The Architecture of Multispecies Cohabitation

Exhibition by: Feral Partnerships (Beth Fisher Levine , Matthew Darmour-Paul, James Powell, Enrico Brondelli di Brondello, Francesca Rausa)

Exhibition period: Thursday 22 April - Friday 4 June 2021

CovidSafe Venue: Tin Sheds Gallery, 148 City Rd, Darlington NSW 2008

Virtual venue: Zoom link will be sent closer to the day.

Carp as kitchen helpers. Shadehouses designed to host guests amidst ferns. Farmhouses where cattle live downstairs. Decorative dovecotes for the harvest of nutrient-rich fertilisers. Enormous cylindrical towers for human remains to be devoured by vultures...

The Architecture of Multispecies Cohabitation presents surprising and hopeful stories of human and other-than-human interdependence, through the architectures that host them. In the context of anthropogenic global warming and the accelerating extinction of species, the exhibition presents work from a research archive of historical precedents in order to inspire new possibilities for building worlds with the other-than-human in mind.

To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Feral Partnerships (in person and via zoom) will present a collection of stories from the exhibition followed by a response and conversation between Danielle Celermajer, the Co-deputy director of the Sydney Environment Institute, and an academic from The Sydney School of Architecture, Design, and Planning. The event will culminate in a walkthrough of the exhibition.

Presence: FP, USD Arch, SEI & MSJ networks, industry networks, interested public.

Visiting the gallery during Covid-19:

For visitor guide please head to https://www.sydney.edu.au/architecture/about/tin-sheds-gallery.html

Image :Still from Grey Gardens. Directed by Albert Maysles and David Maysles. 1975.