Extraction Echoes

Location 1 : Tyneside Bar & Café, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle : 26.08 – 7.09.2025 

26th August: public launch and Q&A with Sel MacLean on 26.08. 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

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The collaborative exhibition project “Extraction Echoes” brings together Indonesian and British video works and explores the histories and contemporaneities of extraction and its impact on nature.

“Extraction Echoes” invites us to reflect on the complex relations surrounding extraction in the UK and Indonesian socio-cultural-geographical contexts, presenting video works that emphasise the interconnection between humans and our environments. 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 the Palu landscape is visibly modified by human intervention and the digital is becoming a global site of extraction, where each interaction has material consequences, landscapes continue to be shaped by human activities. Drawing threads across spatial and temporal distances, the videos question this myriad of complex relations and represent the possibility of a new beginning. How can we rebuild a broken kinship?

Artists: Sarah Adilah, Vania Qanita Damayanti, Sel MacLean, Jazmin Morris and Chris Tegho, Amanda Loomes, Kristo Robot.

Curators: Polina Chizhova, Rahmadiyah Tria Gayathri, Chiara Giardi, Muhammad Rizki.