BINGEFEST

A 24 HOUR POP CULTURE MARATHON 
AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE


The concept for Bingefest was simple. How do you bring the internet to life, IRL, in the Opera House? Everything was chaos from there...




Inspired by Spencer Tunick’s The Base (you know, all the naked people laying down on the Opera House steps), Bingefest was headlined by a commissioned performance titled AND IN THE END by LaBeouf Ronkko & Turner. Yes, that LaBeouf. Livestreamed over two nights and featuring a gigantic ticker tape screen on the Opera House, the premise was simple. Audience members come into a theatre, and finish the sentence ‘And in the end...’. The results were then projected onto the Opera House sails in full chaotic glory.



Well, during my Featuring everything from a Buffy marathon with The AV Club (complete with a pizza delivery surprise at midnight), a Jad Abumrad keynote, Harmontown, podcasting genius Julie Snyder taking Serial, collabs with Redfern Convenience Store, fashion house Pelvis, Air BNB, weirdo bedding brand De Rucci, Playstation... you name it, we did it. Here’s a photo from the period. It was a weird time.




We also made this beautiful website, which is probably the most un-opera house thing ever put out by the old pointy building.


THE WHOLE SHEBANG
LABEOUF, RONKKO, TURNER #ANDINTHEEND
DAN HARMON’S HARMONTOWN
JULIE SNYDER PRESENTS SERIAL 
JAD ABUMRAD RADIOLAB KEYNOTE
THE INTERNET CAT VIDEO FESTIVAL 
THE AV CLUB’S BUFFY MARATHON
AMRITA HEPI’S BEYONCE VS RIHANNA
STREET FIGHTER COMPETITION
HARAMBE MEMORIAL SERVICE
RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY
ESL GAMING
AIR BNB
SAMSUNG

END CREDITS OF EXCELLENT PEOPLE I WORKED WITH ON THIS INSANITY
DANIELLE HARVEY
KARA JENSEN MCKINNON
JESS BOUDVILLE
WALT HART
MACKONIS
ALICE HATTON
& MANY MORE SHOWBIZ WIZS!




Mark