“We get in touch with things at the point they break down // Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates...”
Fayen d'Evie
10 July → 7 Nov 2021

Hillary Goidell, ‘To Catch a Thing in Flight’, 2020, still from single channel video, 13 min 2 sec, audio description of the film ‘Shape of an Echo’, 2019, by Anna Seymour, Fayen d’Evie and Pippa Samaya (a gestural description of the soundwork ‘Hauntings H M Castlemaine’, 2019, by Andrew Slater (a description of the Old Castlemaine Gaol composed from field recordings). Image courtesy of artists.

We get in touch with things at the point they break down // Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates... is a project instigated Fayen d'Evie and accumulating through a multitude of relationships, collaborations, contributions.

In the words of writer and curator Amelia Wallin:

"...We get in touch… centers the experiences of language and translation. Here, language is understood as gestural and spatial, encompassing dance, signing, touch, and vibration. The multi-authored objects and artworks that form Fayen’s exhibition are co-produced by the circumstances in which they were made, formulating what the artist names “a dustcloud of collaborators and ideas”. Between Fayen and her collaborators there exists a gifting of knowledge, materials, choreographies, texts and experiences."

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This project features Carmen Papalia, Andy Slater, Anna Seymour, Vincent Chan, Trent Walter, Aaron McPeake, Sofia Lo Bianco, Lizzie Boon, Georgina Kleege, Holly Craig, Katie West, Zeno d'Evie, Hazel Pebbles Zagala, Sophie Takách, Bryan Phillips, Jill Sterrett, Luke King, Tommy Carroll, Benjamin Hancock, Adam Leslie, Irina Povolotskaya, Amelia Wallin, Tamsen Hopkinson, Jennifer Justice, Janaleen Wolfe, Warren Taylor, Pippa Samaya, Hillary Goidell, Kate Disher-Quill, Riana Head-Toussaint, Biljana Ciric, Georgia Hutchinson, Khang Chiem, Thea Jones, Andy Butler, Channon Goodwin, Pip Wallis, and more - to be invited before and during and afterwards.

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.