Extraction Echoes
A collaboration between Videocity UK, Forum Sudutpandang and Chiara Giardi
Artists: Sarah Adilah, Vania Qanita Damayanti, Sel MacLean, Jazmin Morris and Chris Tegho, Amanda Loomes, Kristo Robot.
“Extraction Echoes” brings together video works from Indonesia and the UK to explore the histories and contemporaneities of extraction.
The exhibition is an invitation to reflect on the complex relations surrounding extraction in the UK and Indonesian socio-cultural-geographical contexts. From the depletion of natural resources and the heritage of coal mining to folk tales, the range of artistic positions invites us to reflect on our past, current and potential relationships with nature, whether harmonious, destructive or in an interlaced in-between.
As landscapes are continuously modified by human intervention and the digital is becoming a global site of extraction, where each interaction has material consequences, the entanglement between humans and our environments cannot be ignored. Drawing threads across spatial and temporal distances, the videos question this myriad of complex relations opening up the possibility of new beginnings. How can we rebuild a broken kinship?
Curators: Polina Chizhova-Wright, Rahmadiyah Tria Gayathri, Chiara Giardi, Muhammad Rizki.
