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starving artists. The Fringe Festival makes a
point of bringing the art to the masses, including our sex freaks, circus freaks and starving
artists. You can expect anything from pornography to theatrical comedy to visual arts and
circus. There is even something for the kids!
There is something for everyone at the Melbourne Fringe, with free shows and cheap
shows because, well, everyone in Melbourne
loves a free show!
The most beautiful thing about the Melbourne
Fringe Festival is that the artwork that is exhibited is so farfetched, even artists don’t expect what they see. Conventionally, we go to a
gallery and stare at a painting or we sit in the
audience of a comedy show or theatre performance.
The Fringe Festival, on the other hand, allows
participation between the audience and the
artist for an all-inclusive interactive event. The
Fringe is for people who want excite senses
further beyond their eyes and ears, and likewise, for the artist who wants to engage those
more intimate senses. The raw, unedited and
uncensored nature of the art of the Fringe
Festival really reaches out to our most human
parts and engages the audience in ways other
festivals just don’t.
Even the perverts are welcome at this year’s
Melbourne Fringe Festival with FECK putting
on their first performance ever at the Melbourne Fringe. Their content is explicit and
erotic, bringing the sexy to art. Their show features live erotic performances which should
excite parts of you that you would never have
expected at an arts festival.
The thing about Melbourne is that it is a very
Feck
peculiar
town, and everything you hear about it is true.
The Melbourne Fringe Festival fully embraces
the weirdly wonderful Melbourne characters
and allows them a chance, once a year, to
be socially acceptable publicly (and even on
stage) doing what they do best – being weird
and wacky!
The Melbourne Fringe festival is the perfect
representation of Melbournian artists. That’s
to say, we like creating weird and wonderful
things, even if only few people get to enjoy
it. The Fringe becomes just the leverage that
those creators of weird and wonderful things
need to launch their artwork into the creative
sphere.
The Fringe festival is really the opportunity for
those that are on the fringes! Jessie says that
the Melbourne Fringe Festival is for a “lost,
misfit artist who doesn’t know quite where their
work belongs”. It’s a “big, warm hug and a banner that reads Welcome Home!”