The artists involved expose and narrate the experience of what it means to be alive in the 21st century through the materiality of matter; drawing on experience, manipulating mineral and metal and making works that are contemplative and meditative. The work places the extraordinary alongside the everyday, harnessing chemical reactions and volcanic ecologies exploring environmental exploitation and the ingestion of raw materials, exposing and creating unseen or new worlds. Their methodologies and mediums are wide-ranging and diverse, encompassing film, performance, ceramics, photography and interactive sculpture. They invite the audience into a world that is texturally and visually tactile, recalling landscapes, objects and ways of living that are precarious and endangered, creating works of art that transgress boundaries and borders.