Daniel Collins and Molly Dalziell

28 May - 19 June 2026
Opening celebration: Thursday 28 May, 5-7pm
Level 3 Project Space

The instrument. The apparatus. Speculative objects slot new variables into lived reality: the agent of a game, of achievement, of endurance. An instructive humility emerges through phases of repetition and performance. Tracing the movements of hypothetical machinations, mapping the opera of the game-loop onto rational conceptual systems, exposing the tendency to project sincere belief, or vision systems, onto time and the body. 

Each frame becomes a diagrammatic celestial body: a constellation of stages, harmonics, and counterbalances that occupy the nodes between and within the game itself. The sequencing of events retells subjective and collective deviations from linear time, scrambling the fragments that compose performativity.  

Standardised to enable, enhance, and protect. These systems simultaneously produce valour, exhaustion, discipline, and desire. Lingering within a cycle of momentum and return, where the instrument becomes both body and participant in ongoing calibration, competition, and transformation. 

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Daniel Collins (b. 2005) is a Vietnamese Australian artist living and working on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. With a multi-disciplinary studio practice, he explores family connection and history, Vietnamese culture and various personal interests. He uses humour and wit as a tool to unpack and comment on tokenism and accessibility in an art context. He is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking) at the Victorian College of The Arts. 
 
Molly Dalziell (b. 2006) is a Greek-Maori Australian artist living and working on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. Working primarily with video and sculpture, her practice is grounded in intra-relation. Using systems of archive as a methodology, Molly extracts and re-configures built forms that investigates imagined pasts and futures. Recasting them in a play of velvet or digital crunchiness. She is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) at the Victorian College of The Arts.