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We are Jon Tjhia and Fayen d’Evie. We’re both artists who sometimes collaborate with each other. We’re working with the team at Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre to produce an exhibition that will open in March. The exhibition responds to a popular 1991 community artwork called The Maze. Many, many people contributed to making it.

Together, the artists and participants created a papier mâché installation that was about their personal and collective search for how to live in a world of conflict and calamity. They shared their understandings of difference, visions of utopia, daydreams, nightmares, and quotes or ‘words to live by’ that might guide their path.

As we revisit The Maze, we are interested in the conditions of our shared world today, and our different ways through it.

With our many differences in tow, we are increasingly seeking not only meaning but agency. Who’s responsible? Who has power? What forces are determining the world not only as we understand or envision it, but as we inherit and experience it? And what, then, can we build? How will we work together? What’s possible, and what’s desirable?' 


Could you share your thoughts or ideas?

We would love to hear from you!

You can record using any suitable app on your phone (Voice Memos for iOS, Voice Recorder for Android, etc). You could also use your computer if you know how.

Record what you want to say, save it, and then share it with us using the red button below. (When you tap or click it, it’ll ask you which file you want to share with us.)






What should I record?

Here are some questions or prompts you might like to respond to:

  1. Can you think of a saying, a lyric, a sentence or a meme that expresses something important, for you, about how to deal with struggle, hurt or conflict?

    What does it mean and why does it feel relevant to your life? (It could be in a language that’s not English)


  2. What is your idea of utopia? How about dystopia?

    Tell us about what stands between where we are now – and either utopia or dystopia becoming reality.


  3. Are there any universal truths? What do you think they are, or could be?






Another round …

If you ‘re not shy, we’d like to hear a little more (this is very much optional).

We’ve been recording people’s voices together to compose a collective ‘song’ for the exhibition. You can be any kind of singer or voice!

If you feel comfortable, we’d like to invite you to record yourself:

  • Holding a high note for as long as you can
  • Holding a low note for as long as you can
  • Singing – in whatever style or voice you like – any of your responses to the questions above (short phrases are better)
  • Saying ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘maybe’ in different pitches

Choose any or all of the above, as you like! Skip the ones you don’t want to do!

Thank you – we really appreciate it.




Important information

Your recording may be used as part of the exhibition, or in some materials promoting it. Any use will be edited for length and context, but will preserve your intended meaning as we understand it. If you would prefer for your voice to be changed or obscured, please let us know in the recording.

You can contact us with any questions you may have, or withdraw your consent for using your recording, by contacting us at all@accesslab.world.