TarraWarra International 2026: System Release
TarraWarra International 2026: System Release presents ten artists from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and Mexico who reach into the chaos of global precarity to create new systems of order across a wide range of media. The exhibition proposes a different understanding of order as a kind of friendship with chaos, presenting personal and collective strategies for making sense of a rapidly changing world.
Curated by MADA PhD Alumni Dr Emily Cormack (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne), who was appointed Head of Exhibitions and Programs at TarraWarra in April 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to consider alternative systems of knowledge and ways of being, grounded in First Nations thinking, posthumanism, collective intelligence and more-than-human worldviews.
Participating artists:
Fine Art Lecturer Alicia Frankovich and Associate Professor Nicholas Mangan are presenting new projects for TarraWarra International 2026: System Release along with artists Daniel Boyd (Kudjala/Ghungalu/Wangerriburra/Wakka Wakka/Gubbi Gubbi/Kuku Yalanji/Bundjalung/Yuggera/ni-Vanuatu), Francis Carmody, Megan Cope (Quandamooka), Jose Dávila, Marco Fusinato, Nikau Hindin (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Tūpoto), Dane Mitchell, and Shannon Te Ao (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Wairangi, Te Pāpaka-a-Māui)
Event Details
- Date:
- 21 March 2026 at 12:00 am – 5 July 2026 at 12:00 am
- Venue:
- TarraWarra Museum of Art
- Cost:
- $0 - $18
- Register here:
- https://events.humanitix.com/system-release
- Categories:
- Fine Art; Gallery / Exhibition
Description
TarraWarra International 2026: System Release presents ten artists from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and Mexico who reach into the chaos of global precarity to create new systems of order across a wide range of media. The exhibition proposes a different understanding of order as a kind of friendship with chaos, presenting personal and collective strategies for making sense of a rapidly changing world.
Curated by MADA PhD Alumni Dr Emily Cormack (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne), who was appointed Head of Exhibitions and Programs at TarraWarra in April 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to consider alternative systems of knowledge and ways of being, grounded in First Nations thinking, posthumanism, collective intelligence and more-than-human worldviews.
Participating artists:
Fine Art Lecturer Alicia Frankovich and Associate Professor Nicholas Mangan are presenting new projects for TarraWarra International 2026: System Release along with artists Daniel Boyd (Kudjala/Ghungalu/Wangerriburra/Wakka Wakka/Gubbi Gubbi/Kuku Yalanji/Bundjalung/Yuggera/ni-Vanuatu), Francis Carmody, Megan Cope (Quandamooka), Jose Dávila, Marco Fusinato, Nikau Hindin (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Tūpoto), Dane Mitchell, and Shannon Te Ao (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Wairangi, Te Pāpaka-a-Māui)