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RISE 2.2: Considerations of saltwater, fish, mangroves & people, oil & plastic
Northern Australia, Torres Strait Islands & Indonesian Archipelago
11 June to 6 August 2022
In RISE 2, six artist / citizens tell stories about rising sea level and the raw kinetic power of water: ferocious, beautiful, hell-bent. The points of focus in RISE 2 are varied: from inspirational forms of art and cultural diplomacy to turbulence.
The colour ‘blue’ emerged through the colonial impulse to extract resources such as alluring lapis lazuli and blue-green turquoise. The selected artworks show our unstable geopolitical region where rising seas converge with global frames of ecocide, human rights, political corruption and fossil-fuel extraction.
Fiona Elisala-Mosby,Woer Waiz (Water Rising Wall), 2020, pochoir / stencil ink prints on paper, 76 x 56 cm (each). Fitri DK (left) + Sarah Pirrie (right). Installation view, The Cross Art Projects.
