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Ecological Gyre Theory
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Horizonites
Becoming-loaf
The worldlessness of the stone 

Interstellar Return
landslip II
landslip I
Peak Whale Oil II
Peak Whale Oil I
Pine-ing for a Voice
Thylacine De-Extinction
Limits to Hope/Surplus of Growth
Writing&Concepts
Shapes on the Horizon
Circulating Actuality
Abyss Lessons
The Edges of the Abyss
Volumetrics Reader
Petrogeist
deluge

Vortextual Thinking

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Peak Whale Oil
Sawtooth ARI
Invermay, Launceston, lutruwita


Grace Connors, Chantelle Mitchell, Nadège Philippe-Janon, Jack Wansbrough, and Jaxon Waterhouse
curated by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse 



Peak Whale Oil is a group exhibition of new work  investigating whaling industries and surfeits of whale oil produced in Australia throughout the 1800s through a contemporary petrocultural lens. Through material investigation, Peak Whale Oil posits a synchronicity between geologic and marine resource extraction. Working from a historical locatedness toward speculative future, Peak Whale Oil draws terrestrial and aquatic equivalences between peaks of petroleum and the continual unfurling of ‘peak oil’ discourse, as read diffractively through the past pursuit and persecution of cetacean bodies.


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