Video Launch: e-Galaxy #2
In October 2025, while in residence at DomagkAteliers in Munich, I edited and completed the video e-Galaxy #2, developed from footage filmed earlier during a residency at BEMAC in Brisbane. The work brings together installation, participatory performance, overhead perspectives of the labyrinth, and the comments of participants reflecting on technology, memory, obsolescence, and the material life of electronic devices.
A very special part of this project was the collaboration with Munich-based musicians Christoph Nicolaus and Rasha Ragab, performing as toffaha. Their soundtrack combines gong, shakuhachi, cymbals, water phone, and the rare stone harp — an extraordinary instrument carved from stone that produces deep, textured, almost geological sounds. The sonic atmosphere they created profoundly expanded the immersive and archaeological dimensions of e-Galaxy. The video was launched at Digital Art Space in Munich with a public activation and gathering around the installation on 22 October 2025.
e-Galaxy #2
2025
Single-channel video | Duration: 5:30 min | Electronic waste installation, participatory performance
A walkable labyrinth constructed from electronic waste, first activated by the performer and then by the public. The video includes overhead views of participants’ movements and recorded responses.
By and with Suzon Fuks | Music: toffaha — Christoph Nicolaus & Rasha Ragab | Text excerpts: Dr Julie Robson | Camera: Freddy Komp
Thanks to: Mayu Muto, Eyal Chipkiewicz, and all who walked the e-Galaxy
Instruments used in the soundtrack: gong, shakuhachi, stone harps, cymbals, and water phone
Filmed during a residency at BEMAC, Brisbane. Edited while in residence at DomagkAteliers, Munich.
With the support of Digital Art Space & Curt Wills Foundation.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body,
and supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Text excerpts
1.
museum of small redeemed objects
details, patterns, shapes, colours
dazzle and disrupt my sense of scale and perspective
I see a technological graveyard one moment
TECHNOLOGICAL GRAVEYARD
aerial views of modern cities the next
what appears to be a galactic ghost ship
GALACTIC GHOST SHIP
morphs into a haul of treasure
I am AN ARCHEOLOGIST | AN EXPLORER | A TIME TRAVELLER
This junk is bejewelled with earth’s metals
EARTH’S METALS
which have taken billions of years to form
BILLIONS OF YEARS TO FORM
and yet only a minute to mine
DISPARITY | CHILD LABOUR | WAR | WAR | WAR
Text excerpts (continued)
2.
going deep into the underworld of objects
creating a shrine to history
a manifesto for change
3.
Where is this piece from?
The enormity of how fast it has become obsolete
This object used to be such a big part of our lives
We will scavenge, remember how badly we treated the planet, ungrateful!
In the apocalypse, we’ll wear tokens of “what was”. It won’t be trash anymore
I got a real sense of the permanence of these things, which keep growing
Easy to get lost in the fascination of the textures and sound of these things
Very little thought was put into what happens to these objects when they stopped being useful
I worry in my gut
TOGETHERNESS
SHARING
WE ARE EXPLORERS OF THE FUTURE