Raise the Alarm
— a presentation at 2025 Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Futures (SAEF) Conference

Raise the Alarm is a deep listening and deep viewing platform for the presentation of sound and screen-based works from interdisciplinary artists who make art in response to the natural world and the climate emergency.

The project explores the various ways in which artworks referencing themes and concerns for the environment manifest and speak to audiences.  The artists presented as part of Raise the Alarm make works that invite us to open our eyes, ears and minds, to actively understand what nature is communicating to us. 

Illustrating that artists are in a unique position to reflect and contextualise the world and to make us think deeply about its wonders and its fragility — the programme includes moving image works by Mella Shaw (Sounding Line),  Hanna Tuulikki (Seals’kin), Ross Little (Mìle Dorcha | The Dark Mile), David Harradine (It’s the Skin You’re Living In) and Ong Kian Peng (Disaster-free), as well as a a sound only work by Genevieve Lacey (Breathing Space), and a conversation between Genevieve and Professor Steven Chown.

Raise the Alarm explores our environmental and cultural engagements and predicaments and demonstrates how artists are developing and extending the application of these concepts in their practices, to reflect one of the major concerns of our time. 

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3 - 5 June 2025 | Raise the Alarm @ 2025 SAEF Conference | David Li Sound Gallery, Monash University

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This iteration of Raise the Alarm has been supported by SAEF — Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future — a research programme dedicated to the conservation of the Antarctic.