Task Eternal

Tracing humanity’s enduring quest to defy gravity, take flight and journey into the sky, Task Eternal explores ideas, ambitions and innovations through time and space.

It brings together the work of scientists, engineers, designers and artists from across Australia and the world to Parramatta, in one of the most ambitious aerospace exhibitions ever staged.

Task Eternal also expands understandings of our cultural relationship with the sky and considers how humanity navigates its future in space ethically and collectively. The exhibition is punctuated by First Nations Sky Knowledges, including Yolŋu cosmologies, celestial navigation and boomerang flight, acknowledging enduring and sophisticated systems of knowledge and ancestral technologies.

The exhibition’s design led by OPEN Architecture draws inspiration from Ted Chiang’s science fiction short story ‘The Tower of Babylon’ for an ascending journey through 4 acts: Skyward, Power, Off-Earth and The Return.

Task Eternal is a voyage shaped by human curiosity, collective ambition and the desire to move beyond the limits of Earth. In returning once more to ground, visitors share in the experience of countless aeronauts before them — carrying forward new and expanded perspectives.