Amanda Loomes PPLG exhibits her video work Whole in international group exhibition Extraction Echoes. 26 August – 7 September 2025
Extraction Echoes brings together video work from Indonesia and the UK to explore the histories and contemporaneities of extraction.
Extraction Echoes is a partnership between Videocity, an international curator-artist network promoting video art in public spaces, and Forum Sudutpandang, a non-profit organisation supporting artists in Palu Indonesia. Extraction Echoes is supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture grant programme.
The exhibition is an invitation to reflect on the complex relations surrounding extraction in the UK and Indonesian socio-cultural-geographical contexts. From the depletion of natural resources and the heritage of coal mining to folk tales, the range of artistic positions invites us to reflect on our past, current and potential relationships with nature, whether harmonious, destructive or in an interlaced in- between.
As landscapes are continuously modified by human intervention and the digital is becoming a global site of extraction, where each interaction has material consequences, the entanglement between humans and our environments cannot be ignored. Drawing threads across spatial and temporal distances, the videos question this myriad of complex relations opening up the possibility of new beginnings. How can we rebuild a broken kinship?
Artists: Amanda Loomes, Kristo Robot, Jazmin Morris and Chris Tegho, Sarah Adilah, Sel MacLean, Vania Qanita Damayanti.
Curators: Polina Chizhova, Rahmadiyah Tria Gayathri, Chiara Giardi, Muhammad Rizki
Exhibition dates:
Tyneside Bar Cafe, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle: 26.08 – 7.09.2025
Kongsi 8, Jakarta, Indonesia: 6.09 – 28.09.2025
Marlah! Hub, Palu, Indonesia: 8.09. – 18.09.2025
Find out more here.
Tyneside Cinema
10 Pilgrim St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6QG Newcastle, UK
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 11:00–21:00
Whole is an experimental documentary that exposes the labour of people who work in the sandpits at Moorhouse quarry. Non-linear video editing reflects the repetitive process of sand extraction and draws attention to the beauty and complexity within this industrial workplace. Touching on our relationship to the extracted material, Whole considers the dispersal and imaginative potential of the sandpits. The film was made with workers at the quarry and was commissioned by Surrey Hills Arts.
Amanda collaborates with communities to make film and audio works that consider collective human endeavour. She wonders what future societies will make of us.
