Postcards to The Future: when this is over, remember this

Postcards to the Future was an Australia wide mail art project to support communities to reflect and grow from and through the time of COVID19.

COVID19 caused profound disruption to everyday life, with changes across the work, home and social sphere occurring alongside broader regional, national and international upheaval.

As Arundhati Roy writes
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.”

Postcards to the Future used postcards as a time capsule to create a bridge between these two worlds, capturing a moment in time, created in this pandemic portal, and stored by DCA, to be posted back into the post pandemic world.

Over 130 people responded to the invitation to  reflect on something they have noticed or learned during the social, cultural and economic changes caused by COVID-19 that they would like to remember and carry forward into a post pandemic world. Participants were mailed postcard packs to document their reflections, which were mailed back to them 12 months later.

Collaboration between Echo Location and Art Out

Collaborators: Art Out

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A video poem created by ethnobotanist Fiona Walsh, using an extract from my poem ‘The Claypans Diaries’, alongside Arrernte language reflections written by Veronica Perurrle and spoken by Kumalie Kngwarreye. 

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