14 October - 3 November Anthropocene - Dangerous Goods Seed by Dawn Beasley 3 minutes and 20 seconds In Seed, porcelain artist Beasley ventures into digital territory, intertwining her delicate porcelain forms with a momentous act performed by a silent dispassionate waif-like figure. The shattering of these valuable sculptural creations symbolises a distorted value system, human interference with nature, and an irretrievable loss, prompting a contemplation of life's fragility. De-energised by Peter Blamey 9 minutes and 26 seconds De-energised examines the relationship between energy use, technological waste and the urban environment, contemplating the fate of storage devices and attitudes towards their disposal. It is a process-based work of fairly modest means, shot vérité style while walking in Sydney’s inner west suburbs (Chippendale, Redfern, Darlington, Newtown, Camperdown, Glebe, Forest Lodge, St Peters, Marrickville, and Alexandria) between 2021 and 2023. 4 November - 26 November Anthropocene - Embodied Waste Kitchen Kabaret by Emily Norton 16 minutes and 14 seconds The Kitchen Kabaret features a group of people dressed as vegetables as they undergo the cooking process, from the fridge, to the chopping board, to the oven; singing and dancing at each step. A hopeful carrot, a seductive eggplant, excited tomatoes, the bad boy potato, a scared garlic, and an organic leek attempt to escape their fate, narrated by a witty blackberry jam. Various logics are courted but ultimately disregarded. Overt optimism is played against a disconcerting deadpan. Conceived as a kind of advertisement without a product, 90s children’s program, community theatre musical production or DIY sitcom, dissociated elements are made associated through song. The performance utilises humour to highlight the social and economic issues that surround our food and its production and distribution. The Fold by Miška Mandić 20 minutes The Fold explores the way objects disrupt our understanding of time through a series of bodily, sensorial and material metaphors. It draws on both science fiction and magic realist tropes to follow a man who is pulled away from a work call by a mysterious voice that repeatedly tells him ‘listen’, driving him further into remote bushland. There he unearths and meets the character of The Orb, which proceeds to shapeshift into a series of minerals contained in a standard mobile phone.