The Wilds

Rising, Melbourne’s new winter arts festival transformed the Sidney Myer Music Bowl into an outdoor art gallery.

Cave Urban was invited to create several bamboo installations as part of “The Wilds”, a precinct filled with art, local food and entertainment.

Planned as a one-way experience (due to the pandemic restrictions), the journey starts by walking through “Bamboo Forest”, a 12m tall installation with everchanging lights and surrounding sounds (music composed for this event by Mark Mitchell and Pascal Babare). A series of woven bamboo orbs captured in the forest and scattered across the site, reminds visitors of the Moon’s eclipse from which the festival takes its name.

The cathedral-like vaulted bamboo “Light Tunnel” leads visitors to the food & beverage area behind the bowl. The 45m long “Woven Tunnel”, built across the main amphitheatre, is the central artwork. After moving among and through the artworks, the journey ends at the bowl, where visitors can ice skate beneath Luke Jerram’s giant Museum of the Moon.