Image: Serana Hunt-Hughes
The Museum Incognita revisits neglected, concealed, or obscured histories, activates embodied readings, and archives ephemeral artworks and practices. Founded on a custodial ethic, the infrastructure enfolds performative encounters and a nomadic sculptural architecture, with gathering vessels, botanical furnishings, auditory texts, and tactile mnemonics for oral storytelling.
The Museum Incognita is a collaborative project of Katie West and Fayen d'Evie.
Katie West belongs to the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara tablelands in Western Australia. The process and notion of naturally dyeing fabric underpin her practice – the rhythm of walking, gathering, bundling, boiling up water and infusing materials with plant matter. Katie creates objects, installations and happenings, that invite attention to the ways we weave our stories, places, histories and futures.
www.katiewularniwest.com
Fayen d'Evie was born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa, and is now based in the bushlands of Jaara country. Within her artistic and curatorial practice, Fayen advocates the radical potential of blindness for navigating intersensory conversations, the tangible and intangible, hallucination, uncertainty, the precarious, and the invisible. Fayen is the founder of 3-ply, which approaches artist-led publishing as an experimental, critical, and poetic site for the creation, mutation, dispersal, and archiving of texts.
www.fayendevie.com