Opening event: 29 January, 6–8pm
Continues: 30 Jan–28 Feb, Tues to Sat, 10am–4pm
ecologies (Arctic) is a multichannel audiovisual installation and part of ecologies of duration, a long form project exploring environments that are sites of (human-made) crisis. It uses aerial and underwater drones and site-specific audio recording techniques to juxtapose the scale and duration of millennial glacial movement with rapid deglaciation occurring through climate change.
Barker and Munster’s image practices consider drones as sensitive, affective witnesses of place: terrain hugging via slow and macro panning, hovering and letting the drone move with the ocean and air currents through which it passes. These ‘ecologies’ of environment, image and sound ask: how might drones sense the Earth outside a ‘God’s Eye’ view? Rather than depict the crisis, our experimental techniques document the scars and ravages of climate change but also embrace the more-than-human ecologies of sites.
Sitting alongside the drone-based works, speculative AI-generated videos forecast different planetary futures for the sites witnessed.
Michele Barker + Anna Munster are established award-winning media artists and researchers. Their work has been shown extensively in venues such as The Art Gallery of NSW, The Science Museum, Detroit, and the Museum of Art, Seoul. They have created works spanning the media arts landscape over a 30-year period, focusing on experimental cinema and acoustic environments to explore the multifaceted complexities of human and more than human perception, movement and duration. Their body of work develops a unique audiovisual language using cinematographic, editing and sonic compositional techniques that deliver new kinds of embodied viewing experiences.
Image: Michele Barker & Anna Munster, from the series ecologies (Arctic), 2024, AI film still
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