Join us for a very spooky opening night party this Friday the 13th.

A deliciously dark exhibition featuring over 20 artists, Dead Ringer will lure you into a Tahitian chief mourner’s thick tropical forest with Lisa Reihana, explore previously silenced Gothic Australian histories in Brook Andrew’s new series Possessed and show infra-red glimpses of secret indiscretions in Leo Maguire's tender Rosa series.

It’s all happening in the Perth Cultural Centre with DJs Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela & Kynan Tan playing creepy tunes, the TruckStop markets providing treats, visuals on the big screen and an outdoor bar until 9pm!

Dead Ringer Opening Night Party
6pm - 9pm
PICA Galleries & Perth Cultural Centre
FREE EVENT
RSVP here 

Meet some of Australia's most exciting contemporary artists this weekend at PICA during our huge afternoon of artist talks! This is a great opportunity to gain an insight into the influences and ideas behind some of the works in the exhibition from the artists themselves.

The talks kick off at 2pm with a hot line-up of local, national and international heavy hitters, including Megan Cope, Rachael Dease, Mikala Dwyer, Tim Gregory, Lisa Reihana and Keg de Souza.

LOCATION
PICA Galleries

DATE & TIME
Sat 14 Nov, 2pm

FREE EVENT

There's plenty to see and do at PICA during the Perth International Arts Festival in 2016!

EXHIBITION
Nathalie Djuberg & Hans Berg: The Secret Garden, 11 Feb - 24 April | FREE
Explore the surreal, sensorial secret worlds of Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg at PICA this summer! 

PERFORMANCE
Claire Cunningham, Give Me a Reason to Live, 2 - 5 March 2016 | $25 - $36
Claire Cunningham pushes her mind and body to its limit in a breathtaking, physically demanding work about stigma, faith, fear and the search for compassion. 

pvi collective, Black Market 16 - 27 Feb 2016 | $71 - $79 
Part roaming artwork, part real-life video game, blackmarket invites you into a dark underworld of unlicensed street selling and entrepreneurial trading. 

Is there a copy of you walking around the streets of Perth? Do people repeatedly say hello to you thinking you're someone else? In anticipation of our upcoming exhibition Dead Ringer that explores doubles, apparitions, twins and Doppelgangers, we want to hear your Doppelganger stories!

Email your Doppelganger story to marketing@pica.org.au. The best story will win a Dead Ringer catalogue and a double pass to Ghost Focus: Double Exposures and Apparitions in Nineteenth-Century Photography on Tuesday 8 December! Competition closes 5pm Thursday 19 November.
 

Writer and director Humphrey Bower and Night Train Productions will commence a two week creative development residency here at PICA on 23 November to work on his newest project, Demons. Demons is an epic multidisciplinary theatre work about terrorism based on Dostoyesky’s novel Demons (aka The Devils and The Possessed). There will be a public showing at the end of the residency in December, stay tuned!  


 

Win a double pass to catch Ships in the Night on Thurs 19 Nov at Four5Nine Bar! Featuring an awesome lineup of poets, writers & lyricists plus a whole stack of musical acts, this is a night not to be missed!

Simply email your full name to marketing@pica.org.au for your chance to WIN!

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. Brook Andrew, Owl, Replicant Series, 2005. Ilfochrome print. Courtesy of Wesfarmers Collection. Lisa Reihana, Tai Whetuki – House of Death, 2014  Digital film Duration: 13.54 min  Courtesy of the artist. Copyright Reihanamations Ltd. Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, The Secret Garden, 2015. Stop motion animation, 1.53 mins. Courtesy the artists; Lisson Gallery, London; and Gio Marconi, Milan. Steve McQueen, Exodus, 1992-97 (video still, detail). Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Ships in the Night, image by Mark Wahlsten. Francisco Goya, Witches’ sabbath or The Great He-Goat, (detail) 1821-1823.