SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

The lines connecting science fiction with ancient philosophy and mythologies are brought to light through the work of Asian and First Nations women artists and collectives.

The exhibition weaves together narratives found in Western science fiction literature and cinema with ideas inherent in Eastern spiritual traditions that have evolved over centuries and millennia.

Adopting Western science fiction paradigms, such as parallel worlds and interdimensional travel, as a starting point, SCI–FI explores science fiction’s possible roots in Asian philosophy and spirituality.

Themes such as hybridity, mysticism, transcendence and other-worldly utopias, which are found in both fields, seem to point to cultural traditions in Asia. Shown in Australia for the first time, this narrative is expanded to incorporate First Nations perspectives and knowledges