System Release: Artist Talk and Curator's Walk

Join Dr. Emily Cormack for a curator's tour of System Release. Cormack will provide context and reveal connections between the works, offering deeper insight into the exhibition and the ideas within it.

The tour will be followed by artist talks with Dane Mitchell and Megan Cope.

Dane Mitchell (Aotearoa/Australia) speaks to his works Remembering and Forgetting (Venn) (2016) and Remedies for Remembering (AI) and Forgetting (NaCl) (2015–16), which think through the logic of homeopathy and draw attention to the role of the Museum as a filtering device responsible for both the remembering and forgetting of stories. Mitchell's work invites the Museum to acknowledge its role in the construction and representation of history and ideas and offers the possibility of 'healing' through dousing and critical reflection.

Megan Cope's A great depression (2024) explores the rejuvenation of the Kinyinyarra (oyster) beds at Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). The work responds to the decimation of the Quandamooka people's oyster beds during the colonial period. The middens that populated the coastline of Stradbroke Island before colonisation were mountainous, forming an architecture of inhabitation that was a cumulative record of sovereign occupation of First Peoples. Cope reinstates these midden towers, rebuilding their form and reclaiming their sovereign legacy.

Saturday 20 June, 2–4pm. Free with Museum Entry. Bookings required.

This exhibition is supported by The Chartwell Trust.