The epic Central Desert landscape is an inspiring playground for the rituals and ‘rites of passage’ for those animals and humans alike released from urban domesticity back into the wild.

Go Feral was an immersive live arts event, an exploration of the feral subculture and simultaneously the dominant feral species in central Australia. When art meets a real bush doof we Go feral! Think ritual, fire, DJ’s, performance, costumes, dance, music, animal prints, leather and lace, fur, beads, bones, face paint, feral humans dressed as feral animals.

We generated a real-life immersive experience, (a real Bush Doof), and the line between art and reality were blurred. We immersed ourselves in a feral subculture experience, an alternate universe on a remote red sand dune costumed and ready to explore. By creating experiential improvisational theatre for real it was a mind-blowing experience for all. We removed the traditional limitations on art, so art permeated reality and reality enveloped art. We allowed for a space for creativity to transform reality and then this experience was photographed, droned and filmed for The Visitors exhibition.

Undaunted by extreme weather, vast distances and flat tyres, the Princess Warrior is ever ‘remote ready’. Drawn by the dramatic beauty and the challenges of remote work, she is soon ‘grown up’, culturally (and generously), by awe-inspiring Aboriginal women. It's demanding and harsh but she keeps coming back for more. If she's lucky, one of those old ladies might sing her a husband (or someone special)!

This worked is inspired by real life ‘Princess Warriors’ I have met along the desert track!

Anna Cadden Photographer | Melanie Fiedler, Nikita Noonan, Frankie Snowdon, Alera Foster, Teresa McCarthy, Anders Pfeiffer Models | Permissions granted through Permits Officer and Anthropology Admin, Central Land Council 

Do you feel most at home in the wilderness and estranged when you’re apart? Is pure romance watching mist rise from a bushland scene or camping under the starry sky? Perhaps nature is your lover not your mother. Are you ready to take the next step of commitment.

In an age where humankind is literally waging war against the earth, this marriage ceremony will re-address the balance by pledging our union with the planet. This dance-based ritual will support and celebrate your connection with nature and affirm your commitment to love and protect.

Warning: This is not a pretty white garden wedding! Be prepared to face the cycle of life and death, to surrender unto the spiral of existence, to ride the wild waves of change as you embrace nature’s exquisite beauty.

Presented by: The ‘Ritualisers’

The ‘Ritualisers’ are a dynamic and ever changing collective of artists led by Franca Barraclough generating rituals to mark important events, stages of life and rites of passage in order to enrich and give meaning to our lives.

I’ve always been fascinated by the phenomena of littering in nature. People spend so much time and money visiting nature reserves but the rubbish they leave behind is evidence of a contradiction: I love to visit these beautiful places, but I don’t care about them or even know they need to be cared for. Is nature perceived as an artificial world that you can discard after usage like watching a film or viewing a magazine? By tweaking the natural environment using dirt, rocks and twigs and applying natural pigments this 3 D environment was painted like a 2D landscape picture. The illusion of perspective generated a deception of depth. It’s a magical illusion like the content of the work which explores the trail of waste and environmental impact left behind the trail of tourism.

Colonial setters to Central Australia have imported an enormous infrastructure of stuff to maintain a certain domestic lifestyle in a desert environment where once life had a simplicity without waste and was lived close to the earth and nature. By placing these European domestic items directly on the earth this work seeks to emphasise the cultural contrasts between settler-colonial and traditional First Nations peoples’ way of living in this environment. This work seeks to emphasis the interconnectedness of two seemingly disparate worlds by arranging the man-made items in golden spiral patterns from nature.

This work was supported and presented as part of Alice Springs artist-run gallery,Watch This Space's 25th Anniversary program.

Permissions granted by Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation; Crown Land Estate; Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics; Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority

Welcome to face readers headquarters. Written on your face is the story of your life and everything about you.

From the outside a black bureaucrat obelisk stands like a government department of officialdom. Through the face reading portal the heavenly opposite is revealed white, swirling and otherworldly. Three modern angelic beings sit in chorus awaiting the next face apparition. Face readers have the ability to bypass ordinary evaluation of human judgement with a "quick, three second" glance they connect directly with the mysteries of the subconscious realm and crystallise the best of a person's essence into poetry.  Face reading poems produced can be kept as a special reminder of the beauty within that sometimes is forgotten in times of self-doubt.

Power punching political posters.

POWER Posters utilises political satire to shine a spotlight on the contentious fracking debate and take aim at the sweet deals between the gas industry and some of the Territory’s top politicians, and the lies underpinning the gas fracking industry.

This provocative exhibition united the art and the political realm bringing together the works from Darwin’s highly successful group show ‘Lies, Damned Lies and Fracking’ with new local works by Alice Springs artists.

Curator and contributing artist Franca Barraclough explained “I have engaged a selection of local artists to illuminate and clarify the complex issue of fracking. We are fighting to protect the environment for all NT residents against the potential damage of fracking by keeping the government honest and accountable through artistic reflection, humour and political satire.’

Jeff Kessel, Alison Hittmann, Ambulance, Julie Jat Taylor, Alex Kelly, Dina Indrasafitri, Lucy Stewart-Kenneth Esther Nunn and more Contributing Artists