My exhibition MIRACLE NOW is opening at Kunsthal Nikolaj in Copenhagen on the 24th in a museum that was a former church. As well as sculptures, paintings, photographs and archives, I am premiering a 9 channel sound and video installation.
Does nature evolve, or does she just change? So much information can now be stored in a tiny space. Scientists have said recently that ancestral trauma changes our genome in detectable ways. I imagine that in the future we shall put a drop of water into a machine and it will reveal to us every moment that its atoms have ever experienced, and every living and inanimate body that it has ever been a part of. When I first staged the play "Miracle Now" in 1995, my dream was that Nature would remember every one of her vanished faces, and that this knowledge would somehow inform her next iteration. This was a hopeful idea to me, in the face of eco-collapse. – ANOHNI.

“Nothing goes unrecorded. Every word of leaf and snowflake and particle of dew, as well as earthquake and avalanche, is written down in Nature’s book.”
-John Muir, 1872
ANOHNI: “Where do we go when we die?”
Nola Taylor: “Back to country.”
- conversation with Nola Taylor, Martu elder, Western Australian desert, 2015.