Four contemporary artists are commissioned by Burrinja to make new digital works. These will be delivered for free to participants via text message throughout April.
Whilst we often think about our sense of place being a physical thing – located in relation to an environment, what if we locate ourselves in time? In relationship with time. Of a time. That is to say, in relation with a past, present and future (which might not be chronological).
‘Between here and tomorrow’ asks artists to situate their work in between where we (as a community) find ourselves and where we are going. What will enable us to create the future we so rapidly need? What present urgencies needs to be addressed to build tomorrow?
‘Between here and tomorrow’ articulates a place of transition, of momentum, of desire, of feeling, of moving towards, of being both after and before a moment. With a 65,000 year history of human habitation and care for this place, tomorrow is not so far away.
Holding pattern will see work created that explores the nature of change, the intermediate state. Through this, artists do what they are exceptional at: they will imagine a future.
Coldrey will present The Unconquered Sun - a climate dystopia exploring a fictional post-human landscape in augmented reality. Floating in an empty sky, a surreal, arid desert is littered with the artefacts of an unknown future. Degraded fast food packets, abandoned livestock entertained by virtual reality headsets, and failed hydroponic crops are clues indicating humanity’s last attempts at drawing food from the landscape.
The Unconquered Sun references human-driven climate change as a battle between humanity and the sun, and Sol Invictus, a sun god from cults within the Roman Empire. Through her piece, Coldrey questions our dependant relationship with the sun - a giver of life in Earth’s early history and a taker of life in the future if not abated. How might our future mythologies of the sun evolve around a climate catastrophe? Perhaps sun cults may re-emerge, reintroducing reverence and respect for the sun in a final, desperate attempt to continue life on Earth.