Reframing Sydney Fringe

The Sydney Fringe Base Camp reinterprets the spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe within Queens Square and Hyde Park North, making the festival more visible, open, and publicly shared than the currently dispersed Sydney Fringe. By rotating the site’s original rectangular orientation, new cross-street circulation emerges, creating multiple informal corners for performance. An open-access booking system allows anyone to take the stage. Every second weekend, the intersection is closed from midday to evening, forming a temporary civic plaza where smaller stages gather toward a central one. The project softens the authority of surrounding institutional buildings, allowing a localised, Sydney-specific form of Fringe freedom to unfold.