Following the stars, European explorers found their southern land and subsequently mapped and renamed Indigenous countries. In contrast, the sky remained innocent of a colonial discourse. Above the contested lands of Australia, the night sky continues to offer the potential for universal projections of ancient beliefs, nationhood and personal reflection. In this way, many cultural interpretations of the sky can stand side by side without fear of displacement.
excerpt from exhibition synopsis 'Shared Sky' at NGV ian potter in melbourne at the moment.
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This space is for my thoughts and observations on travel and un-travel.
About the author
I am full of bones and ideas and memories, histories, an ever present now and slow movement forward.
Thankyou for coming in here, my name is Chay-Ya if you didnt know, pleased to meet you.
Current location
terra australis incognita
Forms I am interested in
Improvised movement, public installations and interventions, mark making, mapping, cartography, spoken word, natural poetics, inherent poetry, the space from which language begins, form, sound, voice, urge, intuit, physicality, the unspoken, the knowing, the tactile and visual, braille, sign language, gesticulation
Noise and silence. movement and stillness. inbetweens, transitions and in-place-transit.
Cooking, growing, harvesting, collecting, feasting, dinner parties in the middle of the street or a field or a forest, fermentation, propagation, slow cooking in ceramic pots, biodynamics, permaculture, nutrition, wholefoods, botanical illustration, bookbinding, printing and reproduction, periodicals, chapbooks, artists markets, writers festivals, literature, libraries, books as houses for ideas and observations, simplicity, engaged process, documentation, dialogue, light, sound.
Noise and silence. movement and stillness. inbetweens, transitions and in-place-transit.
Cooking, growing, harvesting, collecting, feasting, dinner parties in the middle of the street or a field or a forest, fermentation, propagation, slow cooking in ceramic pots, biodynamics, permaculture, nutrition, wholefoods, botanical illustration, bookbinding, printing and reproduction, periodicals, chapbooks, artists markets, writers festivals, literature, libraries, books as houses for ideas and observations, simplicity, engaged process, documentation, dialogue, light, sound.
Stillness in Flight Archives
Chay-Ya in other spaces
possible ways through time
its all open again. the future exists.
currently doing regular classes in
skinner release technique, butoh and body mind centering.
am reading books about physiology, improvisation and of course poetry.
Nuances and extremes of the human voice weekend workshop at the Body Voice Centre in Footscray, 27-29 November.
currently doing regular classes in
skinner release technique, butoh and body mind centering.
am reading books about physiology, improvisation and of course poetry.
100ono/100ONO one night only exhibition of photographs, prints, paintings and performance with Antonia Green.
Monday 23rd November 6-9pm at Per Square Metre Gallery in Collingwood.
Nuances and extremes of the human voice weekend workshop at the Body Voice Centre in Footscray, 27-29 November.
Projects and festivals that Im excited about right now
"Sanctuary"
This is an accompanying part of an exhibition I did in 2006 at the Workshop in Melbourne.
"A perfect stillness where everything moves," exhibition catalogue from show in 2007 at Bus Gallery. limited edition of 200, hand numbered and signed, 36 pages.(To see a bigger preview click on the small one above). Currently stocked in Melbourne at Sticky, Brunswick Bound, Lupa and I Dream A Highway.
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