In Extremis for Refuge

Climatic extremes are the new meteorological normal for our planet. This screen-and-audiobased exhibition offers human, interspecies, plant and geological perspectives, and visceral experiences of the fragility, resilience and collapse of systems and ecologies. in extremis is lightning storms, dry winds, urban heathaze and contorted railway lines; parched riverbeds and flooded cities; panting, sweating, fainting and hallucinating.

Join in extremis interlocutor Sarah Miller and presenting artists for a night of presentations, experiences and performance at the exhibition opening on Tuesday 31 October.

The High Ground
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey
A new installation in the North Melbourne Town Hall Clock Tower to accompany in extremis, The High Ground is a test of human empathy in confined spaces. Participants undertake a negotiation within a delicate and precarious situation. Only one person can make it to the top. In collaboration with Jen Hector (Australia), Live Umbrella (Finland), and Sophie Weeks and John Ash (UK).

Untitled
wāni
Coloniality’s imposition of westernised systemic structures through globalisation has literally brought our climate to its current condition, where the most vulnerable and marginalised are often the most devastated by climate change. Melbourne-based artist wāni explores displacement, erasure, anti-blackness and stories of dispossession that decentre whiteness in a new audio/visual work-in-development, presented as a special open studio to accompany in extremis. wāni is Artist-in-Residence for Arts House’s The Listening Program, as part of Refuge.

Participating artists include:
Leah Barclay, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, wāni, Jill Orr, Zoe Scoglio, Latai Taumoepeau, r e a and others.
Image: Jill Orr

Accessibility:
Wheelchair Accessible

Free but bookings required

Venue and address

Arts House, 521 Queensberry Street, 3051 North Melbourne, Australia

    Tickets for 1. November 2017

  • Wed
    01.11.2017
    10:00
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In Extremis for Refuge

This event in North Melbourne was published by Arts House.

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