In response to our time of ecological crisis, BETTER NATURE is an annual program of art and events that embraces the complex entanglement between human and non-human worlds. Each year, BETTER NATURE explores different ecological ideas from a more-than-human perspective, challenging our prevailing human-centric paradigm to create moments of collective clarity and hope.

A Sudden Release explores Indigenous futures in a world of ancient methane release. Simulations for thermal radiation levels in runaway climate models have predicted that levels causing catastrophic climate apocalypse wouldn’t be reached in human existence. But what happens in a world where a sudden release of energy from arctic ice causes runaway climate change? The land loses water, and we live in conditions akin to the surface of Venus. Indigenous techniques in speculating climate change and environmental trauma focus on the story of the trauma to Country itself. We are not individuals in our future watching the spectacle of the world ending. We are communities repairing, returning and revitalising Country.