Exponential Growth - Cynthia Schwertsik
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Exponential Growth

Single channel video, 01:38 minutes and still image
Images: Jennifer Hofmann
Performance: Cynthia Schwertsik, Renate Nisi and Zoe Freney

 

Exponential Growth is a video made post fire 2020, it was presented at The LAB, Adelaide at a Symposium hosted by the J.M Coetzee Centre, at Gespenster, group exhibition curated by W.Giegler for Kunst Kultur-Kirchberg, Austria and at The Adelaide Hills Landscape Prize, Hahndorf Academy

 

Locating ourselves in a place, the head planted on the ground, precariously swaying for balance, breathing and observing the sounds and scents around us. We call it: radical acts of sanity, an acknowledgment of our connection and dependence on all life forms that share the world with us. As the architects of extinction; this is our elegy to life on earth.

 

Upside down, the experience of being stationary changes the perspective significantly. Inverted. The exposed skin feels vulnerable and sensitive to the breeze. It is hard to surrender.