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Aphids APHIDS is a 30-year-old artist-led experimental art organisation based in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia

21/10/2026

A new stage work by Mish Grigor / APHIDS makes an attempt at a life with NO DRAMAS

Presented by The Substation and APHIDS

18-21 Nov, 7:30pm
The Substation Main Space

Tickets on sale now, link in bio

This project has been supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts investment and advisory, the City of Melbourne, and Creative Victoria through its Creative Enterprises Program. With special thanks to Robert Salzer Foundation for their support

Processing: Highs, Lows, Gossip, RevelationsA new and juicy APHIDS x Strange Engine publication coming very soon….Publis...
19/10/2026

Processing: Highs, Lows, Gossip, Revelations

A new and juicy APHIDS x Strange Engine publication coming very soon….

Published by Cahyati Auxiliary Publishing Series (CAPS)

Processing design mock up by Azul Bermudez

Out to See Cast Reveal !! André Shannon and Jen Atherton are filmmakers and Co-Founders of the studio, Garden Refle###. ...
17/10/2026

Out to See Cast Reveal !!

André Shannon and Jen Atherton are filmmakers and Co-Founders of the studio, Garden Refle###. Together, they create, publish, and curate radical screen based works that champion vulnerability, resourceful cinema, and q***r community-building across film, video art, and live performance.

Lara Thoms is Co-Artistic Director of APHIDS. She is known for making socially engaged, site-specific, and participatory performance art that often collaborates with people outside the arts, producing unexpected outcomes and alternative modes of art making.

Emmaline Zanelli is a lens-based artist who uses combinations of video, photography, sculpture and performance. Influenced by aesthetics of absurdity and surrealism, she creates work that seeks humour and meaning in the everyday. In recent years, her work has explored themes of labour and youth cultures.

Eliza Lovell is a graduate of Flinders University of South Australia (1992 BA First Class Hons – Drama Centre) and is based on Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide, South Australia). Eliza works nationally and internationally as a Performer, Director, Teaching Artist, Audio Describer, and Intimacy Coordinator (Stage & Screen), with extensive experience leading Community and Cultural Development projects.

Stelly G (Sereima Adimate) is an award-winning Fijian multidisciplinary performance artist, director, and producer based on Gadigal Land in Sydney. Renowned as a local icon within the Australian q***r art and nightlife community, she was named Artist of the Year at the 2024 FBi SMAC Awards and directed the acclaimed feature film Mood Ring.

Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri anti-disciplinary artist whose collaborative projects transfigure spatial dynamics of power across art, design, and architecture. His practice critically examines the contested narratives of Australia’s urban and Indigenous histories in the face of ongoing colonisation

Sen Vanderzalm is Producer and Operations Manager at APHIDS. She is also an opera singer in training. Out to See will be her first ever live opera performance. She is scared. But also excited.

15/10/2026

Limited tickets remaining for Out to See - a new fibrous and flirty APHIDS + Garden Refle### performance work

One night only, Thursday 29 Oct at Drill Hall (26 Therry St Melbourne 3000) come lay in the metaphorical sand with us

Link in bio x

Supported by City Of Melbourne

04/10/2026

Out to See. One beachy and bitchy night. Did we mention we hate sand? Limited tickets left. Link in bio.

Thursday Oct 29 7-9pm
Drill Hall, 26 Therry St

Supported by City of Melbourne

20/09/2026

Early bird tickets sold out for Out to See, First Release on sale now 🏖️ image by the endlessly talented Emmaline Zanelli

Naked but no so afraid, you are welcome to the clothing optional performance: Out to See, an exploration of Australia’s ...
24/08/2026

Naked but no so afraid, you are welcome to the clothing optional performance: Out to See, an exploration of Australia’s oldest legal n**e beach and its depictions on screen.

Hit pause and unpack, undress and misunderstand this beach through the lens of rigorous research and unfiltered gossip.

In collaboration with Garden Refle x x x

Early bird tickets are nearly sold out, get em while they’re hot!

Ticket link in bio

Hugs and kisses to all who attended the Dead Parents Club Premiere 🤍🤍🤍🤍 Was special to share a project so close to our h...
21/07/2026

Hugs and kisses to all who attended the Dead Parents Club Premiere 🤍🤍🤍🤍 Was special to share a project so close to our hearts!!

Thanks to Cinema Nova for hosting and mdff for including us in the festival alongside so many incredible films. Thanks to Jenny Something and Gena Lida Riess for introducing the film so thoughtfully and event weapon Dani Dallas for helping everything run smoothly

Photography by Rocio Lamana 🧡

09/07/2026

Dead Parents Club, an APHIDS documentary

Premiering next week Friday July 17, 6:40pm Cinema Nova as part of Melbourne Documentary Film Festival!

The screening is close to being fully sold out so don’t miss the opportunity to witness our first feature length film on the big screen

Ticket link in bio

Announcing Jen Atherton aka Jenny Something from Garden Refle x x x will be gracing us with a pre screening introduction...
08/07/2026

Announcing Jen Atherton aka Jenny Something from Garden Refle x x x will be gracing us with a pre screening introduction to Dead Parents Club 🧡

Only a few tickets left so be sure to grab yours via the link in our bio on cinema nova’s website!!!

Jens portrait: Lexi Laphor 📸

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