Image by Steven Siewert depicting artists preparing for the 2017 Underbelly Arts Festival, October 7-8.

Showcasing 21 ambitious new projects, the Festival hosts 116 artists from around Australia for a two-week Lab period onsite at the National Art School as they develop their works for the Festival and culminates in a two-day, no holds barred presentation and celebration of contemporary Australian art in all its forms.

Audiences can explore 21 ambitious new projects spanning installation, performance, dance, sound, visual art, intervention, digital art, radical opera, architecture, activist and participatory practices and everything in between.