There is (no) Anthropocene

The Artists

Miranda Bellamy (she/her) and Amanda Fauteux (she/her) work as a collaborative duo and with diverse contributors across video, sound, sculpture, installation, and printed matter. Their conceptually-rooted and site-responsive practice emphasises worldbuilding and the relationships between materials and histories. They share their time living within the Sikniktuk district of Mi’kma’ki (Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada) and in Ōtepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Colleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her practice oscillates temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, frequencies, the ouroboric, the orogenous, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox.

Janine Randerson makes artworks in collaboration with other artists, community groups and environmental scientists from meteorologists to glaciologists. She creates experimental video works and curates screening programs including “Heated Scales” (CIRCUIT: Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, 2025). Janine’s book “Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art” (MIT Press, 2018) focuses on modern and contemporary art that engage with our present climate and future weathers. She is an Associate Professor at AUT University, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Arielle Walker is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist, writer and maker, and current Postdoctoral Research Fellow with AUT University’s RAU Textiles Research. Working at the intersections of her Taranaki and Scottish/Irish Pākehā whakapapa, her research focuses on textile processes and poetic narratives, advocating for the revival, sustenance, and continued innovation of ancestral practices.

Shelley Simpson (Pākehā) works with forms of sculpture, photography, moving image and sound. In recent work she has engaged with the chemical properties of metals and minerals, coaxing material change over time through processes such as evaporation, heat and electroforming. Shelley has a PhD from Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau /AUT. Her PhD thesis titled Stonesense, Towards Lithic Thinking explores the relational minerality between entities. Born in Ōtautahi Christchurch, she lives in Tāmaki Makau Rau.

Virginia Were is a lens-based artist and published poet from Aotearoa who has a DocFA from Elam School of Fine Arts completed in 2023. Her transdisciplinary practice focuses on deep geological time and earth systems, and how new knowledge about them is shaping our understanding of the present planetary moment. She often combines poetry with photography. In 2024, her book An Intimacy of Long Unfolding won the student category of the Australia and New Zealand Photobook Award, and her photograph An Abominable Mystery was a finalist in the 2022 National Contemporary Art Awards at Waikato Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited in Aotearoa, China, and Germany.

Exhibition details

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