EXHIBITION TEXT
Sensorial agents Umwelt Collective (Lowana Davies and Merinda Davies) invite you to be enveloped in an intimate audio- visual, olfactory experience that takes you out of the digital ether and lands you back in your body. Drawing on shared childhood memories of finding identities and boundaries through the natural environment, ‘Mother’ asks us to find ways to communicate with place. Set 100 years from today, Umwelt Collective imagines a world that has been suspended, allowing the earth time to heal without human intervention. In this world sensorial agents are trained in interspecies empathy, communication and sensing techniques. Engage with ‘Mother’ by downloading the ‘Sensorial Agent Field Guide’, receiving a scent in the mail made from this place and leaving a message with m0ther on the phone.
Sensorial agents Umwelt Collective (Lowana Davies and Merinda Davies) invite you to be enveloped in an intimate audio- visual, olfactory experience that takes you out of the digital ether and lands you back in your body. Drawing on shared childhood memories of finding identities and boundaries through the natural environment, ‘Mother’ asks us to find ways to communicate with place. Set 100 years from today, Umwelt Collective imagines a world that has been suspended, allowing the earth time to heal without human intervention. In this world sensorial agents are trained in interspecies empathy, communication and sensing techniques. Engage with ‘Mother’ by downloading the ‘Sensorial Agent Field Guide’, receiving a scent in the mail made from this place and leaving a message with m0ther on the phone.
Project Hero Image, 2020, pictured: Lowana Davies
Project Hero Image, 2020, pictured: Merinda Davies
Project Hero Image, 2020, pictured: Lowana Davies
This exhibition was part of the online ‘Into the Ether’ program presented by Outer Space.
This program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body.