In Hive’s new exhibition, takayna Sonata, artist Darryl Rogers and the Soma Lumia collective explore the sublime beauty and tenuous plight of the Tarkine Rainforest (takayna) – the second largest cool temperate rainforest on the planet – through video art and virtual reality.

This includes takayna Anthropocene Blues, a hybrid immersive and virtual reality experience by Soma Lumia, of the Tarkine Rainforest, complete with an interactive soundtrack by Jim Moginie from acclaimed Australian band, Midnight Oil. Through this and the other works in the exhibition, they seek to evoke the Tarkine Rainforest as a vital place of transcendence, while also bringing into focus its ongoing desecration.

Darryl Rogers works with video, installation, augmented and virtual reality in order to question the nature of time and matter to understand what actually matters. He is also part of Soma Lumia, a hybrid media-based Tasmanian tech/art collective also consisting of Troy Merritt and James Riggall,  that creates experiences to show what it means to be human on this fragile and precious planet.