This installation incorporates a large-scale durational drawing made with pen, ink, water and collaged components of photographic documentation from a series of intergenerational workshops, scholarly research and text. The drawing functions as a communicative tool, an aestheticised graphic to draw the audience into dialogue with the artwork, each other and the conceptual framework of the Anthropocene and the yet to come, Symbiocene.
From Anthropocene to Symbiocene
‘Asking us to imagine the Symbiocene is a call to action. It is asking us to imagine a parallel narrative to the Anthropocene. To me, this question evoked hope during a hopeless time’
– visitor comment, 2020
From Anthropocene to Symbiocene
Glenn Albrecht, formally Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Western Australia, proposed the term Symbiocene, based on the notion of symbiosis, which implies ‘living together for mutual benefit’ (2019).
The installation includes a sheepskin-covered bench and an invitational socially engaged space for visitors to create artwork.
