She Rested – Superposition

Driven by Aimée’s soaring live vocals and deep soundscapes, woven with Eddie Abd’s arresting video, She Rested is a performance that illuminates the sacred underworld of contemporary caregiving. 

Motherhood transforms and obliterates, yet the raw truths have remained taboo. She Rested offers up a moment of reverence in a world that so rarely pauses to acknowledge the journey.

She Rested will be presented at Superposition Festival in November 2026.

CREATIVE TEAM

Lead Artist – Aimée Falzon 

Video Artist – Eddie Abd 

Dramaturgs – Dr. Jessica Olivieri and S. Shakthidharan

Date and Time: Thursday 26 November, 7:30-8:30pm

Location: Q Theatre, The Joan

597 High St, Penrith NSW 2750

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Content Warning: This work discusses postnatal depression and suicidal ideation.

We recognise that these themes are difficult for some to engage with. If this performance brings up a strong emotional response for you, we hope you feel empowered to exit and reach out for support.

PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia) 1300 726 306

Lifeline 13 11 14

About the Creative Team

Lead Artist – Aimée Falzon 

Aimée Falzon is an interdisciplinary composer, singer, music producer and performer whose art weaves song, ritual and storytelling. Of Maltese, Scottish, and Libyan heritage, her roots trace from singing to cattle in remote Birpai country as a kid to now creating on Dharug Nation land. She's been praised for her "superb voice" (The Australian) and "impressive one-woman symphony" (Sydney Scoop) that reaches profound emotional depths. Her current projects include her debut album I Am Nature Working With You, alongside extensive composition, sound design, and screen credits across major Australian festivals and institutions. 

Video Artist – Eddie Abd

Eddie Abd is an artist and arts worker living and working across Dharug Country. She explores in her works, often containing autobiographical references, notions of performativity and cultural continuity. Her work is framed by historical research and family storytelling, pinpointing links between personal and broader historical and political contexts.

Dramaturg – Dr Jessica Olivieri 

Dr Jessica Olivieri is a BA graduate of the now defunct, always legendary Western Sydney University Art School, undertaking study at the Piet Zwart and receiving a PhD from Sydney University. This PhD focused on the intersections of visual art, performance, dance and theatre within a community setting and how to do it better. Prior to this, Jessica had a practice as an artist and curator showing at major institutions like Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and curating for Performance Space, Sydney and Campbelltown Arts Centre. Jessica’s experience of growing up in an intercultural environment, as well as ten years of house-bound chronic illness and dyslexia, have informed her commitment to intersectional access to the arts. She is currently Co-Artistic Director at Utp. 

Dramaturg – S. Shakthidharan 

Shakthi is a Western Sydney storyteller with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. His plays Counting and Cracking, The Jungle and the Sea and The Wrong Gods have won critical, commercial and community acclaim and toured internationally. He has a film, plays and multi-disciplinary works in development. Gather Up Your World In One Long Breath published by Powerhouse is his debut book. It will be accompanied by a year-long, large-scale artwork at the Museum. In 2026 he won the prestigious, global Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.  

Kurinji 

Kurinji is a home for storytelling that crosses continents, cultures and generations. We develop and present theatre, film, dance, books, music and more. Our key focus areas are global majority stories and work that breaks new ground in storytelling. Our work garners critical, commercial and community acclaim. It is simultaneously political and personal; at once for the mind and the heart. We’re growing a global ensemble of world-class global majority artists; and providing pathways for local emerging practitioners to showcase their talents at the highest level. Our work has forever changed the Australian arts industry and now we are beginning to share our model more widely, both in Australia and overseas. Our director is S. Shakthidharan, and our founders are S. Shakthidharan and Aimée Falzon. 

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS

She Rested is developed, produced and presented by Utp and Kurinji. 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Utp is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, the Neilson Foundation and City of Canterbury Bankstown.