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.

For her Melbourne Fringe Radical Access commission, Fayen d’Evie gathered a collaborative of dancers, artists, writers, musicians, and designers to pay homage to the creative innovation and collective ethos of Project Communicator. 

The live performance season (11 - 14 October 2023) 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 2023 via Digital Fringe. The final radio broadcast culminated in a further experiment: a streamed video integrating captioning, embedded below.

Choreographic live performance
Audiodescriptive digital radio performance

~~~~~ “...derelict in uncharted space...” (2023)
Concept by Fayen d’Evie and Benjamin Hancock
Creative team: 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

Live Performance season: 11-14 October 2023
Audiodescriptive Digital Radio season: 25 - 28 October 2023

Chunky Move x Melbourne Fringe Festival, Naarm/Melbourne