Swingers have their moment to shine at RISING 2025

The first event for Melbourne’s winter festival RISING has been announced: a playable art exhibition celebrating the game of mini golf.
'Swingers – The Art of Mini Golf' has been announced as the first event for RISING 2025. The photo is a close-up of someone wearing glamorous high heeled shoes, standing on a fake putting green. Their right foot rests on a golf ball and they are leaning on a mini golf club. The dramatic space of the Flinders Street Station Ballroom is visible in the background.

Swingers – The Art of Mini Golf was today (19 February) announced as the first major production for RISING 2025.

The interactive exhibition will be presented at the Flinders Street Station Ballroom and features artworks by the likes of US performance artist, filmmaker and author Miranda July (whose body of work includes films such as 2005’s Me and You and Everyone We Know and 2020’s Kajillionaire and the 2024 novel All Fours); Australian visual artist Kaylene Whiskey, whose fusion of pop culture and Aṉangu traditions often celebrates strong kungkas (women) such as Wonder Woman, Tina Turner and Dolly Parton; and Tokyo’s Saeborg, whose seemingly bright and playful performance works touch on issues of human cruelty and animal consumption, as well as social issues like nursing and care.  

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts