A RIPPLE EFFECT

by EITZ (Elephant in the Zoom)

Tracy Megan, Taryn Millar, Katherine Glenday, Josephine Grindrod, Anne Graaff, Mary, Anne Botha and Erica Elk

06.10.22 - 17.11.22

Main Gallery, Mezzanine Gallery and New Media Room

Climate scientists have advised of the imminent rise in the Earth’s temperature due to global warming. This will have a profound and negative consequence for all species and is but one index to the damaging impact that human activities have had on the Earth’s systems.

Water – the most fundamental of life-sustaining elements - will continue to be adversely affected. The artists represented in The Ripple Effect seek to address this situation with image-making in the belief that through creative engagement and the finding of collective voice, some greater agency and hope might be possible.

Water has been explored in its myriad roles as a magician; guide; healer; traveler; activist; sustainer; arbiter and author. This has surfaced dystopian images of Water as catastrophe and contaminant, but also more optimistically as conductor of sound, revealer of body states and dissolver of fixity through its fundamental character – fluid, and endlessly metamorphosing.

The works exhibited for The Ripple Effect will be put into relation with the artefacts and impulses which arise during the second component of the exhibition. Taking place around the AVA precinct during the six-week run of the exhibition, citizens and civic thought leaders will be invited to add their evidence to the poetics, processes and pasts of Water.

EITZ is a group of artists committed to engaging with the impact of climate change. We believe collective action is fundamental to addressing the scale of this reality.

The Ripple Effect will be opened on 6 October at 18:00 by an environmental lawyer, author, speaker and advocate for ecological sustainability Cormac Cullinan. A programme of talks and events will accompany the exhibition.

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