https://ecologicalgyretheory.com Ecological Gyre Theory Sun, 04 Feb 2024 08:34:42 +0000 https://ecologicalgyretheory.com en https://ecologicalgyretheory.com/Information Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:06:58 +0000 Ecological Gyre Theory https://ecologicalgyretheory.com/Information Jaxon Waterhouse is a writer, publisher and arts worker exploring greening philosophy and seeking new ways to talk about the natural world and our place within it. Chantelle Mitchell is a researcher, curator and writer leveraging fragmentary and archival approaches to address structure and place in ecological frames.Under the auspices of their ongoing research project, Ecological Gyre Theory, Chantelle and Jaxon have presented exhibitions, texts public programs and lectures across academic and visual arts spaces nationally and internationally.&nbsp; <img width="3060" height="4080" width_o="3060" height_o="4080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f47698f00d0175aa100e3845ccd7ae5c9f77622e9825e4fcd39464dfcfa42407/Chantelle-Mitchell-and-Jaxon-Waterhouse--2022.jpg" data-mid="160152640" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f47698f00d0175aa100e3845ccd7ae5c9f77622e9825e4fcd39464dfcfa42407/Chantelle-Mitchell-and-Jaxon-Waterhouse--2022.jpg" /> https://ecologicalgyretheory.com/Traces Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:06:59 +0000 Ecological Gyre Theory https://ecologicalgyretheory.com/Traces TracesMADA GalleryMonash University, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture11 March to 1 April, 2023 <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb8d88220413e4280242ed3bd2c7fa6a31b49da68d945d58ba81cbd0eedb4e3c/Ana-Vaz--A-Idade-Da-Pedra.jpg" data-mid="203814654" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb8d88220413e4280242ed3bd2c7fa6a31b49da68d945d58ba81cbd0eedb4e3c/Ana-Vaz--A-Idade-Da-Pedra.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c75228bbcc6425d3975df731b9f76dc489d21147ecf5ac13dda5981691b2abc/Ana-Vaz--A-Idade-Da-Pedra--Kate-O-Boyle--The-Seers.jpg" data-mid="203814655" border="0" alt="Ana Vaz, 'A Idade Da Pedra', Kate O'Boyle, 'The Seers'" data-caption="Ana Vaz, 'A Idade Da Pedra', Kate O'Boyle, 'The Seers'" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c75228bbcc6425d3975df731b9f76dc489d21147ecf5ac13dda5981691b2abc/Ana-Vaz--A-Idade-Da-Pedra--Kate-O-Boyle--The-Seers.jpg" 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Traces reckons with what remains and what is carried forward, in an exhibition uniting new and existing work with selected prints and etchings from the Monash Collection. An acknowledgement of the trace invites considerations of formation of time, memory, place and understanding but additionally, recognises marking, impact, effect and consequence as fundamental in the creation of relationships, narratives and structures which construct individual and social realities. Drawing from the work of anthropologist Tim Ingold, a self-identified linealogist, Traces is the first exhibition in The line is life itself — a series of exhibitions for MADA Gallery throughout 2023 interrogating taxonomies of the line. Central undercurrents within this exhibition are considerations of memory or memorial, with the trace recognised as the persistence of an action past its initial register. Exploring this through physical, material, speculative and hauntological frames, the works presented in Traces consider the endurance of contact and encounter. 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66a78b4f29c8ada62d574fba1a35975288f17ffadbff1daa25a508ce4c365652/Diena-Georgetti--Abstrakt_Natur--1992--Konkrete_Phanomone--1992--chalk-and-blackboard-paint-on-masonite--2-panels--61-x-91.cm--Courtesy-of-Monash-University-Museum-of-Art--Photographed-by-Andrew-Curtis.jpg" /> Exhibition Documentation: Andrew Curtis Threads is the second exhibition in the MADA Gallery curated by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse as part of The line is life itself.&nbsp; The exhibition features work by Chris Bond, Serena Bonson, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Simon Denny, Diena Georgetti, IC-98, Regina de Miguel, John Nixon, Susan Norrie, Raquel Ormella, Patrick Pound, Koji Ryui, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Pam Virada. As the second exhibition in the series The line is life itself , Threads considers the generative capacity of the line through the framework of the thread. Weaving into and across the Monash University Collection, Threads presents these holdings alongside commissioned and recent work from geographically and conceptually distant practitioners that illuminates the connectivity and entanglement of matter and materiality. Like the web of a spider, a tangle in a child’s hair or a mycorrhizal network encircling the globe, threads materialise and give rise to relations, markers of contact and enmeshment. It is the filaments and fibres, alongside the act of their knotting and enmeshment that anthropologist and contemporary scholar Tim Ingold highlights as being central to the taxonomy of the line, and further, critical within the frame of life itself. Within this conceptual and material frame, the things and objects which make up the world are not rendered as “externally bounded entit[ies]” but rather as knots of constituent parts, knots whose trails entangle with the threads that comprise the knots of other forms. Threads is concerned with connectivity, the diffuse and glaringly obvious ways in which things are tied together across time and space. Seemingly disparate, the works presented here are united by form, content, context or speculation and invite their conceptual and material underpinnings to be assembled and reassembled in endless formations. As Ingold states, the world is a “total movement of becoming which builds itself into the forms we see, and in which each form takes shape in continuous relation to those around it” - it is this which allows the distinction between animate and inanimate to dissolve, for the entirety of life to writhe and wriggle in unison or sympathy. The exhibition includes a screening on the big screen at Caulfield campus of IC-98’s Theses on the Body Politic (Bind), 2020 on: Thursday 20 July, 5–7pmSaturday 22 July, 2–4pmWednesday 26 July, 2.30–3.00pmThursday 27 July, 2.30–3.00pmWednesday 2 August, 2.30–3.00pmThursday 3 August, 2.30–3.00pm This large scale video work depicts a rope in a state of tension and transformation and is part of the Theses on the Body Politic series, which addresses the material conditions of the formation of society. 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