Social Program

Step into a world where reason wrestles with imagination, and beauty collides with madness. Art vs Science: Dissecting Beauty, Engineering Chaos invites you to a night of contrasts, where shadows breathe life into brilliance and precision bleeds into provocation.

In this gothic playground of light and dark, we’ll unravel the tension between the visceral and the rational, the sublime and the analytical. Expect the unexpected: surreal performances, unsettling elegance, and the strange alchemy that emerges when order is dismantled and rebuilt.

Dress to disturb, astonish, or dissect. Will you embody the raw pulse of art, the exacting eye of science, or something that lurks in the fault line between them?

Costume inspiration:

Living Artwork – sculptures, canvases, or dripping paint come to life

Mad Scientist – precision undone by mania

Experimental Hybrid – half beauty, half machine, part mystery

Dark Icons – gothic muses, anatomical curiosities, or twisted archetypes

This is more than a party, it’s an experiment. And you are part of the design.

When: Tuesday 31 August, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: In the Hanging Garden, 112 Murray St
Theme/Attire: “Art vs Science: Dissecting Beauty, Engineering Chaos” dress-up
Cost: Tickets are an additional cost

Delegate ticket $90 (includes alcoholic beverages)
Delegate ticket $70 (includes non-alcoholic beverages only)
Guest ticket $130 (includes alcoholic beverages)
Guest ticket $110 (includes non-alcoholic beverages only)