SURGE : Tantrum Youth Arts
A one-night-only, high-voltage arts party taking over Newcastle Museum.
Electric and unexpected, SURGE is a high-voltage extravaganza of art and performance from Newcastle’s most exciting early-career artists. Curated by Tantrum Youth Arts and transforming Newcastle Museum for one night only, SURGE is a punk explosion of new performance, music, and interactive, visual and installation art.
Audiences are invited to curiously curate their own evening from offerings of both scheduled performances and walk-in experiences: Relive your teenage PDHPE class with the most unhinged teachers imaginable; be rocketed into space for a shimmering alien encounter; join the factory line of a pick/pack to explore workplace tensions; meet outrageous music-creating monsters and make some noise. With more genre-bending surprises to come!
Stay for one performance or go all-in. Come for the thing you know you’re gonna love; stay for the unexpected. We double dare you. Full program and timings available in September.
THE SURGE LINE-UP
Alana McGaughey: Theatre maker who creates work on the politics of living, on being an engaged participant in the ethics surrounding your own existence within the social order of now.
BRuSH: Dynamic, musical interplay and conversations between sax and drums, utilising electronic elements triggered in real time.
Jada Laurie: Warrimay, Birrbay woman, performer and multidisciplinary artist who is loudly passionate about creating joyful art.
Joshua Ingle: VJ and installation artist who creates responsive pieces using light, sound, and code to explore habits and ritual.
Bethany O’Sullivan: Multi-instrumentalist muso, lover of noise, creator of playful, energetic sound.
Phoebe Turnbull: Feral theatre maker and hopeful performer who explores ideas of care and attention.
Sanziana Timis: Multidisciplinary artist who captures a restlessness in people and nature, exploring feminist themes and the invisible.
Shaana-Anne: Multidisciplinary visual artist with an alienatic style visible to the empathetic viewer.
SURGE Ensemble: Newcastle’s newest training ground for early-career artists, exploring experimental immersive theatre experiences.
Tara Barrington: Queer movement artist whose practice seeks to unpack feminist ideology by exploring the interplay of softness and strength through shape and texture.
DURATION
4.5 hours in total, drop-in for as little, or as long, as you like!
SENSORY & CONTENT WARNING
SURGE is suitable for ages 16+. Individual works will have content warnings at the event.
ACCESSIBILITY
Newcastle Museum is a fully accessible venue. Social stories will be available in September, which will outline what you can expect at the event.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tantrum Youth Arts has been making explosive new work for almost 50 years. As a hub for early career artist development, Tantrum has curated the most exciting collection of early-career artists from the Hunter and supported them in developing new work for SURGE. This marks a dynamic and boundary pushing moment in Tantrum’s history, as it returns to New Annual for their fourth year.
ARTISTS & COLLABORATORS
Creative Director: Nel Kentish.
Co-Producers: Alana McGaughey and Phoebe Turnbull.
SURGE Artists: Alana McGaughey, Bethany O'Sullivan, BRuSH, Jada Laurie, Joshua Ingle, Phoebe Turnbull, Sanziana Timis, Shaana-Anne, SURGE Ensemble, Tara Barrington.
SOCIAL MEDIA
www.instagram.com/tantrumyoutharts/
SURGE is presented in partnership with Newcastle Museum.
Audiences are invited to curiously curate their own evening from offerings of both scheduled performances and walk-in experiences: Relive your teenage PDHPE class with the most unhinged teachers imaginable; be rocketed into space for a shimmering alien encounter; join the factory line of a pick/pack to explore workplace tensions; meet outrageous music-creating monsters and make some noise. With more genre-bending surprises to come!
Stay for one performance or go all-in. Come for the thing you know you’re gonna love; stay for the unexpected. We double dare you. Full program and timings available in September.
THE SURGE LINE-UP
Alana McGaughey: Theatre maker who creates work on the politics of living, on being an engaged participant in the ethics surrounding your own existence within the social order of now.
BRuSH: Dynamic, musical interplay and conversations between sax and drums, utilising electronic elements triggered in real time.
Jada Laurie: Warrimay, Birrbay woman, performer and multidisciplinary artist who is loudly passionate about creating joyful art.
Joshua Ingle: VJ and installation artist who creates responsive pieces using light, sound, and code to explore habits and ritual.
Bethany O’Sullivan: Multi-instrumentalist muso, lover of noise, creator of playful, energetic sound.
Phoebe Turnbull: Feral theatre maker and hopeful performer who explores ideas of care and attention.
Sanziana Timis: Multidisciplinary artist who captures a restlessness in people and nature, exploring feminist themes and the invisible.
Shaana-Anne: Multidisciplinary visual artist with an alienatic style visible to the empathetic viewer.
SURGE Ensemble: Newcastle’s newest training ground for early-career artists, exploring experimental immersive theatre experiences.
Tara Barrington: Queer movement artist whose practice seeks to unpack feminist ideology by exploring the interplay of softness and strength through shape and texture.
DURATION
4.5 hours in total, drop-in for as little, or as long, as you like!
SENSORY & CONTENT WARNING
SURGE is suitable for ages 16+. Individual works will have content warnings at the event.
ACCESSIBILITY
Newcastle Museum is a fully accessible venue. Social stories will be available in September, which will outline what you can expect at the event.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tantrum Youth Arts has been making explosive new work for almost 50 years. As a hub for early career artist development, Tantrum has curated the most exciting collection of early-career artists from the Hunter and supported them in developing new work for SURGE. This marks a dynamic and boundary pushing moment in Tantrum’s history, as it returns to New Annual for their fourth year.
ARTISTS & COLLABORATORS
Creative Director: Nel Kentish.
Co-Producers: Alana McGaughey and Phoebe Turnbull.
SURGE Artists: Alana McGaughey, Bethany O'Sullivan, BRuSH, Jada Laurie, Joshua Ingle, Phoebe Turnbull, Sanziana Timis, Shaana-Anne, SURGE Ensemble, Tara Barrington.
SOCIAL MEDIA
www.instagram.com/tantrumyoutharts/
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SURGE is presented in partnership with Newcastle Museum.
