fay is a performance artist based in the netherlands. their work deals with durational research developed through bodies, tongues and the precarity of presence. their urgency to create art comes from their need to find language by utilizing a methodology of stealing time.
stealing time comes in the form of long durational rituals that invites others to think along the question at the heart of fay’s current research on "how can a precarious body preserve itself?"
fay imagines tangible ways in which precarious bodies can preserve themselves; such as going on a walk for 15hrs or talking nonstop for 4 hrs.
in their most recent work, fay collaborated with fellow precarious bodies by reorienting the movement of the city through mapping it according to the walks they go on together. for every precarious body, a tangible in-situ embodied response and a strategy of investigation to survive our time, fay’s work is dedicated to stealing enough time for these strategies to unfold and find themselves in practical ways.
not only are they practical but they are beautiful because art should also be beautiful.