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69 Capel Street, West Melbourne VIC 3003

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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

DRIVEWAY: Breaking Lines

Autumn Royal
Lucy Van


29 March 2025–29 March 2025

‘What pangs of hope we share for our exchange to turn to something we desire as a form of alleviation. “Fear of breakdown,” writes Donald Winnicott, “is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.” Holding Winnicott’s insight close—unfinished, fragmentary, poetic—we return to our breaking, again-to-be-broken lines. We repeat the breaking of our turns and forms with the hope we might share our pangs again, respecting the proliferation of cycles—remembering all lives are the lives of the mind and need not ever be beautiful.’

 

An exclusive 2025 iteration of ‘Breaking Lines’, written in a dilating fugue by Autumn Royal and Lucy Van, will be restaged for DRIVEWAY at KINGS.

 

This event is free. Register now via the Eventbrite link here.

 

 

DRIVEWAY is a new performance program at KINGS Artist-Run of monthly public events such as performances, film screenings, poetry readings, and more. In 2025 this initiative is supported by the City of Melbourne.

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  • Autumn Royal creates drama, poetry, and criticism.
  • Lucy Van writes poetry. She is currently translating Li Bai.