Send a message into the stars
You’re invited to respond to the prompt Between us by filling out the form at the Perth Festival website. You can also select the date you want your message to appear.
Artist Michaela Gleave encourages you to think about addressing the intimacy, and complexity of the space between 'you and I', or 'us'. The responses received accumulate and build over time and will be woven into a poem and translated into morse code before being transmitted into the stars from the rooftop of AGWA.
If your submission is selected, you will receive an email confirming the time and date that your message will be played, which you can experience in person or online via live stream. Send a message into the stars here.
About the artist
Michaela Gleave is an Australian born artist based in Gadigal/Wangal country, Sydney, Australia. Her conceptual practice spans numerous mediums and platforms including digital and online works, installation, performance, photography, sculpture and video. Her projects question the nature of reality and our innate relationship to time, matter, and space, focussing particularly on the changing intersections between art, science and society. Michaela’s work has been presented extensively across Australia as well as in Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom, Austria, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Iceland, the United States and Mexico. She has developed major performance and installation works for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart; Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth; Bristol Biennial, UK; TarraWarra Art Museum, Melbourne; Carriageworks, Sydney; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne among others. She has been awarded residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan, and CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia. In 2015 Michaela won the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize. and was awarded a prestigious Creative Australia Fellowship in 2013. Permanent installations of her work have been commissioned by Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC, Salamanca Arts Centre, TAS and The Rechabite, WA.
Artistic Credits
Artist Michaela Gleave
Lighting design Bosco Shaw
Programming Warren Armstrong
This project builds upon elements of the previous work 'Messages of Hope, Messages of Love' created in collaboration with Fausto Brusamolino.