Access Memory, Live Performance- Tegan Nash Ollett and Isabelle Reynaud

Access Memory is a performance installation by Tegan Nash Ollett and Isabelle Reynaud exploring precariousness, and how we sustain ourselves during times of upheaval and uncertainty. The work ponders “is this a process of internal ‘scaffolding’, drawing on everything we know and experience in life – good and bad?”

Movement emerges through the manipulation of cylinder forms – a physical response to something structural, and the forms are given meaning by the presence of the body with them. The forms are nondescript and the process of defining them is an act of choreography. This creates imagery that mimics moments, memories and emotions present in the process of finding stability. The forms are used to build structures to sustain, house, and fall unexpectedly.

Impressive light states appear and shift as the sculpture and the body find balance. The work features a live collaboration with sound artist Isadore, whose haunting vocals and instrumentation are guided by the often unpredictable interplay between body and form.

Creative Team

Choreography/Artistic Direction/Performance: Tegan Nash Ollett

Sound: Isabelle Reynaud

Dramaturgy: Eliza-Jane Gilchrist

Costume Design: Lauren Bruce

Tegan Nash Ollett

Tegan Nash Ollett is an artist, creative producer, and performer working across dance, live art, and contemporary performance. Her practice explores movement, collaboration, performance installation, and community engagement. She has worked across regional and metropolitan arts sectors and has been involved in creative leadership and independent producing initiatives. She has worked and trained with a range of Australian artists and her residencies include Guts Dance Alice Springs, Goods Shed Arts and Lucy Guerin Inc.

Her works have featured in festivals, galleries and public spaces and includes collaborations with Australian visual, sound and projection artists. Recent works include Access Memory (Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, 2024) and Ours for the Making (Beechworth Biennale Commission, 2026).

Isabelle Reynaud

Isabelle Reynaud is an electronic producer and singer-songwriter from Gurambilbarra / Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (2011), Isabelle began fronting and writing for bands in Melbourne before creating her solo alt-pop project Isadoré.
Her work now spans theatre, dance, film, and community projects. After returning from a period in Canada, she established her own recording studio in Gurambilbarra / Townsville, producing music for herself and others. Isabelle has received multiple RADF and Arts Queensland grants supporting her artistic and community initiatives.