TarraWarra Museum of Art today announced the return of its TarraWarra International series – paused during and after the pandemic – with TarraWarra International 2026: System Release, curated by Dr Emily Cormack (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne), who was appointed Head of Exhibitions and Programs at TarraWarra in April 2025.
TarraWarra International 2026: System Release brings together ten artists from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and Mexico who reach into the chaos of global precarity to create new systems of order across a wide range of media. The exhibition proposes a different understanding of order as a kind of friendship with chaos, presenting personal and collective strategies for making sense of a rapidly changing world.
Responding to recent global events that have exposed the vulnerability of civic order, the exhibition challenges the assumption that a so‑called “rules-based order” is what holds society together. It frames collapse as a release, inviting audiences to consider alternative systems of knowledge and ways of being grounded in First Nations thinking, posthumanism, collective intelligence, and more-than-human worldviews.