknowledge the custodians of the Gadigal lands from which the program has been produced and broadcasts from at Eastside Radio.

Produced and presented by Angela Stretch

Playlist

Dele Sosimi & the Estaury 21 :: Ride Out The Storm The ConfluenceLondon UK
Exhibition: Opening Ceremony – 5 March 2023 :: Interview: Marco Rinaldi, Director, Passage + Artist; Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria passagegallery.comArtist talk + dumpling event: February 15th
WAAN :: Open Echo EchoNetherlands
Form & Formless :: Giants Are Real EPjazz re:freshed UK
The Last Picture Show: – 12 February 2023 :: Interview: Hugh Ramage, artist and founder of Duck Rabbit Duck Rabbit Gallery: Little Eveleigh Street, RedfernDuck Rabbit will operate online with future projects in the planning
Exhibition: Word Made Flesh :: Interview: Paul Yore Carriageworks – 26 February 2023carriageworks.com.au
Benny Sing :: Young Hearts Young HeartsReleased 24 March – Amersterdam
Marcus Strickland Twi-Life :: Dustball Fantasy The Universe’s Wildest DreamMiami, Florida
Exhibition: Death; And Becoming :: Interview: Imbar Amira Nassi, poet, curator The Bearded Tit, Redfern– 24 March 2023
Burt Bacharach :: Trains & Boats & Planes The Love Songs of Burt Bacharach
Yazmin Lacey :: Bad Company Voice NotesNottingham, UK