Step into an unfurling cosmos of sound, movement and poetry in Microfictions — a major new commission by internationally acclaimed duo Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), in collaboration between Vessel Contemporary and Fremantle Biennale. Occupying Fremantle’s iconic Naval Store, this live performance installation is a slowly shifting meditation on land, love and deep time.
Audiences are invited to recline in suspended hammocks — floating, as if in the ocean — while a sand mandala in the form of a topographical map morphs slowly beneath them. Charting a course from the ancient supercontinent Pangea to the speculative future of Pangea Ultima, performers trace the outlines of the evolving continents with materials native and invasive — white sand, crushed limestone, salt, even flecks of gold, camel hair and cuttlefish— shaping and reshaping borders in an eternal drama of impermanence.
Tapping into planetary turbulence, Microfictions is a poetic and sonic meditation on weight — what anchors us — and lightness — what defies gravity and how we drift. Accompanied by a score for upright bass, electric harp and percussion, recalling the tectonic rhythms and rumbles of the Earth, Microfictions traverses oceans, continents and hemispheres imagining futures of intermingling cultures and languages, ecological entanglements and human-nonhuman dependencies. This is a powerful call to the intimacy of deep memory and land both as displacement and reconciliation.
In conjunction with the opening event Current Gallery will hold an opening event for Saar Amptmeijer's can you hear me? in the substation. can you hear me is a sculptural installation and deep-sea opera. The work explores the internet’s physical and power-laden infrastructure – one that runs on the bottom of the ocean floor as a huge network of submarine tubes and cables, following currents of an embodied and obfuscated history.
There will be a paid bar at the opening.
Vessel is located at the Naval Store:
141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup.
When possible, we encourage you to catch public transport, there is a bus stop located right out the front on Queen Victoria St (Stop ID: 10280).
Vehicle parking is located on Tuckfield St, and Beach St.
The Naval Store is fully accessible, there are two ACROD parking bays located on Tuckfield St, there is a ramp access from this parking to our gallery entrance on Canning Hwy.
