When
Sunday 2 April 2023
On Vibrational Poetics and Art: Fayen d'Evie in Conversation
Presented in partnership with Newcastle Writers Festival.
Fayen d'Evie is an artist, writer and publisher, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now living on unceded Jaara country, Australia. Through her independent imprint 3-ply, Fayen investigates artist-led publishing as an experimental, critical and poetic site for the creation, mutation, dispersal and archiving of texts.
Fayen’s artworks are often collaborative and resist spectatorship by inviting audiences into sensorial readings of artworks. In all of her work, Fayen draws on her experiences of low vision and research into blindness to propose critical and imaginative methods for navigating uncertainty and the precarious; handling the tangible, intangible and concealed; documenting ephemeral encounters through hallucinatory recall; inviting extreme myopic readings of artworks and texts; expanding the perceptual space of publication; and animating intersensory translations and conversations.
Fayen d'Evie will discuss her practice, with a focus on the role of writing, text and publishing with Peter Johnson, Curatorial Lead at Newcastle Art Gallery.
FREE event, no bookings required.
View Newcastle Writers Festival's full 2023 program here.
Image: Artist Fayen d'Evie with her 2021 Jackson Bella Room Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia: Fayen D'EVIE With Cane in Hand, I Dance a Duet for One, for Two, for Three, for Four… 2021 Fibreglass; 2-channel HD video, colour; quadrophonic sound Choreography by Holly Craig and Riana Head-Toussaint Sound recording and composition by Bryan Philips Video edit with Zoe Scoglio Animation by Kenny Smith Rehearsal track by Tommy Carroll Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the Jackson Bella Room 2021 Photography courtesy Jacqui Manning