GEOFADE

“Time ISN’T REAL. ENJOY YOURSELF.” GAUDMOTHER

Scale shifting with heartbeats, a mountain, a mouse - post-OK Glacier - Impact patterns (remnant scars in Lysterfield Quarry) - Time derives from 'tide' or tidiz' (time to smash the master clock) - cogs, fossils, coral, trees - spiral time in the company of mountains - the quarry is a wound through which to enter deep time (post-quarry time) is that basalt caught in your teeth?

Established in the temporal slippage of the 2020 lockdowns in Narrm, Australia, GEOFADE is an ongoing research collaboration between Devika Bilimoria and Luna Mrozik Gawler, centred on queer(y)ing time. GEOFADE works alongside queer earthscapes and time scales beyond the human to retune to the slow pace of planetary histories and futures, through labs, workshops, installations and extended site relationships.

In this slow, multi-facted work, GEOFADE foregrounds emergent and responsive methods of experimentation, drawing together Transdiciplinary art with natural science to challenge the temporal myths that fuel accelerated anthropogenic destruction.

GEOFADE has so far been supported; in its river explorations by the Abbotsford Convent through the Pivot residency in 2020, in its volcanic questions into geo-logics by the Red Barn Farm residency, and in its quest for Time Rehabilitation in the Test Sites program run by Testing grounds and City of Melbourne during 2021. GEOFADE has an ongoing geomorphic engagement at the Quarry in Beech Forest, currently under the stewardship of These are the Projects we do Together.

The first public sharing of this research occurred at 2022 workshop A Temporal Tuning for Tender Times as a part of the Green Bee program for Dancehouse, Melbourne. You can see more on the workshop here.

GEOFADE is currently preparing several public offerings for 2023 and is available for partnerships, workshops or commissions.