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DIGGERMODE 2 — Joel Sherwood Spring ,’Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding, 2025.

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Joel Sherwood Spring

DIGGERMODE 2

Wiradjuri artist Joel Sherwood Spring explores the logic and ethos of technocapitalism from a First Nations perspective. In 2023, at the Institute of Modern Art, he won the Churchie Emerging Art Prize with Diggermode, an audacious two-channel video essay which addressed mining as its subject and process. Spring returns with his sequel Diggermode 2: Cloud Ceding, an installation combining documentary and narrative filmmaking, archival materials and sculptural elements. The work revolves around Kira, a drone operator at RAAF Edinburgh, who has just bought a Defence Housing Australia house in Northwest Quarter Estate in Adelaide’s Angle Park. It traverses soldier-settlement histories, land-title registration, lifestyle vlogging, data-centre real-estate monopolies, and how Australia’s strategic position in the Pacific secures future rare-earth extraction.

4 October—20 December

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