Rupture: all the stars unshining

This installation will be open
Thur 20 - Sun 30 Oct: 10am -10pm

Rupture: all the stars unshining is an affecting video and performance installation, revealing the ways in which the body and the world mimic each other in states of panic and crisis. Created by groundbreaking experimental artists V Barratt, Linda Dement and Jessie Boylan (BoneDirt), Rupture explores how symptoms of environmental and human ‘disorder’ can be seen as an appropriate response to personal traumas and global disaster. This relationship plays out across multiple screens alongside occasional moments of live performance, placing Barratt’s body in direct conversation with extraordinary video footage of landscapes in states of transformation and flux.

In our current age of anxiety, global politics, ecological devastation, insecurity and instability pervade our daily lives: we are constantly faced with present and imminent environmental and psychological ‘rupture’. These ruptures reveal a human moment beneath the machinations of catastrophic late capitalism. By considering this human state of panic as a form of both urgency and agency, can we begin to develop ways of engaging with—and exiting from—catastrophe?

Audience Warnings: Content related to panic and anxiety, Low frequency sounds