Have you seen Dead Ringer yet? Get a sneak peak of this fearless exhibition in the comfort of your own home through our image gallery, now online! We also have a whole stack of spooky and thrilling events coming up in December to draw you into the delicious darkness of this exhibition, read on...

Join Dr Emily Eastgate Brink, Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia and specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century art, for a fascinating lecture about spirit photography in Victorian times. This talk will explore the ghost photograph as a double portrait and a convenient fiction, while also questioning its role as a document of the living and the dead.

LOCATION
PICA Performance Space

DATE & TIME
Tues 8 Dec, 6pm

TICKETS
$10 - $15, BOOK NOW

Writer, performer and story-teller extraordinaire, Finn O’Branagáin leads visitors on a journey through the darkened chambers and secret spaces of Dead Ringer, drawing on its unsettling tales of ghosts, doppelgängers, changelings and missing twins.

This FREE tour is made for those have heard things go bump in the night, who listen for echoes in the dark or who look behind paintings on hotel walls for secret messages left behind.

LOCATION
PICA Galleries

DATE & TIMES
Fri 11 Dec, 6pm & 8pm

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
Free event - BOOK NOW
 

Join us for one of PICA's most popular series of artist talks, Open Studio Night! Get ready for an evening of lively discussion as we delve deep into the projects of our current studio residents, Nathan Brooker, Peter Cheng and Anna Dunnill. 

LOCATION
All PICA Studios

DATE & TIME
Tues 14 Dec, 6pm

FREE EVENT

Read more about the artists and their projects
 

Expressions of interest are now open for local performers to be involved in pvi collective's new work blackmarket, presented by PICA in association with Perth International Arts Festival and the City of Subiaco. Expressions of interest are due before Tues 15 Dec, 11.59pm. Read more...

A story of contemplation of life’s wisdom gained, lost and remembered, Youth centres around two accomplished men (renowned actors Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel) on vacation in the alps, and their observations about their children's lives and those of their fellow hotel guests. Youth comes to cinemas 26 December but thanks to StudioCanal Australia we are giving away 15 double passes to see it early at an advance screening Saturday 12 December, 10.45am at Luna Cinemas in Leederville!

To win, email marketing@pica.org.au with your full name and the answer to this question:

What is your favourite cultural destination for a holiday?

Images: Angelica Mesiti, In the Ear of the Tyrant, 2013–14 (video still), multi-channel HD video installation, surround sound. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney. Produced by Felix Media, Sydney. Photography: Bonnie Elliott. Dead Ringer (installation view, PICA) 2015. Photo by Alessandro Bianchetti. Brook Andrew, Possessed VI, 2015. Gelatin silver fibre gloss print. 127 x 270 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne. Megan Cope, Boo!, 2015. Photo courtesy of and copyright the artist. Elizabeth Marruffo, Pup pup is the boss of the stars (detail). Wool, silver wire, beads and thread, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of and copyright the artist. Daisy Bygott-Dwyer, Untitled, 2014. Photo courtesy of Monique Curby. Anna Dunnill, A letter to someone, 2014. Linen, embroidery, air dry clay, graphite. pvi collective, photo by James Brown.