Fay is a performance artist based in the Netherlands. Her work deals with durational research developed through bodies, tongues, and the precarity of presence. Her urgency to create art comes from her need to find language by utilizing a methodology of stealing time.
Stealing time is a product of her MA research at the Home of Performance Practices, ArtEZ. It appears in the form of long-durational rituals that invite others to think along with the question at the heart of Fay’s ongoing research:
Fay imagines tangible ways in which precarious bodies can preserve themselves, such as going on a walk for 15 hours or talking nonstop for 4 hours.
In her 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 emerges. 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.