It is about to get strange in the CBD with the third annual Strange Festival coming next week.
The festival, running from June 14 to June 23, will transform empty storefronts across the city into immersive and interactive art installations.
The free self-guided trail will feature 35 artists in 20 vacant spaces, including Carillon City, the Liberty Theatre, Forrest Chase and Yagan Square.
Level two of Carillon City is expected to have some installation favourites, including a forest made out of donated fabric and a clothing line inspired by mushrooms.
There will be a 20-metre long eye at Elizabeth Quay enabling visitors to get up close to an eyeball, optic nerve tunnel and a giant inflatable brain.
For lovers of Mad Max, there will be people battling it out with batons in a thunderdome, a market where themed “clans” will sell and trade trinkets, and modified robotic vacuum cleaners will wrestle in the rink.
“Strange is very strange — we are serving up unique and unusual visual art that engages visitors in new ways through sculpture, projection, video, soundscapes, performance pieces,” Strange Festival creative director Jess Oakley said.
“The art trail is immersive, it’s enthralling and it’s free.”
Exhumed Cinema will also be back for the festival at the Como Theatre, with 63 classic and obscure movies screening on 35mm and 16mm film.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the festival, with 78,000 people getting strange last year.
For more information visit, strangefestival.com.au.