Slow Art Collective, founded in 2009 by Chaco Kato and Dylan Martorell, is a collaborative art platform dedicated to the principles of the Slow Movement, sustainability, and creative community engagement. The collective explores the poetic potential of everyday materials such as string, rope, and textiles, transforming simple gestures and processes into immersive, sensory-rich experiences. Their work emphasizes process over product, encouraging audiences to engage actively and at a human pace, fostering reflection, connection, and participation. 

Through both intimate and large-scale installations, Slow Art Collective blurs the boundaries between artist and audience, turning shared spaces into sites of experimentation, collaboration, and play. Their projects have been presented at notable institutions and events including the Exploratarium in San Francisco, Tokyo Biennale, TarraWarra Museum of Art, McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Powerhouse Museum, Mpavilion, NGV, Gertrude Contemporary, and Esplanade Singapore. By valuing patience, sustainability, and human-scale interactions, Slow Art Collective creates art that resonates with both local communities and global audiences, offering meaningful alternatives to conventional contemporary art practices. 

It’s time to reflect, on a year, on a thought, on anything at all!
REFLECTION is a space for people to reflect both literally and metaphorically and we need your help! In this installation, we will hold up a mirror to the world around us and explore what it means to reflect. From the mirror funhouse to the cool still water, we will look down, look up and look inside.

 REFLECTION is a large-scale interactive installation that invites participants to draw and write on brightly coloured mirror shapes. REFLECTION encourages participants of all ages to see themselves within the context of their community. At night REFLECTION glows with ultraviolet light turning your drawings into electric lines of colour.

Have you ever made music with a marigold? Composed with a chrysanthemum? Or listened to some lavender? Connect with nature! Reach out and touch real plants to play these unique organic instruments.

The Musical Plants are new experimental instruments that combine organic matter and bespoke digital sensors developed by Playable Streets. For the first-time these plant-based instruments are available for the public to play and create new live compositions.

Swelling with textural waves and phasing rhythmic movement, The Musical Plants will be unlike any musical instrument you have ever seen, heard or played. The Musical Plants installation is open to everyone to interact with, explore, and make new collaborative compositions.

A master of deadpan humour, Nick Schuller is as dry as they come. His acerbic wit and understated delivery have established Nick as one of the most exciting acts in the thriving Melbourne comedy scene. 

He was handpicked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to be part of the prestigious Comedy Zone in 2022 and has toured nationally with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow.

He has performed around the country and the world and has supported some of the biggest names in comedy including Tom Gleeson, Ray O'Leary and Phil Wang.