Fayen d'Evie, Luke Duncan King, Benjamin Baker and Leila Doneo Baptist
“Work in Progress, Work in Lockdown”
The following two videos document West Space community members Benjamin Baker and Leila Doneo, Luke King and Fayen d'Evie continuing to practice a collaborative performance from home in lockdown.
While the exhibition is open, these two phrases will be signed by West Space staff members to those who visit the exhibition.
Benjamin Baker, Leila Doneo, Luke King, Fayen d’Evie
Work in Progress, Work in Lockdown: Interdependence (2021)
In preparation for resuming the collaborative performance:
Carmen Papalia, Fayen d’Evie and Luke King
Interdependence is Central to the Radical Restructuring of Power (2021)
Spoken and signed text.
A contribution to the exhibition:
We get in touch with things at the point they break down //
Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates...
Benjamin Baker, Leila Doneo, Luke King, Fayen d’Evie
Work in Progress, Work in Lockdown: Shared Action (2021)
In preparation for resuming the collaborative performance:
Fayen d’Evie and Luke King
Shared Action (2021)
Spoken and signed text.
A contribution to the exhibition:
We get in touch with things at the point they break down //
Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates...
Fayen d'Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Fayen advocates blindness as a critical position that radically agitates ocularnormative biases, offering methods for navigating intersensory conversations, the tangible and intangible, hallucination, uncertainty, the precarious, the invisible, and the concealed. With artist Katie West, Fayen co-founded the Museum Incognita, which activates collective readings of neglected and obscured histories.
Luke Duncan King is a visual artist, whose practice is grounded in printmaking & drawing, but extends into video, performance and other artforms. He has an interest in collaboration, and has performed or co-created works with choreographers, dancers, performers, filmmakers and other visual artists, in public and private museums and galleries. Luke is a co-founder with Geoff Riding of Magic Hands, which teaches Deaf-led classes in beginner and intermediate Auslan.
Benjamin Baker is a Naarm/Melbourne based artist, working across painting and installation. Benjamin began at West Space as a volunteer in 2016, before becoming a member of staff in 2020. As an active member of the arts community, they also sit on the steering committee of Trocadero Projects.
Leila Doneo Baptist is an undisciplined artist with Asian-Middle Eastern-Australian ancestry, who grew up on Djugun-Yawuru land in Western Australia. Their work is informed by dispersed mixed-race histories with a focus on creative practice as an opportunity for relational connection, decolonial healing and what it means to be speaking from a settler-immigrant positionality on stolen land. Leila currently lives and works in Naarm-Melbourne.