A fascinating exhibition of photographs and objects inspired by Steven Sebring's time with Patti Smith during the filming of their extraordinary documentary Dream of Life.

ENGLAND is about a different kind of empire - one of transmigrations and transplantations. It's the story of one thing placed inside another: a heart inside another person's body, a culture inside another country's culture, theatre inside a gallery, a character inside an actor, a play inside its audience.

21:100:100 features 100 works by 100 sound artists produced in the 21st century. This exhibition is the first significant survey in Melbourne to explore and chronicle the extraordinary developments that have occurred in contemporary sound art.

Sound artist Alex Stahl joins forces with Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, the dynamic duo behind last year's Musicircus, to create an engagement with the soundworld of the common myna. Beyond the steel and stone across the river, listeners are invited to explore other bridges: mapping connections between free speech and free music, human and avian migrations, performer and audience, natural and constructed environments.

A remarkable exhibition from this major New Zealand artist that explores ideas about photography and the way it is viewed.

Crooked Rib has been collaborating artistically since late 2007. From street art to painting, stencilling to digital technologies, Crooked Rib works with artist Amanda King to express what it means to be young, Muslim and living in Melbourne through this remarkable exhibition of their new works.

From Jane Birkin to Cat Power, David Byrne to Antony of Antony and the Johnsons, Italian photographer Rita Antonioli has captured a swath of iconic figures and alt heroes. This exhibition presents a selection of these and more from Antonioli's vast catalogue.

Rather than commemorating a particular hero or an important historical event, these animated monuments turn instead to the people who live in, work in and come to explore Melbourne: the people that bring the city to life.

Lynette Wallworth returns to Melbourne Festival with the Australian debut of her new work. An intimate interactive installation that responds to touch, Evolution of Fearlessness is a sequel to Wallworth's Unheard Voices: Invisible by Night. Together the two works deal with loss and its aftermath, survival and, beyond that, hope and strength.

Originally developed in 2006, Exercises in Happiness is a big-hearted performance installation involving audiences in activities designed around the possibility of happiness.

Matthew Sleeth's use of serial photographic images seeks to bring order to the chaos around us. Pattern Recognition features a photographic series drawn from contemporary life, including abandoned umbrellas, fire extinguishers, security cameras and Ground Zero. In the process of making these images, Sleeth draws attention to the history of photography's relationship to collecting, cataloguing and obsession.

A selection of Smith's beautiful, evocative photographic work drawn from pieces created between 1967 and 2007 is enhanced by an installation work created especially for Melbourne Festival.

The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open For Inspection is staged as an open inspection. Using photography, film, video and design, this is an extraordinary theatre and installation work that plays with Australian notions of family and suburbia.

Melbourne International Arts Festival presents Eve Sussman's acclaimed video-musical, The Rape of the Sabine Women. Filmed with a cast of hundreds, and shot on location in Athens and Hydra, Greece, and in Berlin, Germany, this improvised dramatisation pits mid-twentieth century ideals against the eternal themes of power, longing, and desire.