the lunatic ball & the majestic tic & pacing…(an excerpt)

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• Fayen d'Evie ›
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• Nelly Kate ›

• Fayen d'Evie (AU) is an artist, publisher, and access advocate, and a co-founder of Access Lab and Library (ALL). A lifetime of fluctuating vision has spurred creative research into blindness as a critical and imaginative position. Her projects are often collaborative, and resist spectatorship by inviting audiences into sensorial readings of artworks and texts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including major projects for the MCA Sydney, SAMSTAG Museum of Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Buxton Contemporary, V.A.C. and the State Museum of Vadim Sidur, Moscow, TarraWarra Biennial, and the Ural Industrial Biennial, Russia. Fayen is the founder of independent imprint 3-ply, which approaches publishing as an experimental site for the creation, dispersal, and archiving of texts. Fayen has provided creative provocations and pedagogical guidance to arts institutions nationally and internationally committed to more inclusive structures and more ambitious curation of disability-led practice.
• Jon Tjhia (AU) is a co-founder of Access Lab and Library (ALL). He is an artist, writer and editor working through literature, radio and podcast, installation, photomedia, music and publishing. His works have most recently been published or exhibited by Office 3553, LOOM, the Powerhouse, Institute of Modern Art, Un, LIMINAL, Pantera Press and Radiophrenia. Other works have appeared at Manchester Literature Festival, the Barbican Centre, City Gallery Wellington, Sydney Opera House and Arts Centre Melbourne; the ABC, BBC and CBC; and written about by the New Yorker, the Wire and the Age. In previous years as the Wheeler Centre’s senior digital editor, he co-founded and published the Australian Audio Guide as well as award-winning projects including digital publication Notes, and podcast The Messenger. He’s a member of the Manus Recording Project Collective.
• Nelly Kate (US) is a studio artist with an expanded practice in sound, expressing its material power through tones, tapes, water, wood, metal, and fiber. Over the past decade, Nelly has experienced fluctuations between late-deafness and hearing. This informs her creative research and practice in slowness, the awkwardness of inclusion, collaboration, and repetition. Her work takes the form of installation, performance, and print. She creates spaces for public imagination and healing, often working with trash, reclaimed, and repurposed materials. Nelly Kate holds an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is currently a creative director at MIT Spatial Sound Lab, working across the unceded lands of Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Wampanoag nations.