“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate...”
Fayen d'Evie
6 Mar → 2 Apr 2015
Through fictional texts and hybrid paintings, this exhibition reflects on visual assumptions of value in the visual arts and other cultural manifestations that depend intrinsically on visual appearance. This is the first public outcome of a new body of work developed with blind collaborators, considering epistemological and aesthetic opportunities from this perspective.
Readings:
March 5 2015, 6:30pm (Exhibition Opening)
The Museum of Holograms and O-
by Fayen d’Evie and Janaleen Wolfe
March 21 2015, 2pm
Fayen d’Evie will perform Double or Nothin’ alongside Ben Phillips.
Following the performance Fayen and Ben will participate in a discussion with Tamsen Hopkinson, West Space’s Education and Public Programs Officer.
2:00pm
Performance
Double or Nothin’
By Fayen d’Evie and Ben Phillips
2:30pm
In ADDITION: Fayen d’Evie, Ben Phillips and Tamsen Hopkinson will continue an ongoing conversation about Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate… reflecting on visual assumptions of value in the visual arts and other cultural manifestations that depend intrinsically on visual appearance.
Supported by Gertrude Contemporary studio residency programme.
Fayen d'Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Fayen advocates blindness as a critical position that radically agitates ocularnormative biases, offering methods for navigating intersensory conversations, the tangible and intangible, hallucination, uncertainty, the precarious, the invisible, and the concealed. With artist Katie West, Fayen co-founded the Museum Incognita, which activates collective readings of neglected and obscured histories.