MEETING [THE] TEXT HALFWAY

EXEG[TH]ESIS DOCUMENTATION
SHOW: All PAST TEXT OBJECT TONGUES TOWERS SWEAT RETRIBUTION QUEER NEXT
BOTANICALS
DARWIN FESTIVAL//2020Carefully choreographed movements map out the porous embodiments of human and more-than-human kind. Head, shoulders, knees, toes, petal, sepal, receptacle, stamen – bodily boundaries, skins and textures are traded, shaped and switched in a curious dance of multi-species exchange from trans-disciplinary artist Matthew van Roden. Curator Britt Guy takes this skin-dance to everyday sites across Darwin in a series of surprising projections where surface, skin, boundary and texture become sites for re-entanglement between the urban and natural world.

FINGERSPITZENGEFÜHL
WATER TOWER SERIES//NT TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL//26.08.2021Fingerspitzengefühl is a German word literally meaning “finger tips feelings”. It is used to describe a certain situational awareness or intuition, like the ability to read a room. It also describes a certain intricate sensitivity to the tools of one’s trade; knowing through small vibrations and other tactile feedback. This work explores sensitivity and touch, searching for a more haptic understanding of surface, texture and text.

©2025I acknowledge The Larrakia People who are the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of this land and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty of Country was never ceded.