HEAP – Festival of Dangerous Ideas
17 August 2026
HEAP is a monumental new artwork transforming the Carriageworks foyer into a vast landscape of earth, excavation and discovery.
Part installation, part archaeological dig, HEAP invites audiences to step barefoot into the dirt, take up a trowel and begin searching. Buried beneath the surface are dangerous ideas concealed as artworks: new commissions from eight leading Australian artists waiting to be unearthed.
As each work emerges from the ground it becomes a shared act of discovery, open for all to examine, question and confront.
World Premiere. Produced and commissioned by the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Original concept Danielle Harvey and Cecily Hardy.
Collaborating artists:
Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri)
Aretha Brown (Gumbaynggirr)
Keg de Souza (NSW)
Tarryn Gill (WA)
HOSSEI (NSW)
Sophie Penkethman-Young (NSW)
Tim Silver (NSW)
EJ Son (NSW)