London-based art collective and 2010 Turner Prize nominees The Otolith Group presented their work for the first time in New Zealand at the Adam Art Gallery. Their trilogy of film works and book project A Long Time Between Suns sympathetically re-orientates our perception of history by treating the past as an archival resource to re-envisage the future. Theirs is no utopian imagining, but a sceptical image of a ‘global’ future built from a disjuncture of sounds and images that tap into ideas of futurity and trans-national histories.

The Otolith Group was founded in 2002 by Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar. Their collaborative and discursive practice questions the nature of documentary history across time by using material found within a range of disciplines, in particular the moving image.

This exhibition was staged concurrently with Object Lessons: A Musical Fiction.