Our Docklands Family…
The MBassy Dance is lucky enough to have been a member of the Renew Docklands family, an initiative by Renew Australia, who work with broader revitalisation and placemaking initiatives to bring your towns and mainstreets to life!
The MBassy Dance Team and our friends in Docklands are grateful for the support of the City of Melbourne and State Government of Victoria for supporting small artistic businesses like ours. Take a look at all the wonderful small businesses we work with…
Two Can Productions
…a couple of can-do guys with cameras!
Orion and Torben collectively have 10 years of extensive experience in video, filmmaking, and photography. Since its inception, Two Can Productions has grown considerably, creating brand, event and commissioned video and media content. Two Can has a can-do attitude to working with small budgets and big ideas, finding great success in working with small and new businesses.
Two Can Productions is highly passionate about a broad range of creative disciplines, and particularly love expressing and capturing narrative through film in both commercial and artistic realms.
La Guapa Outerwear
La Guapa Outerwear is a sustainable and ethical outerwear brand located in Melbourne. La Guapa strives to create a fashion label that is unique, trendy yet kind to the environment, through the support of local manufacturers, and the education of customers on the negative effects of fast fashion and the importance of going slow. The brand creates classic pieces to remain with the wearer through the ever changing trend oriented market – turning the use of vintage and deadstock fabrics into a point of value and differentiation. As part of their practice, La Guapa runs a series of workshops and masterclasses to demonstrate that through education, change can be brought about by passion, enlightenment and experience.
WØRKS
WØRKS is a boutique personal care brand that meets the needs of modern consumers by formulating organic, plant-based and biodegradable products that outperform their synthetic counterparts.
With Danish and Australian founders, WØRKS bridges the gap between renowned Scandinavian design and locally sourced raw materials. Our organic and aesthetic products for the hands, body and home are made ethically in Melbourne, Australia and designed authentically in Århus, Denmark.
They operate with a holistic approach to good living, a strong focus on timeless design, and an unwavering commitment to environmental integrity to create high-end sensory products that enhance daily rituals and elevate interior spaces.
Chris Bowes
Projections On Collins - “Feedback”
Feedback is a generative artwork created by Chris Bowes, a photographer, artist and educator based in Naarm (Melbourne). A webcam is watching the screen on which the webcam’s video feed is displayed, thus the system becomes trapped within a cycle of cause and effect, causing the image to quickly dissolve into a hypnotic dance of pulsating pixels.
As the computer attempts to make sense of what it sees, it gets caught in a loop, trying to both produce and reproduce an image at the same time. Through this internal struggle, the system switches from something that watches passively to instead become something which is reactionary, and in doing so appears to come alive.
OzGrav
Projections On Collins
The mission of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) is to capitalise on the historic first detections of gravitational waves to understand the extreme physics of black holes and warped spacetime, and to inspire the next generation of Australian scientists and engineers through this new window on the Universe.
OzGrav is funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence funding scheme, and is a partnership between Swinburne University (host of OzGrav headquarters), the Australian National University, Monash University, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, and University of Western Australia, along with other collaborating organisations in Australia and overseas.
Collide Public Art
Projections On Collins - “Inside Out Reflections”
Collide is a public art initiative that connects artists, architects, developers and government to create impactful public artworks, with artist James Voller at the helm. James’s practice is focused on creating large-scale public artworks that examine places and architecture.
The piece ‘Inside Out Reflections’ is no different. This work explores Melbourne’s suburban architecture imagery by projecting it on Collins Street. It takes imagery from Melbourne’s Heritage warehouses as a border to the exterior of the shopfront with cut-out sections for projection imagery. Digitally manipulated photographs of the State Library of Victoria are be colourised and rear-projected into the cut-out sections, depicting factory interiors from in and around Docklands.
