Seascapes extends the new Sydney Fish Market’s permanent public artworks into a live performance program, inviting artists to respond to water, food, trade, ecology and the social choreography of the marketplace. Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Cultural Capital, the program activates the precinct through works of sound, movement, ritual and shared experience.

Spanning fourteen projects, the program transforms the public domain into a space for durational performance, collective music-making, embodied storytelling, and participatory exchange. Water is approached as both archive and offering, seafood as medium and memory. From foghorn orchestras and gyotaku printmaking to ancestral water rituals, oyster shucking, inflatable maritime forms and intercultural dance, Seascapes brings the working rhythms of the harbour into dialogue with contemporary live art.

Shaped by seasonality and the evolving life of the site, the program unfolds over time, inviting audiences into a series of intimate and unexpected encounters. Together, these works reframe the Fish Market not only as a place of commerce, but as a space of exchange in its broadest sense—of stories, knowledge, care, and shared presence.

Seascapes positions the new Sydney Fish Market as a cultural destination where art and everyday life meet.

The program can be found here.