Interstellar Return (Impact)
Henbury Meteorite Craters, date unknown, 25.3 x 19.9 cm, https://hdl.handle.net/10070/439409.
Interstellar Return (Impact) emerges from an ongoing body of work which considers human-geological connectivity across expanded spatial and temporal frames. Though the impact crater as a site of connectivity, this exhibition looks at the generative potential of the moment of collision. In doing so, Interstellar Return (Impact) endorses a so-called ‘exploded’ material and conceptual view which deploys questions of heat, velocity and entanglement against predisposed terrestrial fixity.
Through relationships between objects, archives, and documentation, this exhibition considers the ripples of human/geological relationships from the impact craters of the Henbury meteorite, toward present and speculative future relationships between humans and space. We question the extension of capital and industry beyond Earthly borders, consider how space and interstellar matter moves us, and consider geologic connectivity as it relates to questions of time and encounter.
About the artists:
Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse are researchers and artists based in Narrm and the Western Desert, respectively. Together, they work across academic and contemporary arts settings through their research project Ecological Gyre Theory, which is concerned largely with experiences of time, space and relationality with/in a broader world. This work has taken the form of exhibitions across Australia and internationally, editorial positions, conference presentations, academic and arts writing. In 2023 they are curators in residence for Monash University's MADA Gallery.