The term “as above, so below” refers to the idea that microcosms mirror the macrocosms and vice versa. With our current climate crisis, these words become a warning.
This exhibition challenges human exceptionalism in favour of symbiosis, coexistence, and greater balance with our environment. VR, AR, machine learning, generative AI, electromechanics, environmental DNA sequencing, super-computing and data visualisation are some of the techniques used in new and recent artworks by Australian and international artists investigating hidden ecosystems, plant communication, endangered species, air quality, eco-acoustics, posthumanism, plant/human relationships, and more.
Anna May Kirk, Year Without a Sun (installation view), 2023, video installation, sound, volcanic sand from Mount Tambora, mild steel frame. Courtesy the artist and QUT Art Museum
Anna Madeleine Raupach, Slow Violence (Eastern Victoria) (detail), 2019–22, embroidery thread on emergency blanket. Photograph: Brenton McGeachie. Courtesy the artist and QUT Art Museum, Queensland
Artists: Robert Andrew (Australia), Tully Arnot (Australia/Hong Kong), Art for Nons (Lea Luka Sikau, Denisa Půbalová, Antje Jacobs) (Germany, Netherlands, Australia), Michele Barker+Anna Munster (Australia), Kate Geck (Australia), Oliver Hull (Australia), Anna May Kirk (Australia), Ross Manning and Anna Tweeddale (Australia), Daniel Miller (USA), Anna Madeleine Raupach (Australia), Tiare Ribeaux (USA), Scenoscosme (Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt) (France), Nicole Smede (Australia), Tamiko Thiel (Germany), and Xenoangel (Samuel Twidale and Marija Avramovic) (France).
QUT Art Museum
23 June to 13 October 2024
Queensland
