Unexpected, playful & challenging

National exhibition set to call The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre home

Experimenta Life Forms explores the changing understandings of life in unexpected, playful and challenging ways and it is coming to Mount Gambier’s Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre this week.

The official opening is this Friday at 6pm, with opening remarks by Artistic Director Jonathan Parsons and Lead Curator Lubi Thomas. Catering will be provided and the bar will be open so RSVP via [email protected] or phone on (08)8721 2563.

Philosophers have wrestled with defining life for thousands of years. Experimenta Life Forms reveals how contemporary artists are approaching this perennial question, at a time when

technological change and new research findings are making definitions of ‘life’ increasingly difficult to pin down. What new life forms are emerging through technological and biological adaptation and invention? Are our definitions of life shifting because of new scientific discoveries? How do First Nation’s epistemologies influence our ways of thinking and understanding life? How are notions of our place in the web of life changing now that research is identifying sentience in animals, plant-life, and maybe soon to be found in our machines?

Experimenta Life Forms is a timely exhibition featuring a diversity of artforms including robotics, bio-art, screen-based works, installations, participatory and generative art. The exhibition showcases 26 leading Australian and international artists whose work makes significant contribution to current dialogues about the changing landscape of life as we know it.

INNOVATIVE EXHIBITION: Image Credit : Experimenta Life Forms (2021) Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart (TAS). Justine Emard, ‘Soul Shift’ (rear); Laura Woodward, ‘Planet’ (foreground). Photo credit: Rémi Chauvin