Genie Stuart | Live Performance Piece

Genie Stuart is a producer and performer from Ngunnawal/Ngunawal/Ngambri Country. This live, durational performance takes Chetcuti's utopian paintings as a departure point for exploring how sound might construct a utopia within shared space. Found speakers and radios positioned throughout the space invite audiences to move through and within the work at their own pace. Woven through the work are frequencies — 174 Hz, 528 Hz, 432 Hz — each purportedly associated with somatic and restorative effects. Stuart uses live electronics and oboe to rehearse, through sound, an embodied utopia.

The event takes place during the opening night of the Sydney Fringe Festival.

This performance is in collaboration with Lucy Chetcuti's exhibition 'Thought forms from the queer utopia imaginarium'

Genie is a dj and producer based on Ngunawal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.

Genie is best known for her multi-genre dj sets. Her influences span the deep listening installation works of La Monte Young to RP Boo’s footwork and Nelly Furtardo’s Maneater.

Her long-running party Orbit is a space for expression, inventive stage design and international selectors. Bookings have included Honey Dijon, RP Boo and Ehua..

Outside of the club, she has had a long-time presence in community radio and has hosted on fbi.radio, skylab and 2XX. She also ran the Australian leg of n10.as radio.

In 2024, Genie debuted her solo EP Your Love Makes Me Sing — a tongue-in-cheek suite of drone, techno and pop.