Heap

Ideas worth having are rarely clean, easy or safe.

HEAP is a monumental new artwork transforming the Carriageworks foyer into a vast landscape of earth, excavation and discovery. Part installation, part archaeological dig, HEAP invites audiences to step barefoot into the dirt, take up a trowel and begin searching. Buried beneath the surface are dangerous ideas concealed as artworks: new commissions from eight leading Australian artists waiting to be unearthed.

As each work emerges from the ground it becomes a shared act of discovery, open for all to examine, question and confront.

World Premiere. Produced and commissioned by the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Original concept Danielle Harvey and Cecily Hardy.

Collaborating artists: Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri), Aretha Brown (Gumbaynggirr), Keg de Souza (NSW), Tarryn Gill (WA), HOSSEI (NSW), Sophie Penkethman-Young (NSW), Tim Silver (NSW), EJ Son (NSW).

For ages 12+ only. Children aged 12 to 16 years to be accompanied by an adult. Sessions are free — book tickets to secure your spot (max 2 tickets per transaction). Hear more from the artists in the Unearthing Danger talk.