Contact High: New York
Brian Fuata
Intermission (minor gestures)

For night three of Contact High: New York, Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT Presents: Brian Fuata and Tati au Miel, Intermission (minor gestures) 2025, with Bhenji Ra (via satellite as a minor character). Reserve your free ticket.

The performance is produced largely on site over ten days, starting from the artists’ arrival on July 16 to the performance night on July 26. The grounds of the work are tilled by Erin Manning’s idea of the minor gesture as it pertains to forms of improvisation, the technicalities of the rehearsal, and the drawn celestial affects of Fuata and au Miel’s first time in-person encounter. Bhenji Ra will appear via satellite as a minor character. 

Established in Australia’s experimental performance scene (1999-2006) with his autofiction monologues and 20-minute improvisations, Brian Fuata works across visual and live arts via performance, film, installation, email and sms text, social media and print. His practice in structured improvisation is the ‘mediation of performance’ drawn from reading select physical, social and relational features of a given site and context to manifest his live and digital events. 

Brian is represented by Sumer Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Aotearoa.

Tania Daniel, also known as Tati au Miel, is a Montreal-born and raised interdisciplinary artist of Haitian heritage. Their practice is grounded in experimentation, which informs every step of their creative process. Driven by abstraction, spirituality, and texture, they evoke sensory-led experiences of these themes, interpreted through sound, installation, performance, extended reality, and visual arts.

In recent years, they have presented a solo exhibition, Reverie (2024), at World Creation in Montreal, composed the core score for Bhenji Ra’s debut feature film Biraddali: Dancing on the Horizon, and have recently begun their graduate studies in Music/Sound at Bard MFA.

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​​Across three nights, 24-26 July, Gertrude, Performance Review and PAGEANT present Contact High: New York, a free showcase of Australian performance practice.