• Winner of the Melbourne Fringe Award for Innovation in Dance

• Winner of the Melbourne Fringe Award for Sound and Technical Excellence

Concept by: Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock

Created by: Fayen d’Evie, Benjamin Hancock, Rebecca Bracewell, Luke D. King, Georgina Kleege, Nelly Kate, Andy Slater, Lloyd Mst, Jon Tjhia, Alex Craig, Anastasia La Fey, Aaron McPeake, Ashley Buchanan, Marco Cher-Gibard, Anna Seymour, Sheereen Perrin, George Thomas, Lorena Zapiain, and Sheri Wells-Jensen, in association with Antony Hamilton, Vitae Veritas, Bryan Phillips, Madeleine Flynn and Charles Gushue.

Commissioned by: Chunky Move and Melbourne Fringe

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In 1974, an amateur Star Trek fan club in San Francisco launched Project Communicator, a non-profit initiative to bring the wonderment of Star Trek to blind audiences, through descriptive radio plays. For their pilot, they chose the episode ‘Is There In Truth No Beauty’, which guest starred a blind telepath character. Despite being endorsed by the Star Trek cast, and narrated by Trek actor James Doohan, Paramount perceived the project as piracy. The pilot was never released, and Project Communicator was abandoned.

In this world premiere season, a collaborative of dancers, artists, writers, musicians, and designers paid homage to the creative innovation and collective ethos of Project Communicator. The live performance season (11 - 14 October) experimented with inter-sensorial translations, beyond the boundaries of perceptual norms, and the boundaries of space-time. Documentation of the full performance is available here.

The live performance season was adapted into an audio described radio performance season, digitally broadcast 25 – 28 October via Digital Fringe. The final radio broadcast culminated in a further experiment: a streamed video integrating captioning, available here.

Fayen d’Evie with collaborators: Jennifer Justice, Benjamin Hancock, Trent Walter, Alex Craig, Andy Slater, Pippa Samaya, Anna Seymour, Hillary Goidell, Aaron McPeake, Lloyd Mst, Bryan Phillips, Vincent Chan.

Deakin University Art Gallery Naarm/Melburne, 10 July–11 August 2023

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Fayen d’Evie with Holly Craig, Riana Head-Toussaint, Bryan Phillips, Zoe Scoglio, Kenny Smith, and Tommy Carroll.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Feb 2022 - October 2023

Read about With Cane in Hand… on the MCA Artist Commission page

‘Modes of Touch’

Georgina Kleege, Fayen d’Evie, Katie West. Co-produced by Carmen Papalia and Whitney Mashburn.

In Plain Sight, Wellcome Collection, London20 October 2022 - 12 February 2023

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Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock

Govett Brewster, Ngāmotu/New Plymouth, Aotearoa NZ, 20 Aug - 13 Nov 2022

Performance: 19 October 2022

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Fayen d'Evie, with collaborators, contributors, and Westspace community: Carmen Papalia, Andy Slater, Anna Seymour, Vincent Chan, Trent Walter, Aaron McPeake, Sofia Lo Bianco, Lizzie Boon, Georgina Kleege, Holly Craig, Katie West, Zeno d'Evie, Hazel Pebbles Zagala, Sophie Takách, Bryan Phillips, Harriet Jones, Justin Cantrell, Jill Sterrett, Luke King, Tommy Carroll, Benjamin Hancock, Janice Florence, Benjamin Baker, Leila Doneo, Adam Leslie, Irina Povolotskaya, Amelia Wallin, Tamsen Hopkinson, Jennifer Justice, Janaleen Wolfe, Warren Taylor, Pippa Samaya, Hillary Goidell, Kate Disher-Quill, Riana Head-Toussaint, Biljana Ciric, Georgia Hutchinson, Khang Chiem, Thea Jones, Andy Butler, Channon Goodwin, Pip Wallis, Justin Balmain and more to be invited during and afterwards. 

West Space, Naarm/Melbourne, 10 Jul - 7 Nov 2021

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Read, listen to, or watch digital elements of the exhibition at West Space Offsite