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A Millennia of Seepage

Amelia Hine






A Millennia of Seepage is a three-part film exploring a speculative more-than-human underground. The series expands current work in subterranean geopolitics that pays attention to volumetric geographies and accumulation and dispossession below the earth’s surface. It takes up the challenge of building a visual vocabulary of the underground while sidestepping visioning technologies commonly used by extractive industries to ‘see’ below the surface. Such technologies apply a ‘geologizing’ intelligibility over the subterranean to make it useful to the state project. In testing an alternative method for seeing below ground this series uses collage to construct a lively and richly populated subsurface.



Amelia Hine is a postdoctoral researcher in the QUT Business School. Her current research focuses on understanding the drivers and networks behind stakeholder engagement in mining projects to better understand how differing stakeholder perspectives emerge. She has a particular interest in the making and un-making of extractive landscapes, and in understanding nonhuman contributions to landscape alterations. Amelia’s background is in design and museum studies, and she has an ongoing professional practice as an artist and visual communicator.

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