Ecological Gyre Theory
Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse
Chantelle Mitchell (VIC) and Jaxon Waterhouse (NT) are long term collaborators, working together as Ecological Gyre Theory, a multidisciplinary artistic research project.
This project manifests as curatorial practice, experimental writing, sculptural and installation practice and academic research.
In 2023, Chantelle and Jaxon were the Monash University Art, Design and Architecture Gallery Curators in Residence, presenting three exhibitions and a series of programs with Australian and international artists in consideration of concepts drawn from the theoretical frameworks of anthropologist Tim Ingold. They have published widely across contemporary theory and ecology.
Together, they were co-directors of Ordinance, a contemporary arts space in Narrm.
︎︎︎ ecologicalgyretheory@gmail.com
Volumetrics a reader for e-flux
Focusing upon depths, atmospheres, flows and muddying, we present a series of texts that act as vessels of volumetrics. These texts interrogate ecologic, geologic, and cartographic space; while internalizing and unravelling intimate, affective, and traumatic currents. Following fluvial linkages between these texts, we read through the framework of Ecological Gyre Theory, our ongoing research practice. EGT investigates the renewal and recontextualization of all things as texts, encompassed within endless constellations of assemblages in our rapidly changing world. Theoretically, EGT speaks to descension, acceleration, and reworlding; a methodology to investigate, examine, and consider that which whorls, eddies, and flows in our current context.
