MarketMarket
Celebrate and explore the home of the Rapid Creek Markets through the eyes of local creatives. Experimental artists, curators, thinkers and foodies come together in this program of community gatherings and shared artistic experiences.
Alongside this, a national artist-led lab kicks off with a curated program of discussions, meals and workshops to learn, interrogate and foster new collaborations between local, and visiting artists.
Instigated by ACCOMPLICE and Next Wave as part of Darwin Festival.
MarketMarket 2023 Program
Image by Duane Preston
If this flesh could....
Kelly Beneforti
Kelly Beneforti is an independent dance artist and long-term dance animateur at Tracks Dance Company who is privileged to be living and working on Larrakia country. Kelly works within an inclusive, movement-based practice led by the curiosity and history of the body, and that of the individuals she is working with. She is passionate about collaborative making, cultural and social exchange, and empowering participatory processes.
If this flesh could... is a durational dance film shot in one sitting, exploring human flesh and the flesh of fruit in slowly shifting conversation. Touching on concepts of human and environmental fertility, nourishment, loss, and sustainability. This experiment draws from questions of the relationship between our inner and outer, private and public spaces.
This work will run between 2-3 hours and will be displayed on a monitor constantly on loop. Feel free to pop in and enjoy a moment, or take it in over an extended lunch or dinner.
As part of Radical Hospitality: MarketMarket Feed
Saturday 26th August 2023 6pm - 9pm
PART OF TICKETED EVENT
Artwork by Mikaela Lee
Dalirra ( Light in Larrakia)
Mikaela Lee
Mikaela Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist, working predominantly in painting, digital drawing and large-scale mural work. She is currently exploring the place of craft in her practice with the introduction of beading and sculptural ceramics.
Dalirra experiments with moving liquid light in the Lab and projection design in collaboration with the walls of the Rapid Creek Markets. Interested in the fusion of Larrakia's history and culture and the mixing of colours and light at the Rapid Creek market or originally Gurambai (Rapid Creek) to the Larrakia people.
Mikaela is excited about exploring a different medium and experimenting with colours and the opportunity to bridge colour, and light projection with her Larrakia culture and stories.
As part of Radical Hospitality: MarketMarket Feed
Saturday 26th August 2023 6pm - 9pm
PART OF TICKETED EVENT
Image by Jett Street
Radical Hospitality: MarketMarket Feed
Radical Hospitality invites you to converge, connect and spark new encounters with artists, thinkers, innovators, friends and neighbours through the radical power of sharing.
Founder of local experimental group the Sweat Collective and producing company ACCOMPLICE Britt Guy collaborates with the visible and sometimes less visible tangles of place and people at the Rapid Creek Shops on Larrakia Country.
Inviting you to heighten your senses as you move through a transitory program of discussion, new media and audio works while feasting on a three course meal prepared by locals whose businesses call Rapid Creek Shops home.
This is an opportunity to take some time to generously connect and listen to our everyday entangled collaborators.
Rapid Creek Shops
Saturday 26th of August 2023 6pm - 9pm
$55
Ticket includes the creative program entry and three course meal.
MarketMarket DJ
Kuya James
Artist and music producer Kuya James (aka James Mangohig) grew up in the tropical and multicultural city of Darwin; the capital of the Northern Territory on Larrakia land. Kuya James is both an ARIA nominated producer and artist. In 2016 he started CLUB AWI as part of the Darwin Festival and it continues to be the festival's late night party spot. With a twenty year career behind him, in the past five years, James has been committed to projects and new performance work which centres around Asian/Australian stories and which are collaborations with Asian/Australian artists. This has been hugely important to him and has included a strong emphasis on partnering and advocating for Filipino artists.
The Rapid Creek Markets are a regular part of his life. Through a friend he has been getting to know the store holders and asking them about their favourite music, what they loved before they migrated (or their parents migrated) and what they continue to enjoy now. These conversations will produce a DJ set including everything from Thai disco to Indonesian psych rock music and everything in between including a healthy dose of pop music from the last 5 decades.
As part of Radical Hospitality: MarketMarket Feed
Saturday 26th August 2023 6pm - 9pm
PART OF TICKETED EVENT
Image by Migoy Photos
Fruit
Matthew van Roden
Matthew’s work explores spaces between apparent binaries as locations for queer creative praxis. Working primarily with wax, text, and digital video, van Roden is interested in ideas about the body, text, language and subjectivity.
They will experiment with Risographic animations, QR coded to fruits + vegetables at the Sunday Rapid Creek Markets.
Rapid Creek Markets
Sunday 27th August 2023 7am - 2pm
FREE
Rapid Creek Radio
Carlo Ansaldo
Carlo Ansaldo is an artist, project manager and community facilitator working across the visual arts and music industries in Gulumerrgin/Darwin. When they are not pursuing their own creative projects, they collaborate to support and showcase Northern Territorian creatives of all persuasions.
Carlo is primarily interested in developing creative possibilities for how we will move together through this late capitalist world-in-crisis and cultivate a communist horizon. They are currently channelling this ambition into cosmic DJ sets, community radio projects and writing a speculative science fiction novel exploring the commercial industrialisation of asteroid mining from a NT perspective.
Carlo is looking forward to collecting audio material on-site at Rapid Creek and during the labs to develop the beginnings of an audio sound track that has the potential to be broadcast locally. Their hope is that this broadcast will plant the seed for a local community radio project to grow. They are looking forward to collaborating with musicians and sound-based artists locally and nationally to test and develop this idea.
Samples from recordings will feature along side Matthew van Roden’s animations.
Rapid Creek Markets
Sunday 27th August 2023 7am - 2pm
MarketMarket 2023 LAB ARTISTS
Listed as pictured from top to bottom, left to right.
Nathan Stoneham,
Kristi Monfires,
Kuya James (James Mangohig), Jocelyn Tribe,
Rhanjell Villanueva,
Kelly Beneforti,
Matthew van Roden,
Mikaela Lee,
Britt Guy,
Carlo Ansaldo,
Naina Sen.
