Join the opening night of Another World, an exhibition that explores an alternative approach to technology through the prism of the defeated revolutionary struggle for an independent Tamil homeland.

Another World explores an alternative approach to technology through the prism of the defeated revolution for an independent Tamil homeland. During the Liberation War for Tamil Eelam (1983 – 2009), the de-facto state of Eelam was self-governed by a revolutionary movement that, in the early years of the World Wide Web, used the internet to build a globally distributed parallel economic system among the Tamil diaspora. However, the movement’s political ambitions were eclipsed by a bitter military conflict and in 2009 the Sri Lankan government brutally eradicated the autonomous Tamil state.

Another World contrasts some of the liberation movement’s lost cultural legacies with the contemporary realities that have unfolded in the wake of that war to both imagine and prompt alternate possible futures.

Developed together with Christopher Kulendran Thomas’s longtime collaborator Annika Kuhlmann, the exhibition features a newly commissioned immersive video installation, a series of algorithmically generated paintings, a suite of painted ceramics by Aṇaṅkuperuntinaivarkal Inkaaleneraam, and a new variation of the 2019 video installation Being Human, which looks at the relationship between human rights and the global art field in the artist’s family’s homeland.

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Monday 10 October 2022, 6:30pm, Upper & Lower Galleries