Dust of These Domains (Paddington) UNSW Galleries
(2024)
PERFORMANCE DATES
8 & 15 November, 2025
VENUE
UNSW Galleries & surrounding streets, Paddington
PERFORMERS
Bianca Hester & Astrid Lorange
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL
Dust of these domains script
Promotional poster
Dust of these domains is an ongoing project involving reading and walking, evolving in relation to the specific locations in which it is performed. It involves a script composed of textual fragments and a set of hand-scaled bronze objects bearing impressions of fossilised plant life from the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, when the continent formed part of Gondwana approximately 250 million years ago.
Originally developed from the book Sandstone written by Hester in 2020 for the Lost Rocks series, this textual performance is positioned as a set of lively footnotes that mobilise elements of the Lithic Bodies exhibition – speaking directly to its materiality and to the environmental contexts and geologic temporalities of the places underpinning it.
This new iteration tracks a circuit around Paddington on Gadigal-Bidjigal land, and involves listening, moving, and tactile engagement. The walk pauses at specific locations, where text-fragments written in response to the site are activated. In this work participants are invited to reflect upon social and environmental forces entangled within the current climate crisis.
