Experimental

  • Fringe Festival

Vantage Points

We weave the future from the margins.

Two images collated into one - On the top is a satellite captured image of a phytoplankton bloom in the Sea of Marmara. The sea is blue and purple with green landmasses and there are swirling white lines of phytoplankton in the sea. On the bottom - is the image of someone playing drums with mallets and a leaf. A well lit score of music sits is in the background.
Past Event

Image Credit: NASA image by Josh Stevens (Earth Observatory), Norman Kuring (NASA Ocean Color group) and Teddy Darling

  • Composed and Produced by: Na'im Fine Fine

  • Featuring: Proud Darug woman Maddison Miller, reformed geologist Ever Hill, poet scientist suffers-no-fools Dr Mohammad Taha, bee biologist Dr Jay Iwasaki.

  • Performed by: Homophonic! ensemble: Kim Tan (flute), Cheryl Durongpisitkul (sax), Lachlan MacLaren (viola), Miranda Hill (double bass), Arwen Johnston (percussion)

This world premiere collapses arts/science boundaries as candid intersectional scientists and musicians serve climate truths and envision co-created futures.
Composer/ecologist & Creative Climate Leadership alumni Na’im Fine Fine layers their exploratory music played by flute, sax, viola, double bass and drums with spoken words by First Nations, trans, POC, queer & neurodiverse enviro/climate scientists.
Western science colonises knowledge and erases multi-systems wisdoms. Vantage Points ruptures this stranglehold, centring marginalised scientists’ insight stemming from their cultural communities and lived experience.
Na’im’s 15 year ecological composition practice digs deep into past, present and future, most recently composing sound for “Zoë” by award-winning A Good Catch Circus.
The iconic Homophonic! ensemble has been queering Narrm’s “classical” music for over a decade.
Experience this vibrant collaboration between musicians, scientists and composer as words and music propel you past climate crisis towards intersectional decolonised futures.


Praise for Zoë – Ed Fringe & Melbourne Fringe 2022
“A breathtaking exploration of the impact of capitalism on the natural world.” ☆☆☆☆☆ - British Theatre Guide