Carrie Radzevicius: Delicious Paradox
December 4, 2025 - February 1, 2026
Opening launch December 4 at 6-8pm
Gunderson and Holling’s (2002) adaptive resilience theory argues that resilient communities achieve stability through a process of constant change, a phenomena they refer to as a ‘delicious paradox’ (43). Delicious Paradox offers a real-time application of this theory by exploring the flux between stability and change. Everyday household objects and sounds become fodder in this wider ecological, social and artistic experiment creating a space that references both ecology, place, community and the individual. The result is a multi-sensory, immersive and limitless experience offers a new lens by which to consider the wider applications of resilience to everyday life.
Gunderson and Holling describe adaptive resilience cycles as a harmonious (delicious!) blending of perceived opposites. Delicious Paradox extends this theory to a test of nature versus art: how can these cycles exist in the context of creative practice. This concept also contributes towards the growing discourse to abolish philosophical and theoretical boundaries between nature and culture, argued by John Dewey (1934), Bruno Latour (1993) and Felix Guattari (2000), among others. The blending of ecological theory and contemporary art offers a further blurring of the nature/culture binary, a debunking of perceived opposites and suggests an opportunity to explore the symbiosis between science and art.
Delicious Paradox applies an adaptive resilience model based on the research of ecologists CS Holling (1973, 2002) and Lance Gunderson (2002), blending resilience theory with contemporary creative process through seemingly continuous cycles of construction, stabilisation, deconstruction and reorganisation. It is an ambitious concept comprising one single channel film installation, a separate six-channel HD film and sound installation, layered digital photography works, film stills and a participatory stop motion project. The resulting works reflects the messy, weird, complicated and beautiful connections between nature and culture, as well as the power of novelty, innovation and memory to evoke resilience during a period of unprecedented disturbance and instability.
Carrie Radzevicius bio
Carrie Radzevicius (she/her) is a dual American and Australian living in Meanjin (Brisbane). With multi- and inter-disciplinary interests in moving image, stop-motion, expanded drawing, ecology, systems thinking, community engagement and sound, her creative practice focuses on elevating everyday objects and materials through accessible, inclusive and collaborative processes. Her experimental approach celebrates the intrinsic link between art and science while fostering deep connections to place. Carrie also brings several years of community engagement experience to deliver public programs that encourage creative innovation, community interaction, wellbeing and civic engagement. Through her works and program delivery she aims to offer viewers and participants empowering experiences that spark compassion, empathy and understanding.