Installations

More Human than Human: Blade Runner

Related to Art & About Sydney
Installed from 20 February 2016 to 20 February 2016
Public artMedia artContemporary artTemporary artArt and About
Sculptures of humanoid figures with intricate, organic designs, lit with blue and green lighting.
Outdoor rooftop movie screening at night, surrounded by tall buildings. Audience members are seated and wearing headphones, watching a large screen.
People stand in a dimly lit, industrial setting with colourful lasers and blue light.
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Inspired by Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece, a dystopian inner-city car park transforms into a futuristic playground.

Curator: Golden Age Cinema & Bar
This artwork was temporary and is no longer at this location.

Artwork description

More Human Than Human is a film, food and art event curated by Golden Age Cinema & Bar that explores a future where man and machine are increasingly blurred.

Set in the dystopian architecture of the Goulburn Street car park in inner Sydney, guests will move through a series of surreal spaces, engaging with film, music, food and artworks. The event will end in a futuristic night market and rooftop screening of the recently remastered Blade Runner.

More Human Than Human promises to immerse guests in the junctions between technology and decay, hope and abandonment, the beautiful and the unnerving. Like Blade Runner, the event inspires us to ask what it means to be human as we move into the ever approaching future imagined by sci-fi filmmakers since the 20th century.

Golden Age Cinema & Bar has captured the imagination of a discerning Sydney audience with its progressive program of cults, classics, creepies, cheapies and the best new releases. Art & About is excited to partner with them to deliver site-specific cinema across our 2015/2016 calendar.

Do androids dream of electric sheep? Come and find out.

Performers suspended on ropes execute acrobatic moves on the side of a tall glass building against a clear sky.

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