Fayen d'Evie's exhibition includes a performance by Naarm/Melbourne based dancer and choreographer Benjamin Hancock. Over two days, Benjamin performs their collaborative work in the exhibition space.
Image: Benjamin Hancock in Fayen d'Evie's Essays in Vibrational Poetics, 2019, The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
ENDNOTE: THE ETHICAL HANDLING OF EMPTY SPACES / PERFORMANCE
Fayen d’Evie’s Endnote: The Ethical Handling of Empty Spaces considers how we might write for a future audience. Recognising that the environmental and social urgencies of our world will echo forward, d’Evie engages in acts of speculative publishing, searching for accessible codes in which to safekeep our stories over time.
Endnote comprises parallel investigations—d’Evie refers to these as essays—exploring the ways messages might be written, performed and sensed. Fragments of stories are embedded in stone, marble, bronze and wood, acknowledging the role of tactility in non-verbal communication. A series of screen prints has its origin in a lexicon of performative gestures developed in collaboration with Deaf dancer and choreographer Anna Seymour, transcribed into typography by typeface designer Vincent Chan.
The function of poetic typographies is explored through an essay written in movement with dancer and choreographer Benjamin Hancock: over two days the repeated performance of a single phrase, taken from text engraved into the granite monolith nearby, plays with the shape of letterforms and grammar, testing the potential of conveying the meaning and emotive content of a message through the body.
A timely prompt to expand our parameters of consideration, the work serves as a reminder that empathy, so important in storytelling, is an action and a process of great potential.
Friday 19 March &
Saturday 20 March
Durational ~ from 10am to 5pm both days
Samstag, Gallery 3
