ee with ellow owers is an installation and performance work that considers temporality, nourishment, home and the impact of social and environmental dissonance. In this work, Tamas-Cao tends to a fragile structure, built from Vietnamese rice paper and other organic materials. 

In Sanguine Fever Dream, Samuel Chan sits at a table and peels red-dyed eggs. Symbolising renewal and good fortune, the red eggshell references Chan’s Singaporean-Chinese cultural heritage and is one of a number of signifiers, from both Eastern and Western traditions, that appear in his sculptural practice. Across the duration of the performance, Chan crushes the eggshell into a fine substance, in a contemplative act of reverence and defiance.  

Holding space between brutality and tenderness, Elsa Mona’s performance Like a Mother unpacks the concepts of endurance, femininity, monstrosity, and ecological decay. In this work, the body interacts with a range of abject forms, precariously suspended from overhead beams like barnacles or burrs. Like a Mother incorporates looped sound and dance-based performance to unpack the tension between creation and destruction; vulnerability and brutality.

Hatched Curatorial Associate Mia Palmer-Verevis will be in conversation with four exhibiting Hatched artists, Nicole Goode (VIC), Grace Yong (WA), Gosha Heldtz (NSW) and Maelyse Xinh Leculier (NSW) about their works, practice and plans for the future. 

‘Hold to’ (2024) exists as a live investigative site, in which durational improvised movement is employed to explore ideas of Charles Horton Cooley’s ‘looking glass self’ theory and the performative body. Staged here in response to the 3-channel video installation ‘Symbiotic Dream Girl’ (2024), the two performers slowly embody notions of perception, imitation, and social performativity; ultimately questioning ideas of selfhood, through each other and the surrounding screens.  

Focusing on instability, collapse and failure, Linger (grind rail) is a durational performance that explores the body’s vulnerability, proposing alternative ways of being in and relating to space. Through embodied slowness, the artist interacts with a steel grind-rail – an object commonly found in skate parks. Activating the grind rail as a signifier of masculine-coded sites, this performance explores what it means to defy the patterns of behaviour that are demanded by public space. 

Join Archie Moore, renowned Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist and guest judge for the Dr Harold Schenberg Arts Awards, as he shares an artist talk to mark the opening weekend of the Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025. A former Hatched alum, Moore will share insights into the development and presentation of his Golden Lion-awarded Venice Biennale work, kith and kin (2024).

Wrap up a day of discussion and performance with a sundowner at Picabar with the artists and PICA staff.