SOFT CENTRE 2025 to take over Sydney with experimental art and electronic music

Expect international electronic sensations, home-grown immersive art pioneers and critical conversations at SOFT CENTRE.
An artist dress in a costume with cactus-like limbs sticking out of their back surrounded by a circle of onlookers. The room is awash in red light. SOFT CENTRE 2022.

SOFT CENTRE, the festival featuring sound, new media and experimental art, will return as a multi-day, multi-venue showcase from 28-31 August, taking over Sydney by storm with a brand new partnership featuring London-based global radio platform, NTS.

Highlights include a new work by transhumanist and boundary-pushing artist Stelarc; a collision of experiment music, performance art and visual installations at a revamped industrial power station; and an audiovisual concert by renowned Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, seen in the Australian festival circuit including Dark Mofo, Asia TOPA and Now or Never.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_