Exhibition: Loren Kronemyer’s Materiel World at Cannery Arts Centre
Cannery Arts Centre and SPACED are keen to share that our Circular Economies resident artist, Loren Kronemyer, is returning the products of her e-waste buy-back scheme to Cannery Arts Centre with the fully charged screening of the film Materiel World.
Opening date: Friday November 21
Where: Cannery Arts Centre, Kepa Kurl, Esperance
Exhibition runs: 21 – 28 November in Art Room Gallery
Following on from her e-waste buy-back-scheme event at Cannery Arts Centre initially prompted by the WA Government's gun buyback scheme, Loren Kronemyer has been researching the theme of forging new solutions to finite resources.
Materiel World explores the physical, logistical, and social lives of objects via a highly loaded question: is it possible to put it back in the ground?
In this ecological fantasy, the artists will attempt to reverse-mine community e-waste for copper, to shoot back from whence it came. Along the way, they must navigate a maze of entangled laws, ethics, influences, ideas, and contradictions that guide the lifespan of risky matter. The word "Materiel", as used in the title, is the military definition for equipment and munitions: inorganic inventory managed by the armed forces. From swords, to plowshares, and back again, this project represents the continued escalation of Kronemyer's research into the extremes of hard and soft survival skills.
SPACED: Circular Economies has seen five international, national and local artists spend sustained time in regional WA communities, supported by local arts organisations. The artists have dedicated their time in residence to socially engaged arts practice that engages local communities and is responsive to local contexts and the project theme of Circular Economies.
‘Circular Economies has seen SPACED continue its nearly 30-year history of meaningful collaborations with regional communities. Through the residencies, artists will be invited to consider their practice in a new context, understand Australian regional perspectives, and learn from local arts practitioners, building capacity through skills exchange and reciprocal knowledge sharing.’ – SPACED Curator, Miranda Johnson.
Loren Kronemyer is an artist living and working in regional Lutruwita Tasmania. Her works span interactive and live performance, experimental media art, curatorial projects, and large-scale worldbuilding efforts aimed at exploring ecological futures and survival skills. She frequently collaborates with metatechnician Hosting, and with Ian Sinclair as Pony Express.
Images: Courtesy of the artist and Hosting. Image one Materiel World at Contemporary Arts Tasmania 2025.
SPACED is supported by West Australian Government, through the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport, and the Commonwealth Government through Creative Australia.