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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More Projects

Here We Are was an experiment in mapping and storytelling, using mail art and cyanotypes to memorialise people’s experience of social distancing under COVID19.

In 2018 I worked with Lock the Gate as a producer on  ‘Adapting the Arts’, a project building the capacity of artists in mining affected communities through developmental commissions and workshops.

In 2012 I had the honour of being invited to collaborate with textile artist Nicky Shonkala as part of her common threads project exploring the intersections between art and craft.