Moonis Ahmad Shah is an artist working across installation, sculpture, computer programming, sound and video. His work explores what hovers at the threshold of appearance – what cannot be fully seen, counted or stabilised, yet continues to exert force.

During his residency, he will develop The Threshold Atlas: The Luminous Lal Muni, which takes as a point of departure Lal Muni – the mythical and luminous bird from South Asian folklore that sings to everyone and everything except to the sovereign king. Shah will explore scientific thresholds in their theoretical and technical forms – cut-offs, symmetries, indeterminacies, calibration, filtering and the transformation of fleeting phenomena into evidence – to further investigate what becomes signal, what remains noise and how the unseen is brought into language, diagram, data or image.

An index of the strange and inconsistent Phantoms from Everywhere, Artist Book, 2022 © The University of Melbourne, Sydney Myer and Fiona Gallery