Extraction Echoes

Location 1 : Tyneside Bar & Café, Tyneside Cinema,10 Pilgrim St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6QG

26.08 – 7.09.2025, free entry

26th August: public launch and Q&A with Sel MacLean and cast at 6pm

Location 2: Kongsi 8, Jakarta, Indonesia: 6.09 – 28.09.2025

6th September: Exhibition opening with introduction by Chiara Giardi

Location 3: Marlah! Hub, Palu, Indonesia: 8.09. – 18.09.2025

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, Rahmadiyah Tria Gayathri, Chiara Giardi, Muhammad Rizki.