Visiting Norwegian-Canadian artist Tanya Busse will share her research into landscapes where exploitation and speculation occur and discuss possible geo-healing therapies for their future. Busse’s work investigates how power is articulated through material relationships and histories of place. Most of her recent work is set in the high North of Norway where she resides, and explores how arctic ecology coexists with unveiled globalisation, the mineral extractive industry, and militarised and post-military spaces. She will be joined in conversation by Quandamooka artist and curator Megan Cope, whose work will be in our upcoming exhibition Haunt. Fireweed tea will be served.
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Tanya Busse works in moving-image, sculpture, and printed matter. She has exhibited at Podium, Oslo; Gallery 44: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto; the Turku Biennial; and Abbaye-Aux-Dames, Caen. Upcoming shows and screenings include On Earth, Structure, and Sadness, Serpentine Galleries, London; On Circulation, Bergen Kunsthall; and the Toronto Art Biennial. She co-directs Mondo Books, an independent book platform that publishes and distributes printed material across the Arctic region.
Megan Cope is a Quandamooka woman from North Stradbroke Island. Her works have been presented at the IMA; Parasite, Hong Kong; City Gallery Wellington; and Artspace, Sydney. She is a member of the Brisbane-based Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW.
