Magnify! An Immersive Insect World

Created by dan eleni carey and Amelie Vandestock (Amelie Ecology), MAGNIFY! was an interdisciplinary, immersive arts event designed to celebrate the launch of Amelie’s debut studio album and mark a decade of Wild Ground Creative Adventures. Presented at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre and supported by Amelie’s 2023 Blue Mountains City of the Arts Grant, MAGNIFY invited audiences into a vibrant, speculative insect-world—part celebration, part ecological provocation.

The event wove together installation art, live music, participatory making and performance to create a richly sensorial experience for all ages. Guests were greeted by a large-scale “insect city” constructed from loose parts and found materials, alongside sensory art-making stations, nature-based science provocations, and performances by Stuart Christie’s Bah-Hah Circus School.

At the heart of the event - Hosted by “Dragonfly” (dan eleni) and Amelie Ecology - was a live performance of Amelie’s debut songs, fusing music, movement and ecological storytelling.

The immersive world was included collaborative installation curated by dan eleni: a kaleidoscopic garden of hand-crafted flowers made by community members using foraged and recycled materials. Through a series of pre-event drop-in making spaces, visitors were invited to contribute to the living installation—an evolving participatory artwork that served as a portal into the MAGNIFY world.

MAGNIFY embodied a joyful, collective reimagining of multispecies worlds and offered a playful entry point into larger conversations about biodiversity, co-existence, and kinship across species lines.

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