“Every Second Feels Like a Century”
Alterfact, Vito Bila, John Brooks, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Nicholas Hovington, Angela Thirlwell, Adam Ridgeway and Jasmine Targett
1 Sept → 7 Oct 2017

Every Second Feels Like a Century explored the Apocalypse in our modern world, a world where utopia is born from dystopia. Collectively aware of the two extremes, and the atrocities involved, many of us living between dichotomies fearful of both privilege and poverty.

Through struggles for gender and racial equality and the fight for environmental and political rights, we relive our past, attempting to move forward. Living in suspended time. Objects illustrating our journey, our history, our transience, our permanence, our story.

Apocalyptic; A drive towards survival – political, personal, environmental, emotional. Remnants of ideas, tools and thoughts scattered throughout cultures and time illustrate a universal desire, a race against destruction.

The Apocalypse is not new, Aboriginal people are facing the end of the world over and over again, grasping for air against waves of colonisation. Languages have been hidden away, some lost, some found, memories of the past living on through the devastation.

We collectively keep the stories, the connection to our Country remains, seedlings for future generations. Our ways of doing are being altered and adapted into the future, bringing with us what is important, we fight for these things that matter, carrying them is not a burden, we will always hold our weapons of survival.

Survivalism is an attempt to predict an unforeseeable future to determine in advance which tools, machines, and codes of conduct will most efficiently accommodate basic human needs after the breakdown of civilisation.