On Legibility
On Legibility is a 'symposium' of speech-based performances presenting three newly commissioned art works by Brian Fuata, Rosie Isaac, and Natasha Tontey that seek to render power legible. Borrowing the name of an academic format, while upending its function, these works consider how systems of knowledge become settled and sustain power, and how those systems might be rearticulated under pressure.
Drawing on ritual and cosmological thinking, and on pre-linguistic, decolonial, material and embodied knowledges, the invited artists renegotiate established narratives, and the very terms of what we deem knowable. Each plays host differently to an embodied, affective update on traditional critiques of language, meaning-making and power, turning words designed for easy consumption into something slippery and recalcitrant.
On Legibility is curated by Brooke Babington as part of her PhD research in MADA Fine Art (Curatorial Practice). Presented with support from Monash Fine Art.
Event Details
- Date:
- 20 November 2026 at 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- Venue:
- G1.04 Lecture Theatre, Monash Caulfield campus
- Cost:
- Free
- Categories:
- Fine Art; Graduate Research
Description
On Legibility is a 'symposium' of speech-based performances presenting three newly commissioned art works by Brian Fuata, Rosie Isaac, and Natasha Tontey that seek to render power legible. Borrowing the name of an academic format, while upending its function, these works consider how systems of knowledge become settled and sustain power, and how those systems might be rearticulated under pressure.
Drawing on ritual and cosmological thinking, and on pre-linguistic, decolonial, material and embodied knowledges, the invited artists renegotiate established narratives, and the very terms of what we deem knowable. Each plays host differently to an embodied, affective update on traditional critiques of language, meaning-making and power, turning words designed for easy consumption into something slippery and recalcitrant.
On Legibility is curated by Brooke Babington as part of her PhD research in MADA Fine Art (Curatorial Practice). Presented with support from Monash Fine Art.