Mutable Ecologies

Mutable Ecologies
Tracing Changing Environments
Curated by Kristen Sharp, Philip Samartzis and Andrew Tetzlaff

Mutable Ecologies is an online exhibition and public program featuring leading creative practitioners and researchers from Australia and Japan offering new insights and awareness of ecological futures.

Mutable Ecologies is presented by RMIT University and supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The Public Program is in partnership with Asialink at The University of Melbourne and supported by CAST Research Group, RMIT University. Project Partners: Musashino Art University; NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC].

Register for the Opening Online Event
The Miracle Pine Tree, Rikuzentaka, Japan
Philip Brophy

In his talk, Philip Brophy will review the use of tree imagery in some anime, films and artworks, focusing on the ‘Miracle Pine’ (Ippon Matsu), the last tree to survive from a grove of 70,000 trees in Rikuzentakata. The tree has been regarded as an unofficial symbol of post 3/11 recovery in Japan, and will feature in his forthcoming book project provisionally titled Unnatural Disaster — Imaging Destruction in Japan from Hiroshima to Fukushima and Beyond.