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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.

Subvisible Scuba

Archie Barry
Brian Fuata
Mat Spisbah


08 November 2025–08 November 2025

Subvisible Scuba is a live experimental performance series organised by Archie Barry, that pairs live microscope footage with an improvised set from a local electronic musician. First run as a series of livestream events through Twitch during COVID lockdowns in 2022, Archie invited Nina Buchanan, Daniel Jenatsch, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Megan Alice Clune, Babymode and Alsi to score the unpredictable movements of bacteria, algae and fungi. This Kings DRIVEWAY rendition offers up the experiment in collaboration with performance artists Brian Fuata and Mat Spisbah.

Subvisible Scuba disorientates everyday regimes of sensation by bringing the minutiae of life to the centre stage, leaning towards symbiotic and unpredictable exchanges and sensing the strange wet phenomenon of being a living organism.

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EVENT DETAILS

Saturday 8th November 7pm

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

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  • Archie Barry’s work is autobiographical, somatic, process-led and time-based. Working primarily with video, performance and music composition their artworks reach out towards affective intensity stemming from lived experiences of loss, near death and a politics of trans liberation. Prioritising sensing above making sense, Barry’s practice troubles dominant ideas of selfhood as singular, stable, legible and sequential.
  • Brian Fuata works across performance, film, installation, email and sms text, social media and print. His practice in structured improvisation is the ‘mediation of performance’ drawn from reading select physical, social and relational features of a given site and context to manifest his live and digital events.
  • Mat Spisbah’s work explores sound, code, the internet, and community. With a history rooted in Australia’s music communities, his practice spans experimental performance works, exhibitions, and collaborative projects across Australia and Asia.