An Alternative Economics
7 May–9 July 20227 May–9 Jul 2022
#AnAlternativeEconomics
An Alternative Economics brings together Australian and overseas artists who explore the creation of value. Guided by the idea of the circular economy—as a compelling counternarrative to untenable eternal growth—they provoke us to reconsider what ‘counts’ in our society and why. Offering propositions for art making in a ‘post-growth’ world, they critique extractive systems, share cultural knowledge, promote the rights of nature, meditate on the role of art to promote change, decentre humans as arbiters of value, and highlight transforming relationships as the pathway to change. In big and small ways, the works in this show offer alternate models for a more sustainable, equal, and just future.
Artists
Curated By
- Tulleah Pearce
Make or Break are an artist collective working on unceded Gadigal and Bidjigal lands. They devise process-based projects co-authored with the communities they are invited into. These have included creating experimental economies and temporary currencies, caring for civic spaces, celebrating the labour of strangers, prototyping future worlds, writing speculative fiction, and facilitating conversations as collective research.
Wanda Gillespie is driven by her belief in the spiritual potency of physical objects. Familiar objects are reimagined with alternate uses, history, culture, and ceremony. Gillespie has refined her craft as a wood sculptor through her evocative portrait sculptures, which combine ancient and contemporary forms, detailed and abstracted. She is based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Wanda Gillespie is driven by her belief in the spiritual potency of physical objects. Familiar objects are reimagined with alternate uses, history, culture, and ceremony. Gillespie has refined her craft as a wood sculptor through her evocative portrait sculptures, which combine ancient and contemporary forms, detailed and abstracted. She is based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Founded in 2016, Five Mile Radius is a Brisbane-based collaborative design studio. Its architects, tradespeople, and educators are passionate about testing new ideas for Australia’s built future. They work with recycled and natural materials and are seen as a local leader in closed-loop thinking, waste reuse, and bioclimatic design. Their projects, products, and educational content imagine a world built on a respect for material resources. Funds generated through the Five Mile Shop are invested into research and education.
Gunybi Ganambarr is a Yolngu artist who lives at Gängän, near Yirrkala, in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He began by painting on bark and larrakitj, but extended his practice with an innovative use of reclaimed materials, including wood, rubber, glass, steel, galvanised iron, and aluminium. Under the tutelage of artists such as Gawirrin Gumana and Yumutjin Wunungmurra from his mother’s Dhaḻwaŋu clan, Ganambarr has attained ceremonial authority, shaping the content of his work.
Gunybi Ganambarr is a Yolngu artist who lives at Gängän, near Yirrkala, in north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He began by painting on bark and larrakitj, but extended his practice with an innovative use of reclaimed materials, including wood, rubber, glass, steel, galvanised iron, and aluminium. Under the tutelage of artists such as Gawirrin Gumana and Yumutjin Wunungmurra from his mother’s Dhaḻwaŋu clan, Ganambarr has attained ceremonial authority, shaping the content of his work.
Scottish artist Katie Paterson collaborates with scientists and researchers around the world. She uses sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate, poetic, and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment, considering our place on Earth in the context of geological time. Combining a romantic sensibility with conceptual rigour and coolly minimalist presentation, her works collapse the distance between the viewer and the distant edges of time and space. Paterson broadcasted the sounds of a melting glacier, mapped dead stars, compiled a slide archive of darkness from the depths of the universe, created a light bulb to simulate moonlight, and sent a recast meteorite back into space. Eliciting feelings of humility and wonder, melancholy and sublimity, her works are understated in gesture yet monumental in implication.
Keg de Souza is of Goan heritage and lives on unceded Gadigal land. She explores the politics of space through temporary architecture, radical pedagogy, and food politics. Her inquiry is influenced by her architectural training, her squatting and organising, and her personal experiences of colonialism—from her own ancestral lands being colonised to living as a settler on other people’s unceded lands.
Keg de Souza is of Goan heritage and lives on unceded Gadigal land. She explores the politics of space through temporary architecture, radical pedagogy, and food politics. Her inquiry is influenced by her architectural training, her squatting and organising, and her personal experiences of colonialism—from her own ancestral lands being colonised to living as a settler on other people’s unceded lands.
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13 May 2022
6-8pmDouble Exhibition Opening
'An Alternative Economics' & Jenn Nkiru: 'REBIRTH IS NECESSARY'
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