Installations by Steven Cybulka, Jamie Graham-Blair, Su-An Ng and Alexandra Tálamo
SEED:
imagine a monument
imagine a monument
built from the debris of road trips vehicles of kinship
and counters of clicks in scrolling numbers that mark the distance between work and home
imagine a monument
with memories of burnt rubber and burn outs of burning down
and rusting up
now bashed, crashed, and disfigured once metal chariots
now skeletons
becoming fragile
imagine a monument
made of metal windows
that records the changing landscape
that frames portraits of our advancing sometimes gentle, sometimes ferocious transporting us forwards and backwards and underground that shifts the shapes our body makes
to fit the caves and alcoves
archways and corridors of its edges
imagine a hundred years from now
standing on sacred ground
seeing layers of compressed steel splayed open fluorescent moss weaving giant carpets across car bodies tree roots like octopus tentacles cracking open the earth
tall grass and wildflowers mapping the sunlight’s trail
and midden mounds that build landscapes from our metallic-dead a new layer atop of ancient stratum defining
the time of the environ-metal
Fossilised machinery, ancient bones of car bodies and compressed layers of steel: SEED imagines a monument to memorialise our environ-metal age.
Using cars found abandoned along the West Coast, this industrial installation will be completed by Queenstown’s unique natural processes and unveiled in 100 years.
Bringing together the sacred and the discarded, the organic and the industrial, SEED embodies a ritual of contrast that honours the complex knowledge held by this land.
ARTISTS
Alexandra Tálamo
Steven Cybulka
Su-An Ng
Jamie Graham-Blair
Rory Wray-McCann
David Fitzpatrick (Fitzy)
Emma Porteus
THANK YOU
SEED has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the Festivals Australia program and the Regional Arts Fund. SEED is also supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, by the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia and by Situate Art in Festivals, The Unconformity, and the National Trust.
