Reciprocity
UniSC Art Gallery
16 August—25 October 2025

FEATURING TULLY ARNOT, TEGA BRAIN (WITH ALEX NATHANSON & BENEDETTA PIANTELLA), MICHAEL CANDY, LYNDON DAVIS, JANET LAURENCE, EUGENIA LIM, SARA MORAWETZ, GAIL PRIEST & HELEN PYNOR, ANNA MADELEINE RAUPACH AND YANDELL WALTON.

UniSC Art Gallery and ANAT present a major exhibition featuring works by Australian artists selected through a national call-out. Anchoring ANAT SPECTRA 2025, this major exhibition showcases diverse practices that converge with science and/or technology, to explore the ethics and potential of reciprocal exchange.

In research and creative practice, reciprocity has been theorised as a dynamic model of mutual benefit, one that shifts from extractive or hierarchical modes towards collaboration grounded in respect, trust, and shared agency. The reciprocity model is a space where all participants, human and more-than-human, thrive through interaction.

Collectively, the works in this exhibition ask how reciprocity, conceptually, materially, and as a lived experience, might guide us toward more sustainable and ethical futures.

TULLY ARNOT Australian. Lives and works in Hong Kong.
Soft, 2024, 4K video, sound; 21 mins (looped)
Music by Megan Alice Clune

TEGA BRAIN Australian. Lives and works in New York, United States of America.
with Alex Nathanson, Benedetta Piantella and the Solar Protocol Collective
Can the sun do the thinking?, 2021 – 2024, single-channel video, colour, sound; 8:00 mins

MICHAEL CANDY Australian. Lives and works in New York, United States of America.
Ether Antenna, 2017, single-channel video, colour, sound; 18:44mins

LYNDON DAVIS Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi. Lives and works on Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi Country (Sunshine Coast), Queensland.
with Leah Barclay and Tricia King
Beeyali (Canoe Tree), 2022, single-channel video, colour, sound; 16:12 mins, UniSC Art Collection
UniSC Contemporaries commission supported by the De Deyne Family, 2022

JANET LAURENCE Australian. Lives and works on Gadigal Country (Sydney), New South Wales.
Ice has a Memory, and the Colour is Blue, 2022
Antarctic ice melt on rice paper and pigment in acrylic, 12 panels
Collection of Maxine Chen

EUGENIA LIM Australian, Chinese, Singaporean. Lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria.
METABOLISM, 2023, single-channel video, colour, sound; 29:51 min
A film by Eugenia Lim and collaborators
Director, Editor, Producer, Writer: Eugenia Lim
Cinematographer: Tim Hillier

SARA MORAWETZ Australian. Lives and works on nipaluna country (Hobart), lutruwita (Tasmania).
61/60 61/60 (026) 61/60 (027), 2015 – ongoing Life-long performative action, performative artefacts, and archive
cymbals, cymbal stand, tape, lever arch ring binder, black and white prints, vinyl reinforcement rings
dual channel video, sound; 3:36 mins
Departure, 2015 – ongoing
Life-long performative action and performative artefact
archival pen on paper, 53 parts
Edition of two (A life-long inseparable set + AP for each year)

HELEN PYNOR Australian. Lives and works on Gadigal Country (Sydney), New South Wales.
GAIL PRIEST Australian. Lives and works on Gundungurra Dharug Country (Katoomba), New South Wales.
Trace Elements / Remnant Soundings, 2025
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Bundanon Farm), Bone china made from found bones of Eastern Grey Kangaroo, fine silver, sand-blasted glass, stainless steel fittings
Bone Tones: Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Bone conduction speaker, Bluetooth MP3 player, field recording of Eastern Grey Kangaroos, Capertee National Park, NSW. Licensed from Marc Anderson/Wild Ambience
Brushtail Possum (Canoon Road), Bone china made from bones of roadkill brushtail possum, fine silver, sand-blasted glass, stainless steel fittings
Bone Tones: Brushtail Possum, Bone conduction speaker, Bluetooth MP3 player, field recording of Brushtail Possums, Benarkin State Forest, QLD and Dharug National Park, NSW. Licensed from Marc Anderson/Wild Ambience
Magpie (Finlay Road), Bone china made from bones of roadkill magpie, fine silver, sand-blasted glass, stainless steel fittings
Bone Tones: Magpie, Bone conduction speaker, Bluetooth MP3 player, field recording of juvenile and adult Magpies, Katoomba, NSW and Sanctuary Point, NSW. Recording by Gail Priest
Bony Labyrinths, Bone china scale models of human middle and inner ear bones, made from the artist’s (Helen Pynor’s) bone removed during surgery and marsupial bone, sand-blasted glass, stainless steel fittings
Ossicle Drift, Wooden bench, tactile speaker drivers, bone conduction headphones, looped binaural and tactile audio (duration: 9:10)

ANNA MADELEINE RAUPACH Australian. Lives and works on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra), Australian Capital Territory.
A Curious Blueprint of the Skies, 2025, dual-channel video, colour, sound; 3:52 mins
Sound: Anemoia
Found footage: NASA archives, NASASpaceflight livestream, SpaceX livestream
Technical assistance: Kathy Smith, University of Southern California Expanded Animation, supported by Fulbright Australia.

YANDELL WALTON Australian. Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country, Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria.
Multispecies Convergence, 2023, looped video, LED modular system, steel
Developed with digital choreographer Harrison Hall and movement artist Sarah Aiken

Anna Madeleine Raupach, excerpt from A Curious Blueprint of the Sky, exploring the reciprocity between terrestrial and orbital space and begins with this animation of shorebird egg nest habitats threatened by SpaceX launch sites.

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