They make rubbish look beautiful. They commandeer the NGVA’s commentary of works and tell an unofficial story of the permanent collection. They run tours of Brunswick to affect that holiday feeling. And they’ll sit in the subway, take whatever you give them (old tickets, a business card, a bookmark) and stitch it all together to make a two-week diary of the city. They’re the Next Wave of next big things, and they’re all subjects of Slow apparently…

This year's theme, Closer Together, strings together two-weeks'-worth of shows exploring: 'closeness and its conflicted nature - as a catalyst for connectedness, community and exchange, but also of claustrophobia, confrontation and invasion.'

May 15-31