The Midnight Horrors
Oh no it’s: The Midnight Horrors! That group of artists making work in the fields of performance art, live art, contemporary theatre, and sometimes you dream about them. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, the collaboration was formalised in early 2022.
Lead by (Teneille Clerke & Tobias Manderson-Galvin) the Midnight Horrors is comprised of core members (approx. 7-9) and supported by a wider artistic network of trouble makers, occultists, and ne’er-do-wells who have been working together and alone-together making experimental performance and unconventional theatre for the last twenty years.
They’re interested in Hauntology. Chaos. Outrunning their pasts. You might encounter them by a river, at an old tip, in an empty restaurant, or a national cultural institute. They’re genius! They’re brilliant! They’re bullshit artists! They’re the Midnight Horrors.
Fast Fashun art collective
Fast Fashun is a queer art collective from Melbourne, focused on the climate emergency. The collective uses art therapy, improvisational theatre, and visual art making to create durational interactive installations where audiences come face-to-face with the waste produced by the fast fashion industry.
Fast Fashun has received recognition from the 2021 Green Room Awards for Contemporary and Experimental Performance and was a finalist in the Midsumma Australia Post Art Award in 2022.
The collective comprises Tenfingerz, Famous Artist Sebastian Berto, Luna Aquatica, and Sarah Seahorse. The artists have been collaborating on projects for the past decade.
The collective’s work has been described as ‘a mad, technicolour, subversive and enlightened spectacle that Leigh Bowery would have been proud of’. Fast Fashun’s unique approach to addressing the impact of fast fashion and empowering audience’s creativity is a testament to the power of art in effecting social change.