Gang Festival and creative exchange is an artist-led initiative celebrating the deep links between Indonesian and Australian community arts. Gang Festival takes as its theme the Indonesian word for alleyway. It straddles a dual reference to small roads and particular social groupings; it refers to the space betwixt and between more permanent and conventional roads and roles. In Indonesian communities, ‘gang’, forms a critical artery in Kampung culture, where local trade and communities thrive in close proximity to one another. Gangs also evoke images of crevices, margins, and a rich density of peripheral culture. We also draw from the English meaning of the word to describe an exciting cross-cultural collaboration between a large number of art workers who situate their work on the margins of commercial art practice in Australia and Indonesia.

'Gangways' is a documentary that follows the Gang Festival - an unprecedented exchange between Indonesian and Australian artists - set against a backdrop of urban and rural beauty, contemporary music and an unending kaleidoscope of cutting edge artwork. Follow the surprises and struggles of these underground artists as they explore their diversity and seek to discover that which unites them.
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