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 with 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.

Microfictions marks Hylozoic/Desires' much-anticipated Australia premiere

Each 4-hour session is performed live by:

Tyrone Earl Lraé Robinson
Izzy Leclezio
Chandler Abrahams
Estelle Brown