Vivid Live 2011 | Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham

Sunday, June 5, 8.30pm
Opera Theatre
Tickets on Sale Monday, April 4, 9am

Chris Cunningham has established himself as one of the most groundbreaking video artists of his time with a portfolio of work that ranges from the strikingly beautiful to the down right terrifying. After training with the likes of Stanley Kubrick his worked became intrinsically linked to robotics and electronic music. This niche led Chris to develop the now legendary videos for Aphex Twin's Windowlicker and Monkey Drummer. Since then he has produced a number of videos for major artists including Bjork and Madonna. Recently Chris has ventured from video to the world of music, producing a number of tracks for The Horror's second album Primary Colours.

His live show is an audio visual onslaught of cut up film and music, a perfect swansong for the faint hearted.

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Vivid Live is a festival of music and art held annually at The Sydney Opera House. In 2011 it will run from May 27th to June 5th and will be curated by Modular's Steve Pavlovic.