Art After Dark – Speculative Futures (water futures)
Dates & Times
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
5–9 pm
Program
Speculative Futures offers an invitation to propel your mind forward, to conceive of an alternative way of being with and in the world. To speculate on the impact of our present-day realities on the health of the future. It is a reminder that change is imminent and necessary.
5.30 pm – Gathering (walk) with Georgina Reid
Meet at Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct and walk together to The Cutaway at Barangaroo. Tide: A metaphor, a reality, a quiet force that shapes lives, places, worlds. This session is a contemplative exploration of what it means to be a body of water, what it means to be tidal. Rise and fall, push and pull, empty and full. We’ll wander, write, ponder. We’ll surrender to the pull of the tide.
6–6.45 pm – Wednesdays Up Late at Galleria Campari (live music)
Campari has collaborated with Sydney musician and composer Megan Alice Clune to bring you Wednesdays Up Late at Galleria Campari. Megan has curated a 13 week program of experimental, ambient and new classical music from both emerging and established Sydney/NSW musicians that will be framed with projections by artist, Carla Zimbler. Join us in Galleria Campari and experience the diverse landscape of Sydney and NSW music alongside mesmerising projections.
Performance by Low Flung starts at 6.15 pm.
6–6.30 pm – Knowledge Holders (talk) with Struggles for Sovereignty
Struggles for Sovereignty centre decolonial ecologies, working from an understanding that the global ecological crisis is tied to colonial, imperialist, and capitalist knowledge systems; and that racism, pandemic, and climate crisis are symptoms of these same root causes. As communities in the Global South face increasingly harsher realities as a result of climate change, agrarian struggles for land, water and food sovereignty are a frontline in resisting the destruction of our planet, and key for sharing and learning the situated knowledge needed to build alternative futures.
6.45–7.15 pm – Assembly (livestream performance) Himali Singh Soin, Subcontinentment
Subcontinentment is a manifesto that stems from Himali Singh Soin’s fieldwork in the polar circles where she was confronted with her alienness as a brown body in a landscape commonly used for outer-space simulation experiments. As part of a series of fictional ice archives, south asian futurism, renamed Subcontinentment, anti-chronicles the geopoetic links between the poles and the subcontinent. Assembly will feature a screening of Subcontinentment with a live audio component.
7.30 pm – Projector (film)
ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch (2018)
1hr 27min
Canada
Directors: Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky. Third in a trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark(2013), the film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.