Last in the country for Stereosonic in 2013, Guetta’s stunning gigs are a sensory thrill with seven LED screens, huge projections, over 300 pyro hits on and off the stage, lasers, strobes and so much more. Prepare yourself Melbourne for the biggest dance event of the year.

With worldwide smash hits like ‘Titanium’ (feat Sia), ‘Sexy Bitch’ (feat Akon), ‘Bad’ (feat Vassy), ‘Lovers On The Sun’ (feat Sam Martin) and ‘When Love Takes Over’ (feat Kelly Rowland), Guetta is a modern-day giant and force to be reckoned with. The first DJ in history to reach a staggering two billion streams on Spotify, he has sold 44 million singles and eight million albums. He has 55 million+ followers on Facebook, 18 million+ on Twitter, and is the most-followed artist on Spotify with 5.8 million fans.

Guetta’s list of collaborators and remixes is a roll call of music’s biggest talent: Avicii, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, The Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna and more.

‘You have a set that leaves your chest thumping and your nostrils clogged with more pyro smoke than new year in Dubai!’ – The Guardian

‘The eardrum-splitting bassline throbbed throughout as this wiz of electronic dance and house music stabbed the air…’ – Belfast Telegraph

‘A faultless and energetic performance, David Guetta lifted the roof off…’ – The Mirror

In 2015 alone, Guetta has performed over 120 gigs to more than a million fans, including headline sets at Coachella, Ultra Music Festival, TomorrowLand, Electric Zoo and Wireless. Guetta’s famed ‘F**k Me I’m Famous’ club night, which for a decade has set up been David’s residency at iconic Ibiza night club Pacha, sees a line-up of superstar guests like Robin Schulz, R3hab and Nicky Romero join Guetta every Thursday night from May to October for a crazy night of acrobats, audio-visuals and unmatched atmosphere. With this much of a warm up under his belt this year, his Cup Eve show on November 2nd is guaranteed to be a show of high energy and intensity.

It’s been six years since 2009’s One Love saw Guetta become a global superstar. The album gathered three million album sales, hit #1 in 17 countries, took home two Grammy Awards from six nominations and gongs from the MTV Europe and World Music Awards.

2011’s Nothing But The Beat was an even bigger success: with four million copies sold and the monumental track ‘Titanium’, starring Sia, racking up an amazing 440 million views on YouTube.

Already reaching Gold status, Guetta’s sixth album Listen (out now through Warner Music Australia) debuted at #1 on Dance Album charts in both the UK and USA, while everywhere from France to Germany, Switzerland to Croatia, Austria to Norway and beyond saw the album feature in the top three. The album reached No1 on Itunes in 75 countries. David is also only the 3rd artist ever to have had over 2 billion streams on Spotify.

‘Hey Mama’ (ft. Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Afrojack) is a platinum smash in Australia, enjoying across the board radio airplay.

Sponsored by G.H Mumm House of Champagne, David Guetta’s exclusive Hisense Arena show this Melbourne Cup Eve, will be the hottest dance event in the country. It should not be missed!

David Guetta – One Night in Melbourne
November 02, 2015 – Hisense Arena, Melbourne
www.davidguetta.com

It celebrates Skyspaces, viewing chambers that affect our perception of the sky, and surveys Turrell’s life work, Roden Crater, a naked eye observatory in an extinct volcano on the edge of the Painted Desert, Arizona. The exhibition follows three highly successful shows throughout 2013—at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Guggenheim in New York—with works from LACMA’s tour and spectacular installations purpose-built for Canberra.

Since the 1960s James Turrell has made art from light. He studied mathematics and perceptual psychology, and his background as a Quaker and training as a pilot also inform his practice. After his first sculptures using fire, Turrell began to construct projections that produce illusionistic geometric shapes. Afrum (white) 1966, for example, appears as a hovering cube of light.

Raemar pink white 1969 plays with our perceptions, like a large, luminescent pink canvas levitating in front of a wall. Turrell uses a range of fluorescent, tungsten, fibre-optic, LED and natural light. His art is now located across the globe in permanent installations in museums and private collections—Within without 2010, the Skyspace at the National Gallery of Australia, is one of the most beautiful.

In the 1980s and 90s Turrell developed works that expose visitors to total darkness or isolate an individual in a contained environment. After green 1993 is an immersive installation: its intense red, with soft and hard edges, make it disorientating and exquisite. Bindu shards 2010 is a light cycle for one person, a bodily kaleidoscope with patterns of crystals, shards of light, stars, galaxies and nebulae. This Ganzfeld is part of Turrell’s largest and most marvellous series to date. Once inside, saturated in colour, with no edges or corners, we are uncertain of our surrounds—a feeling akin to walking on clouds. This is contemporary art as you’ve never seen before, and promises an experience not to be missed.

We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically. I like the power of light and space physically because then you can order it materially. Seeing yourself seeing is a very sensuous act—there’s a sweet deliciousness to feeling yourself see something.

James Turrell: A Retrospective Exhibition
13 December 2014 – 8 June 2015
National Gallery of Australia
www.nga.gov.au