Exhalation
Fremantle Biennale
13 Nov- 30 November 2025
Whalers Tunnel, Fremantle, Australia.
Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Vuth Lyno and Pal Panha.
Open. Huge thanks to the team @wilkik@tom___muller and Eli Smith who invited and supported us. Special thanks to sound team of @helensvoboda_music@_wintagram_@pattelfer@thinbilly@robertwilldesign We lean into the wind.
Exhalation turns the Whalers Tunnel into a living organism – one that breathes, listens and shifts with the wind. Created by Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey (Australia) and Vuth Lyno with Pal Panha (Cambodia), this immersive sound and sculpture installation is a quiet act of listening, care and renewal.
The work draws on a ritual practiced in Cambodia and across Southeast Asia, where Buddhist monks wrap orange cloth around trees in gestures of protection and care. Here, thousands of golden paper forms — echoing the form of the Kodjeningara flower from WA’s South West — flutter across the tunnel like flickers of light on the wind.
Sound enters on the breeze. Kinetic speakers respond to shifting wind currents, turning the tunnel into a space where sound is alive. The wind plays the tunnel like an instrument, and the installation shifts moment by moment, hour to hour.
This is a site heavy with histories: carved stone, prison walls, whaling ports. Exhalation doesn’t deny that weight — it leans into it, offering a counter gesture of tenderness and attention. It invites you to walk through, pause, sit, stay. To feel the tunnel differently.
We’re honoured to receive Outstanding Work (Contemporary & Experimental Performance) at the 43rd Green Room Awards for Diagrammatica.
This project only existed because of the extraordinary people who made the leap of faith with us.
Deep thanks to the team:
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey, Rhian Hinkley, Chantal Marks, Andrew Treloar, Katie Sfetkidis, Torie Nimmervoll, Charlie Lee, Michaela Coventry, Anna Schoo, Martyn Coutts, Dan Milne & Liz Cox, Robert Larson, Mick Byrne, Tom McKeand, Ivy Dwyer-Hinkley, Olie Kennedy, Takeshi Kondo
A huge thank you to our guest musicians for bringing the system to life through sound:
Golden Sands, Moses Carr & Ohmi, Nadav Rayman, Cat Hope, Kaylie Melville, Mindy Meng Wang, JP Shilo, Helen Svoboda, Aaron Wyatt, Flora Carbo & Winter McQuinn, Genevieve Lacey & Marshall McGuire
Big shout out to Fed Square and RISING for their remarkable support in making a logistically complex project happen.
And to everyone who stepped inside - watching, listening, participating, shifting the work moment by moment - you were part of this.
Very grateful for the recognition, and for the many hands and minds that made this possible. @fed.square@rising.melbourne@cityofmelbourne@mflynnth@rhianhinkley@t_nimm@andrewtreloar@chhrrr_lee@michaelacoventry@_annaschoo_@takeshi_kondo_mot@studiomono.co@goldensandsmusic@mosesesom@nadavraymantrio@cathope@kayliemelville@mindy_mengwang@jp_shilo@helensvoboda_music@psiborg112@floracarbo@_wintagram_@harpoboy
【参加作家紹介／Artist Introduction】
マデライン・フリン＋ティム・ハンフリー（Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey）
オーストラリア生まれ、在住。聴覚を軸に予期せぬ体験を生み出すアーティスト・デュオ。
人間と人間以外の存在（自然や環境）における「聴くこと」への関心を起点に、参加型プロジェクトを通して制作を行う。近年は暗闇の音響や、人類の未来に関わる危機、創作が生態学的・文化的に及ぼす影響を探究し、メルボルンを拠点に活動している。
Born in Australia and currently based there. An artist duo that generates unexpected experiences through sound as a primary medium.Starting from an interest in “listening” as it relates to both human and more-than-human entities—such as nature and the environment—they develop works through participatory projects. In recent years, they have explored sound in darkness, crises concerning the future of humanity, and the ecological and cultural impacts of creative practice, working primarily from Melbourne.
出生于澳大利亚，现居当地。以“听觉”为核心媒介，创造出超出预期体验的艺术家双人组合。以人类与非人类存在（如自然与环境）之间“倾听”的关系为出发点，通过参与式项目展开创作。近年来，围绕黑暗中的声音、人类未来所面临的危机，以及创作在生态与文化层面产生的影响等议题展开探究，并以墨尔本为活动据点。
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下呂Art Discovery 2026／Gero Art Discovery 2026
森と温泉、街道と廃校がつくる、日本最深部の国際芸術祭。
会期：2026年9月11日（金）-11月8日（日）※祝日を除く火曜日休み
会場：岐阜県下呂市内各所
Dates：September 11ーNovember 8,2026 ＊Closed on Tuesdays,except public holidays
Venue：Gero City,Gifu Prefecture,Japan
https://gero-art-discovery.jp/
#下呂ArtDiscovery2026 #GeroArtDiscovery2026 #岐阜県 #下呂市 #下呂温泉
It's been a beautiful month in the rehearsal room in Nipaluna/Hobart with Tim Spooner, Sam Routledge and the Terrapin team working on a new show called Matter Era. The provocation to make a 70 minute score without a screen has been a challenge to habits, and opened my making up, working through frustrations to something new. Very grateful for these generous, insightful artists. Matter Era premieres in the UK at the Battersea Arts Centre in May, with touring to follow.
Walking through @fremantlebiennale felt less like «viewing art» and more like stumbling into a living conversation between science, nature and what it means to find sanctuary in a city.
Where The Light Rests by @kumobako stopped us cold - it’s not just pretty light effects, it’s a meditation on three frequencies that move through everything: light waves, sound waves, brain waves. Standing inside it, you forget where the installation ends and your own thoughts begin. That kind of quiet, almost hypnotic feeling carried through most of the Biennale.
Pool of Content by @baelawler is the one everyone’s talking about - and for good reason. They took WA’s pink salt lakes, brought them inside Old Customs House, and now there’s this surreal body of water slowly shifting and crystallising as salt naturally grows throughout the festival. It’s equal parts gorgeous and unsettling. The artists designed it almost like a laboratory experiment on nature and history colliding.
Sound was everywhere - and I mean everywhere. Exhalation by Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Vuth Lyno and Pal Panha in the Whalers Tunnel was something I wasn’t expecting to hit so hard. Immersive, layered, the kind of soundscape that makes you feel like you’re inside something alive.
But what really got to us was how the whole thing made us think differently about place and belonging. Microfictions by Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) had performers reshaping a sand mandala - constantly redrawing borders between continents, using salt and sand to map from ancient Pangea to imagined futures.
And Sanctuary City kept us sitting there thinking about what «home» actually means - not as a fixed thing, but as something each person builds differently. Your borders aren’t our borders. Your sanctuary isn’t my sanctuary. The Biennale seemed to understand that.
The Biennale seemed to understand that.
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위트니스 스탠드 서울: 소리의 기념비
𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗼𝘂𝗹 - 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
매들린 플린, 팀 험프리, 김조호, 임현진, 조은희
Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Joho Kim, Jin Yim, and Eunhee Cho
도시의 장소에 설치되는 사운드 기반 공연 프로젝트이다. 도심 속 특정 장소를 무대 삼아 그곳을 새롭게 바라보게 만드는 작업으로 음악뿐만 아니라 인터뷰, 주변 환경의 사운드스케이프, 기록되지 않던 이야기들이 어우러져 일상의 풍경 속 ‘소리로 만든 기념비’가 실시간으로 세워진다. 관객과 퍼포머는 이러한 장소들을 직접적이고 구체적인 관계 속에서 마주하게 되며, 이는 도심 속 삶과 기억을 새롭게 바라보게 한다. 소리를 듣기위해 자리에 모인 관객들은 과정의 목격자이자 기념비의 일부가 된다.
Witness Stand is a sound installation for a city, situated on a distinctive urban site at Naksan Park. The show arises from our desire to create a form that can encompass different points of view, held within a tolerant and robust musical framework. With multiple perspectives across the city of Seoul, ‘a sonic monument’ is created, live and recorded, composed not only of music, but also of interviews, environmental sounds, and untold stories.
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𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗼𝘂𝗹: 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 — Created by @mflynnth@johokim@myunzee@eunhee_21c / Performed with @kumheeleecello@a_jungah / Special Thanks to Bohyun Lee, Jaewook Shin / Supported by Australian Embassy in Korea, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Bureau of Garden and City Parks and Leisure Division / Presented by @spaf_in_seoul
𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 서울국제공연예술제
𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣
𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝙎𝙋𝘼𝙁_Witness Stand Seoul - Sonic Monument
#2025서울국제공연예술제 작품소개
서울 전역의 여러 장소에 ‘소리로 세운 기념비(소닉 모뉴먼트)’가 세워지며 이는 라이브 및 레코딩된 소리들을 중심으로 공연의 형태로 구현된다.
《위트니스 스탠드 서울 : 소리의 기념비》
ㅣ매들린 플린, 팀 험프리, 김조호, 임현진, 조은희
🗓️ 2025. 10. 22. (수) ~ 10. 24. (금)
📍낙산공원 전망대
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At multiple sites across the city of Seoul “a sonic monument” will be developed as a series of performances, live and recorded, focussing attention on what may have been unheard, placing audience, performer alike in direct, situated relationship with these places.
《Witness Stand Seoul - Sonic Monument》
ㅣMadeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey, Joho Kim, Jin Yim, and Eunhee Cho
🗓️2025. 10. 22. (WED) ~ 10. 24. (FRI)
📍Naksan Park Observatory
┏━━━━━━━━━━━𝙎𝙋𝘼𝙁
𝘚𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭
𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧. 𝟣𝟢. 𝟣𝟨.(𝖳𝗁𝗎) – 𝟣𝟣.𝟢𝟫.(𝖲𝗎𝗇)
𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
Our next 6 weeks are pre-occupied with this beautiful work, led by artist Jason Maling.
Diagrammatica, RISING 2025.
Inspired by physics diagrams, astral photography, and graphic musical scores Diagrammatica is an ever-evolving improvisation. An extended meeting between logic and abstraction. Created by Jason Maling, in collaboration with sound artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, along with filmmaker Rhian Hinkley, it’s an interactive living diagram, accessible from the underground. Sparks of ideas float freely and coalesce. Musicians perform out of view through a hyper-directional audio system. Shifting soundscapes submerge you.
Go deeper into the rift, with an intimate, subterranean experience in Slot 9. Or stay out in the open, above ground to watch the happenings for free in the Atrium.
We have invited 17 beautiful musicians to interact with this system: Golden Sands, Moses Carr & Ohmi (Lachlan Thompson), Nadav Rayman, Cat Hope, Kaylie Melville, Mindy Meng Wang, JP Shilo, Helen Svoboda, Aaron Wyatt, Flora Carbo & Winter McQuinn, Genevieve Lacey & Marshall McGuire. We invite you to sign up at the RISING website and build this world together.
Five Short Blasts for CIMF is open.
Five Short Blasts: I'm unsure of your intentions and fear we may collide.
This show only comes to life with a generous collection of artists, volunteers, skippers, conversationalists, all connected to the water, a collective commitment to a collective future. We are grateful to you all.
Dark and Quiet here for a month.
Cork, steel, crushed glass material, rope.
STRATA LORNE SCULPTURE BIENNALE 2025
Curated by Simon Lawrie
1 - 30 MARCH 2025
Lucy Allinson, Darcey Bella Arnold, Matthew Bird and Charity Edwards, Richard Collopy, Nicholas Currie, DarkQuiet: Madeleine Flynn, Jenny Hector and Tim Humphrey, Naomi Eller, Carly Fischer, James Geurts, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Anne-Marie May, John Meade, Kerrie Poliness, Studio Forrest, Jen Valender, Chaohui Xie, and Yusi Zang
Curated by Simon Lawrie, Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2025 presents a series of new site-responsive artworks by established and emerging artists to explore how contemporary art can respond to, articulate, and augment our experience of place.
Photo: snapped by artists
THIS FRIDAY: Golden Sands, a six-piece electro-acoustic ensemble, makes their debut at MPavilion—blurring the lines between human and non-human perception. Let their evolving soundscapes drift through the gardens, swelling and softening with the space. Settle in and listen beyond yourself.
‘All Things Listen’ by Golden Sands
🎵 Fri 28 Feb, 5pm–10pm
🎟️ Free to book via the link in bio
Performers
Biddy Connor
Mads Davey (@madsdavey )
Madeleine Flynn (@mflynnth )
Sooji Kim (@sooji06 )
Prudence Rees-Lee (@songsfromprudence )
Katerina Stathis (@_katerinastathis )
Sound Engineer
Alex Mras
📹 by Golden Sands (@goldensandsmusic )
