Please join us to mark the opening of termitarium, a new exhibition by Taarn Scott and Finn Petrie which examines intersections of audio and animal architecture. Inspired by cathedral termite mounds and drawing on data from the Tropical Savanna, this collaboration explores vibrational communication patterns of these eusocial insects and their habitats.

Exhibition opens: Thursday 2 October, 5.30pm, with refreshments by Liberty Breweries
Hours: 12 – 4pm, Wednesday – Saturday
Closes: Saturday 1 November

Special event: Saturday 1 November, 2pm
Rui Inaba responds to termitarium

Artist bios
Finn Petrie is a New Zealand interdisciplinary artist and scientist currently based on the homeland of the council of the three fires – colonially known as Chicago, where he is pursuing a PhD in Neuroscience/Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. His practice is currently a mixture of sensory ecology, neuroscience, robotics, art, and sonic ritual, where he follows the search to bring us ontologically closer to non-humans. His art and writing have featured in Leonardo (MIT Press) and PubLab (LA Review of Books). Recent exhibitions include My Sky with Motoko Kikkawa (Dunedin Public Art Gallery), The Ghosts of Future Trees (Anteroom), Epiphytic Memory (Dunedin), and Retipora (A Network of Pores) (ADA symposium, Wellington). His portfolio can be viewed here https://finnpetrie.github.io/, as well as on instagram @endevolada

Taarn Scott is an artist from Ōtepoti, based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Their practice is multidisciplinary and often collaborative, creating tactile objects informed by ornamentation and jewellery, with forms that speak to ideas around habitat, environmental concerns and geographical histories. Scott’s recent projects include Somewhere Between Abundance exhibited in Naarm with West Space & in Ōtepoti through Slant Art Project Space and He tuna ora, he wai ora with Hana Pera Aoake at CoCA in Ōtautahi and tend, tended, tender with Grace in Tāmaki Makaurau.