Step Change
Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin, sound by Tristen Parr
5th - 21st November 2021 - Crossing 21 Fremantle Biennale
8th July - 21st August 2022 - Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra
The third and final work in a collaborative series by Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin and Tristen Parr, Step Change is a large-scale painting, video and sound work that explores the urgent need to transition in the age of climate crisis. Using the site of the Kwinana Industrial Area located alongside Derbarl Nara (Cockburn Sound), the work shifts between the real and the sublime, as the still becomes moving and the changing sonic atmospheres turns light to dark.
Kwinana is a busy and expanding industrial hub and a focal point in Western Australia for public calls to transition to clean energy sources, positioned against the WA Government’s on-going commitment to natural gas expansions in 2021. COVID-19 drew our attention to the benefits of radical economic ‘degrowth’ and its benefits to environmental health. Step Change looks to the urgent need for attention to climate change and asks us what kind of habitable planet we are leaving to future generations.
