NARRATIVE SABOTAGE
In dialogue with fine print Issue 35: REVOLT, audiences were invited to an evening of readings, poetry, and critical responses at The Little Machine (Tarntanya Adelaide) from our invited speakers Karim Hassan, Athanasios (Nasi) Lazarou, Tayer Stead, Jayda Wilson and K.A Ren Wyld.
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Voices bearing witness have always been central to protest, serving as powerful tools of resistance, dissent, and rebellion. The history of the voice in protest is rooted in the liberation of the silenced and oppressed. From spoken word to chant, oratory to song, poetry to rap, voices bearing witness speak truth to power.
The defiant voices of Karim Hassan, Athanasios (Nasi) Lazarou, Tayer Stead, Jayda Wilson and K.A Ren Wyld echo the urgency of our time, exposing the narratives that allow power to persist.
NARRATIVE SABOTAGE
Friday 11 July, 6-8pm
The Little Machine
Shop 37, Regent Arcade
5000 Tarntanya Adelaide
Karim Hassan writes in fire on the city walls of a world freezing over with cold control and oppression. In his first year sharing poetry, rage and heartache colour the flames.
Athanasios Lazarou is a philosopher of Architecture whose work explores the relationship between politics and space to interrogate arenas of spatial violence. He is a Lecturer in architectural history and theory at the University of Adelaide and current co-chair of artist run initiative Runway Journal. He regularly curates and contributes to public events across architecture, art and design practice and holds a belief in the power of architecture and art as a force for shaping culture.
Tayer Stead is an emerging visual artist, arts worker and writer located on Kaurna Yarta. They completed their Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2024 from the Adelaide Central School of Art. Their artistic practice often utilises textiles, video, sound, performance and installation to create works that explore the psychological and sociological effects of neoliberal capitalism.
Jayda Wilson is a Gugada and Wirangu woman with Thai ancestry based on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide.With a practice centred in (re)claiming language and translation, Jayda Wilson focuses on the (re)telling, (re)memory and (re)archiving of their Gugada and Wirangu family history often told through poetics, sound and family archives. Wilson’s work has been exhibited locally and nationally in galleries such as Adelaide l Contemporary Experimental (SA), Nexus Arts (SA), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (WA), Linden New Art (VIC) and Ames Yavuz (NSW), with their writing published in The Rocks Remain and Splinter.
K.A Ren Wyld is an author living on the coast south of Adelaide. In addition to two novels and a children’s non-fiction book, Ren has published short stories, narrative non-fiction, poetry, opinion pieces, literature and arts reviews, and more.