Petroleum, chemicals, and bacteria have become agents of history. Humanity, or rather the settler-colonial project, has infiltrated every environment on a molecular level, resulting in anthropogenic climate crisis. In this state of ‘post-nature’ there are no edges; even plastic has invaded our blood streams. 

Artists: Alicia Frankovich, Caitlin Franzmann, Norton Fredericks, John Gerrard, Simryn Gill, Gabriella Hirst, Angelica Mesiti, Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton, Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, Scott Mitchell), Alexandra Pirici, Susan Schuppli, Yasmin Smith, James Tylor. 

Curator: Anna Briers

These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature thinks with the molecular, the geological and the biological and their entanglements with social relations. Bringing together Australian and international artists it traverses choreography, sculptural installation, filmmaking, field research, tarot reading, photography, painting, and virtual simulation. Working from the premise that human exceptionalism has led to environmental catastrophe, the exhibition proposes a more ethical, symbiotic, and reciprocal approach to cross-species relations and ways of being in the world.  

The exhibition includes Alicia Frankovich's Microchimerism, on loan from the Chartwell Collection and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature will include a new performance work by Alicia Frankovich, co-presented and co-commissioned by UQ Art Museum and ACCA.  

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. 

Visit the University of Queensland website for further details.