Barstool Conversations

Featuring Vic McEwan of the Cad Factory – Candelo Village Festival

Saturday 29 March – 5.30pm @ the Candelo Town Hall Cafe

In this talk, Vic McEwan will explore the evolution of artist led organisation the Cad Factory, which started as an underground warehouse venue in Sydney, hosting monthly gigs and exhibitions, while flying under the radar as local councils cracked down on ‘illegal’ DIY venues. 

After four years and hundreds of musicians passing through its doors, the Cad Factory moved to Narrandera in regional NSW, building a world class recording studio and presenting gigs in remote and abandoned spaces, while gradually shifting towards more experimental explorations of sound in response to the unique environments they found themselves in.

Bio

Vic McEwan is the Artistic Director of multi-disciplinary artist led organisation the Cad Factory, and the co-founder of The CASE Incubator Studio, a national hub for the development of socially engaged arts practice. He is a contemporary artist and musician, exploring social and environmental engagement through diverse art forms. 

Vic’s work has toured nationally and internationally in places as diverse at the Tate Liverpool, National Museum of Australia, multiple regional galleries across the country, and many site-specific locations. He was the first artist accepted into the faculty of Medicine and Health to undertake an arts-practice led PhD, which received both the faculty Outstanding Thesis Award, and the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Australian Work Prize. 

He is a board member of Music NSW, the state’s peak body for Music, a member of the Arts and Health Network NSW/ACT (AHNNA) and between 2023-24 he was the Regional Arts Australia National Fellow. Vic holds the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in Creative Arts, Ecologies and Communities at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, contributing to Professor Liza Lim’s ARC Laureate Fellowship: Multispecies Creativities and Climate Communication.

Presented in partnership with the Candelo Arts Society as part of the Candelo Village Festival