On Legibility
On Legibility is an event featuring new speech-based performances by Brian Fuata, Rosie Isaac, and Natasha Tontey. Borrowing the form of an academic symposium while upending its function, the event presents these new works alongside a screening of Adrian Piper’s Funk Lessons, 1983, and a paper by Bader Rizk. Together, the contributors consider how systems of knowledge and power become settled and recede from view, asking: can we reverse this mechanism to render these same systems legible instead?
Drawing on ritual and cosmological thinking, and on pre-linguistic, decolonial, material, and embodied knowledges, the artists and thinkers renegotiate established narratives, and the very terms of what we deem knowable. The new works refine speech-based performance as a method for critiquing language and power, turning words designed for easy consumption into something slippery and recalcitrant.
On Legibility is presented with support from Monash Art, Design and Architecture and Curatorial Practice, Monash University.
Schedule
12:00 PM - Welcome and choral reading, led by Brooke Babington
12:30 PM - Rosie Isaac, Untitled, 2026
1:00 PM - Brian Fuata, Untitled, 2026
1:30 PM - Break
2:30 PM - Screening Adrian Piper, Funk Lessons, 1983
3:00 PM - Bader Rizk, "Blast to Blast", 2026
3:30 PM - Natasha Tontey, 4:4:4:4 The Universe Has No Obligation to Answer, 2026
4:00 PM - Closing drinks (courtyard adjacent to G1.04)
Access Information
Public Transport & Parking
Accessible Parking
Building G is an accessible building. The event will take place in a seated lecture theatre with a capacity of 108 people. Performances will include artificial lighting, dimmed at times, and amplified sound. Sound levels will range from moderate to occasionally loud. Audience members are welcome to attend all or part of the program, and to enter and exit as needed. Where possible, please come and go between performances to minimise disruption. A quieter foyer with seating is available outside the lecture theatre.
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 an event featuring new speech-based performances by Brian Fuata, Rosie Isaac, and Natasha Tontey. Borrowing the form of an academic symposium while upending its function, the event presents these new works alongside a screening of Adrian Piper’s Funk Lessons, 1983, and a paper by Bader Rizk. Together, the contributors consider how systems of knowledge and power become settled and recede from view, asking: can we reverse this mechanism to render these same systems legible instead?
Drawing on ritual and cosmological thinking, and on pre-linguistic, decolonial, material, and embodied knowledges, the artists and thinkers renegotiate established narratives, and the very terms of what we deem knowable. The new works refine speech-based performance as a method for critiquing language and power, turning words designed for easy consumption into something slippery and recalcitrant.
On Legibility is presented with support from Monash Art, Design and Architecture and Curatorial Practice, Monash University.
Schedule
12:00 PM - Welcome and choral reading, led by Brooke Babington
12:30 PM - Rosie Isaac, Untitled, 2026
1:00 PM - Brian Fuata, Untitled, 2026
1:30 PM - Break
2:30 PM - Screening Adrian Piper, Funk Lessons, 1983
3:00 PM - Bader Rizk, "Blast to Blast", 2026
3:30 PM - Natasha Tontey, 4:4:4:4 The Universe Has No Obligation to Answer, 2026
4:00 PM - Closing drinks (courtyard adjacent to G1.04)
Access Information
Public Transport & Parking
Accessible Parking
Building G is an accessible building. The event will take place in a seated lecture theatre with a capacity of 108 people. Performances will include artificial lighting, dimmed at times, and amplified sound. Sound levels will range from moderate to occasionally loud. Audience members are welcome to attend all or part of the program, and to enter and exit as needed. Where possible, please come and go between performances to minimise disruption. A quieter foyer with seating is available outside the lecture theatre.