touchsprings is an exhibition by Ōtepoti Dunedin and Canada-based artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux. Through their research-based, interdisciplinary, and site-responsive approach, Bellamy and Fauteux consider interdependent relationships within living systems.

The title, touchsprings, is a word the artists have coined to describe moments of action that set irreversible and unintended things into motion. Plants and the stories they hold unite the video artworks, installations, and drawings in the exhibition and provide prompts from which to contemplate ways of seeing and relating.

From the invention of kerosene to plant taxonomy, touchsprings brings together significant bodies of work that illuminate the hidden seeds that set things in motion.