10,000 years

Kau-ma (Multi-Arts Pavilion on Lake Macquarie)

with Sammy Bailey and Jye Whyte

10,000 years of continuous human habitation, adapting to and modifying the landscape of our site, shaping what we now see. But what of the 10,000 years to come? The past is a known quantity, if sometimes difficult to pin down and visualise, but imaging the future is pure imagination. The first few years can perhaps be reasoned, but this quickly drifts into places that each of us can only guess and dream of. Capturing these futures as satellite images presents it ambiguously as an apparently real place, but also a reality that hangs by the threads of radical change.  

How will the future weigh the effects of climate change, capitalism, socialism and technology? 

What latency does the site that we walk across today hold of its past habitations?  

How might its latency influence the years to come?  

We all make choices, what’s yours?