Pendulum (θ2)

Pendulum (θ2) returns this August, with its most ambitious program to date, transforming NAUTI Studios into a series of three unique one-night-only contemporary art experiences.

Bringing together 39 local and emerging artists working across sound, image, installation, sculpture, printmaking, film, and live performance, each event presents a completely new exhibition design, curatorial direction, and live music program. No two events are the same.

… Set within the immersive bunker-like surrounds of “The Deep” at Nauti Studios.

08.08.26
Alexandra Spence, Elizabeth Jigalin, Gosha, Kyiesha Booth, Malaika Mfalme, Narrelle Odeh, Rubyrose Bancroft, Safdar Ahmed, tahkoe Live, & The Phurba.

Elizabeth Jigalin is a composer, performer and artist who lives on Gadigal land, Sydney. Guided by curiosity, she collaborates and creates across art-forms. Elizabeth traverses exploratory, improvised, interdisciplinary and chamber music contexts and her work has been featured at festivals worldwide. She regularly performs in series across the city, sharing her experimental, playful and embodied approach to piano and object performance. Additionally, Elizabeth is the founder of @themusicboxproject, an award-winning collective known for their creative music-making.

Born in London and raised across continents, Malaika Mfalme is a Tanzanian/Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist creating on Gadigal Land, and making music that feels both deeply intimate and quietly enormous. Rooted in folk, soul, and East African traditions of harmony and storytelling, their songs wander through tenderness, grief, longing, and the beauty of being changed through love.

Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions, reimagining the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation.

Born out of the long-standing Newtown shopfront that is the @exoticartsofhimalaya, The Phurba is an improvisational trio, creating free spirited, and oriental fusion music.

Playing together for over a decade, Sujan, Lucas, and Adam (murjunga, singing bowls, bells, conch, saxophone, flute, guitar, and accordion) bring together Himalayan ritual instruments, and improvisation forging evolving sounds that emerge through collective listening and live exchange.

A talented wordsmith and producer, Western Sydney’s tahkoe world builds through a sonic fusion of rap & soul. From his ancestry to the hardships that ink his pen, Tahkoe’s resilience rests within the confines of his lyrical storytelling. Utilising sound to speak his truth without noting the repercussions - the music is simply his scripture.