Pale Blue Dot Collective are delighted to have been included in the exhibition ‘The Complete Entanglement of Everything’ at Dunedin School of Art, Aotearoa New Zealand, with a wonderful selection of artists.

This is very special for many reasons, but particularly because I lived in Dunedin until 2002.

‘The complete entanglement of everything is a reflection on how this changing environment
feels and is understood by artists, primarily from Ötepoti. Donna Haraway sees this period as the Chthulucene, thinking of underground spiders, and of underlying connections. She uses the term ‘entanglement’ to help us to imagine different futures, where species might have more to do with one another, and where new engagements might offer new moralities.The Anthropocene is irreversible but might be mitigated if we humans change the ways we generate and use energy, the waste we produce, and the ways we share resources. It is a time for a new approach to caring for the non-human world, and a time to draw on the Indigenous thinking that still places kaitiakitaka, care for the world’s resources, at the centre of cultural activity. It is a time for mourning, and a time to pay attention to the non-human entities both living and inorganic that have been ignored as being irrelevant to human flourishing, but on which we depend entirely.’