Deep Time Real Time explores design’s relationship to planetary systems through two opposing time scales – ‘deep time’ and ‘real-time’
Deep Time Real Time: access resources
About this project
Responding to the expansive spaces of Design Hub Gallery, this exhibition features a large-scale installation – designed by architects Simulaa – containing geological and material samples with research works to visualise our relationship to time through material artefacts. Presented alongside the interactive structure are time–based creative works – curated through the lens of ecology, energy, and technology – from Fayen d’Evie, Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen, Alicia Frankovich, Emma Jackson, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Nicholas Mangan and Cameron Allan McKean and Joel Sherwood Spring.The exhibition is open 20 February to 12 May 2025 at RMIT Design Hub Gallery.
What are these access resources?
With our closely held principles of access as a field for experimentation and a platform for generosity in hand, ALL proposed an array of responses, ranging from the pragmatic to the imaginary. These spanned access strategies that are adaptable for access now, and technologies or systems that could be developed for access in a future space/time.
This offering is a sampling from our pragmatic list: audio descriptions and textual image descriptions, developed using a variety of experimental and creative methods.
We invite everybody to enjoy them. They offer a unique set of sensory and critical avenues into the works in Deep Time Real Time, lean into richly subjective encounters with the works in the show, and reveal some of the artists’ tactics and preoccupations.
You’ll find:
- A room sheet optimised for screenreaders;
- Audio descriptions composed from conversational recordings in the gallery of artists Emma Jackson, Nicholas Mangan and Joel Sherwood Spring;
- A description of the audio component of Joel Sherwood Spring’s work HOLECODED;
- Narrative image descriptions of Alicia Frankovich’s sculptural works, from initial sight-lines entering the gallery to a close reading of textures and surfaces;
- Image description as sedimentation: a textual description of Simulaa’s work that will grow in layers through the course of the exhibition, through iterative drafting in situ;
- Descriptions of various objects and interventions placed throughout the gallery;
- … and more to come
List of access resources
- Simulaa: Strata Signals — image description as sedimentation (PDF)
- Alicia Frankovich: selected artworks — image description (PDF)
- C-SPAN: Greenhouse Effect — image description (PDF)
- A pile of Geological Survey of Victoria maps — image description (PDF)
- Emma Jackson: Timeline — audio description
- Emma Jackson: Tigerfish — audio description
- Nicholas Mangan and Cameron Allan McKean: Death Assemblage (The blade that makes coral time is shaped like a mushroom cloud) — audio description
- Joel Sherwood Spring: HOLECODED — audio description and transcript (PDF)
- Joel Sherwood Spring: HOLECODED — Written description of audio (PDF)
“… the cavernous resonance of bass frequencies pulls my bones and flesh into complicity with the work ...”
Credits
Creative direction by Fleur Watson. Co-curated by André Bonnice, Anna Jankovic and Fleur Watson. Exhibition design by Simulaa. Graphic design by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen. Access consultancy by Access Lab and Library (ALL).
This exhibition is produced by RMIT Culture in partnership with the RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design and with the assistance of The Swayn Gallery of Australian Design.
“A clear flexible tube, curled like an umblical cord or a cow’s udder, emerges from one end, connecting it back into the structure.”
Naarm