Average Recurrence Interval
Chantelle Mitchell x Jaxon Waterhouse
9 - 23 September 2023
Munro, Donald (compiler), Maroochy River, ca. 1890-1899, photograph, albumen silver, 25 x 33.5cm, State Library Victoria Collection
Average Recurrence Interval is a site responsive exhibition from Chantelle Mitchell (VIC) and Jaxon Waterhouse (NT), furthering key research areas of their ongoing collaborative practice. This exhibition undertakes an investigation, drawn from the premise of the ‘average recurrence interval’ in meteorological contexts in which historical data generates the ‘return period’ for specific types of exceedances (i.e. rainfall exceedance, earthquakes, or floods). Working across matter, medium, intervention and archive, the ARI framework presents and opportunity to consider temporal questions, ideas of containment and material relationships. In this context of this exhibition, this unfolds through installation, documentation and encounter with recognition of environmental and built conditions that create breaks, ruptures or connections between and across time.
ARTISTS
Chantelle Mitchell | @gently____
Jaxon Waterhouse | @severalthighs
Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse are researchers and artists based in Narrm and the Western Desert, respectively. They work across academic and contemporary arts settings through their research project Ecological Gyre Theory. They have presented numerous exhibitions across so-called Australia for universities and artist-run spaces engaging with relationships across time, place and matter.
They are the 2023 curators in residence for Monash University’s MADA Gallery, and recipients of the 2023 City of Melbourne Test Sites Development grant. Their work has appeared in numerous publications, including un Magazine, e-flux, Green Letters, art+Australia, on_Culture, and Unlikely Journal. They have delivered lectures and pedagogical programs through academic and arts institutions within Australia and abroad.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This initiative is supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program (CIIP) and is jointly funded by ArtsCoast through Sunshine Coast Council’s Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) in partnership with the Queensland Government.
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