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
Interstellar Return (Impact) Watch this Space
Mparntwe
14 April - 29 April
Interstellar Return (Impact) emerges from an ongoing body of work which considers human-geological connectivity across expanded spatial and temporal frames. Though the impact crater as a site of connectivity, this exhibition looks at the generative potential of the moment of collision. In doing so, Interstellar Return (Impact) endorses a so-called ‘exploded’ material and conceptual view which deploys questions of heat, velocity and entanglement against predisposed terrestrial fixity.
Through relationships between objects, archives, and documentation, this exhibition considers the ripples of human/geological relationships from the impact craters of the Henbury meteorite, toward present and speculative future relationships between humans and space. We question the extension of capital and industry beyond Earthly borders, consider how space and interstellar matter moves us, and consider geologic connectivity as it relates to questions of time and encounter.
