The Future & Other Fictions at ACMI
Premiering at ACMI on November 28, The Future & Other Fictions is a new exhibition showcasing the people, artworks and ideas shaping the face of tomorrow. From first knowledges and rewilded landscapes to sci-fi universes and cyberpunk megacities, this immersive exhibition showcases storytelling by leading creatives in the realms of film, video games and screen-based art.
Co-curated by ACMI’s Chelsey O’Brien and Amanda Haskard (Gunaikurnai) alongside film director and futurist Liam Young, The Future & Other Fictions comprises more than 180 works by 19 artists and creatives from all over the world. Step inside the exhibition and experience how futures are imagined for the screen through artworks, props, sets, scripts, clips, costumes and original design materials.
Works on display include iconic designer Ruth E Carter’s Afrofuturist costumes for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, plus concept art and models behind the intricate world-building for video game Cyberpunk 2077 and films such as Blade Runner 2049 and 2023 sci-fi The Creator. There are also masks, dresses and artworks designed for Björk’s 2017 music video The Gate; original sketches from interactive First Nations comic series NEOMAD; and fashion activism from Tāgata Moana art collective Pacific Sisters.
The exhibition also features two new moving image commissions: a short film on the embodiment of Country by Queensland-based visual artist and DJ Hannah Brontë, and a new work by Liam Young and Ngarrindjeri, Narungga, Kaurna and Noongar actress Natasha Wanganeen (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Limbo) that imagines a world in which fossil fuel production has ceased forever.
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