These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature

Petroleum, chemicals, and bacteria have become agents of history. Humanity, or rather the settler-colonial project, has infiltrated every environment on a molecular level, resulting in anthropogenic climate crisis. In this state of ‘post-nature’ there are no edges; even plastic has invaded our blood streams.

These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature thinks with the molecular, the geological and the biological and their entanglements with social relations. Bringing together Australian and international artists it traverses choreography, sculptural installation, filmmaking, field research, tarot reading, photography, painting, and virtual simulation. Working from the premise that human exceptionalism has led to environmental catastrophe, the exhibition proposes a more ethical, symbiotic, and reciprocal approach to cross-species relations and ways of being in the world.

With: Alicia Frankovich, Caitlin Franzmann, Norton Fredericks, John Gerrard, Simryn Gill, Gabriella Hirst, Angelica Mesiti, Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton, Open Spatial Workshop, Alexandra Pirici, Susan Schuppli, Yasmin Smith and James Tylor.