Confluence 

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This winter at GSPF 2023 we dive into a [Confluence]. The iconic Gertrude Street Projection Festival returns for its fifteenth year in 2023, Nightly from July 27 till August 6 activating multiple sites along Gertrude Street. 

[Confluence] is an act of coming together, a merging of two rivers! The festival this year reflects this, and activates multiple sites along Gertrude Street. Weaving together community + art, public + space, night + light, sight + site. Bringing our community together with projections by our 11 artists-in-residence alongside some special projects, offsite activations, events, parties, talks and screenings.

For 12 nights [July 27th to August 6th], we activate the civic spaces of Gertrude Street with conceptual video artworks made by artists Lilah Benetti, The ElectroPoetics, Alana Hunt, Tahlia Palmer, Juan Rodriguez Sandoval, Jamali Bowden and Leitu Bonnici, Melody Woodnutt, Henry Lai-Pyne, Sarah Aiken, Tully Arnot, Naina Sen, alongside community projects with Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Visible, Collingwood College with Rali Beynon and James Henry, Yarra Youth Services, and VCA Animation Students. 

Join us as we invigorate our senses through the merging strands of history, technology, experience, materials, politics, and emotions. Project your subjectivity and reflect with us on our collective worlds, in this Confluence of interlacing sensations.

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The Gertrude Street Projection Festival is a not-for-profit, community arts festival that has provided sustainable benefits to Australia’s artists for over ten years. Gertrude Street Projection Festival focuses on providing exemplary assistance with education and support to artists by providing a platform on which they can realise their full, creative and professional potential. In winter walls, laneways, buildings and shopfronts come alive along Gertrude Street featuring projections, live events and performances, inviting an estimated 55,000 visitors annually.
 

The Festival exhibits projection and contemporary new media art in public, accessible spaces. Projections range from large-scale installations on walls to intimate experiences of virtual reality. Gertrude Street Projection Festival is made possible by donations from the local community, businesses and grants from local council.​ The festival has been a curated annual event since 2008

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www.gspf.com.au