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The Future & Other Fictions, ACMI’s flagship summer exhibition, explores
where storytelling imagines and rethinks the future.
It is an original show co-curated by ACMI’s Amanda Haskard (Gunai/Kurnai) and
Chelsey O’Brien, in collaboration with director, featured artist and futurist
Liam Young.
Featuring the work of 19 creatives, it brings together an impressive 180 works,
showcasing film, videogames, screen-based art, costumes, paraphernalia from
movies, video essays, textiles, fashion activism and new commissioned works.
The future, according to Young, “rushes over us like water”. It doesn’t just
“happen to us” – “we can all be active participants in shaping and defining
it”.
At the opening he described the exhibition as a “call to arms”, challenging
visitors to imagine or be empowered to shape a more optimistic world. Young’s
analogy with water is present throughout the exhibition."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
