Ⓥ 9.2 Ecological Imaginaries
Tracks
Track 2
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Plaza P6 |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Ms Kate Genevieve
University of Sussex
P: Eco-imaginaries: Creative Practice and Ecological Transformations
3:30 PM - 4:15 PMAbstract
The panel explores creative techniques for growing relations and resilience over long flows of time and space through work with communities, embodying ancient and emergent cultural practices in ways that are woven with the life of the Land.
In nature, flocks embody a dynamic collective unity, a convergence of energy. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, a saying composed by Tumatahina of Te Aupouri goes:
Te kuaka marangaranga, kotahi manu i tau ki te tahuna: tau atu, tau ra.
‘The godwit flock has arisen; one bird has come to rest on the beach: others will follow.’
Ecoimaginaries brings together creative collectives, Indigenous artists and cultural workers, creatives who work closely with the fluid dance of flocks, swarms, soil and mycelia networks, and the interdependence of peoples. Panelists consider how plural imaginings of creative technologies serve vital and more-than-human ecologies - from seed archives growing protected commons in germplasm, to digital embodied networks for community knowledge, and transcultural media art installations connecting with trees and migrating birds. Emphasising that technologies, as much as animal ecologies, are expressions of place and specific locales, our focus is to learn from long-term ecological engagements across communities, art and alternative technology cultures working for eco-social transformations.
Ecoimaginaries is designed with communities and collectives who are working with the land to grow ecologies of creative practice, imaginative activism and the new commons in deep connection with Indigenous perspectives.
In nature, flocks embody a dynamic collective unity, a convergence of energy. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, a saying composed by Tumatahina of Te Aupouri goes:
Te kuaka marangaranga, kotahi manu i tau ki te tahuna: tau atu, tau ra.
‘The godwit flock has arisen; one bird has come to rest on the beach: others will follow.’
Ecoimaginaries brings together creative collectives, Indigenous artists and cultural workers, creatives who work closely with the fluid dance of flocks, swarms, soil and mycelia networks, and the interdependence of peoples. Panelists consider how plural imaginings of creative technologies serve vital and more-than-human ecologies - from seed archives growing protected commons in germplasm, to digital embodied networks for community knowledge, and transcultural media art installations connecting with trees and migrating birds. Emphasising that technologies, as much as animal ecologies, are expressions of place and specific locales, our focus is to learn from long-term ecological engagements across communities, art and alternative technology cultures working for eco-social transformations.
Ecoimaginaries is designed with communities and collectives who are working with the land to grow ecologies of creative practice, imaginative activism and the new commons in deep connection with Indigenous perspectives.
Biography
Kate Genevieve, a London-born artist and researcher now living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, directs chroma.space studio. Her practice-based research, education and curating work explore the strange entanglements of inner and outer space. She developed and directed the Ecoimaginaries and Cosmoimaginaries themes for a hybrid programme at Schumacher College, UK. This work now continues with Intercreate Aotearoa.
Dr Leah Barclay
Discipline Lead of Design
University of the Sunshine Coast
Panelist
Biography
Leah Barclay is an Australian sound artist, composer and researcher known for acoustic ecology, environmental field recording, sound walks. She is the president of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and is currently a research fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium.
Mrs Jean Yern
Artist
Intercreate NZL
Panelist
Biography
Jean Yern (Ngāti Tamaoho) is an artist with a Bachelor of Arts in Māori and Indigenous studies at Waikato University. She works across many mediums responding to themes of identity and belonging through sonic art as exhibited in 2023 at The New Zealand Steel Art Gallery. Assertive in her role as a ringatoi artist seeking out social and cultural visibility of Māori.
Ms Trudy Lane
Intercreate
Panelist
Biography
Trudy Lane is an artist and cultural change maker working to restore wetland and retain shorebird habitat in her home area in an inclusive, community-driven approach where collaborative and creative research projects form core connection points. Artworks have been exhibited at festivals such as Big Torino, Manifesta, Documenta, VIPER, Medi@terra, EMAF, and FILE.
Dr Almendra Cremaschi
Bioleft
Panelist
Biography
Almendra is an agronomist and co-founder of Bioleft, a community laboratory that works with collective intelligence and open knowledge on seed sustainability in Argentina. In leading the Bioleft open seed initiative, her work focuses on sustainability, family farming, and participatory methodologies for the co-production of knowledge. Her research focuses on the new commons, and designing strategies that contribute to growing open spaces for creativity and collaborative innovation.
Professor Danielle Wilde
Umeå University and The University of Southern Denmark
P: SHIT!: (Re)narrating the Holobiont Through Co-creative Art and Design Practices
4:15 PM - 5:00 PMAbstract
This panel explores several creative projects that demonstrate how art and design can make multi-species metabolic landscapes of consumption, digestion and excretion sense-able to humans. We examine embodied and sensual methods that connect matter and situated material and bodily practices across time and space. We discuss human manure composting, heavy metal refining from human faeces, giant holobiont networks, mycoremediating textiles, and collaborative, and multi-species and multi-sensory participatory workshops, positioning bodies as thresholds in metabolic relations where acts of eating are webs that weave community and social relations through intimate and taboo digestive processes.
Biography
Danielle Wilde is professor in Design for Sustainability at Umeå University, Ubmeje Sápmi in the Arctic, where she gathers the Sympoietic Research Collaboratory; and professor in Sustainability Transitions at The University of Southern Denmark, where she leads FoodLab. This joint positioning supports systemic, situated and radically transdisciplinary research centering food as vibrant materiality, leveraging feminist, intersectional, embodied epistemologies, ontologies and geographies in collaboration with Indigenous and non-Indigenous, human and non-human partners. See http://daniellewilde.com
Dr Lucas Ihlein
Senior Lecturer
Lucas Ihlein
Panelist
Biography
Lucas Ihlein is an artist who likes working with farmers and soil and inventors of interesting systems. Nearly always, Lucas’ projects are like this: they last several years, lots of collaborators are involved, and everyone bites off more than they can chew, leaving a whole lot of undigested nutrients for months or years afterwards. See http://lucasihlein.net
Associate Professor Lindsay Kelley
The Australian National University
Panelist
Biography
Working in the kitchen, Lindsay Kelley’s art practice and scholarship explore how the experience of eating changes when technologies are being eaten. Her first book, Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience (London: IB Tauris, 2016, reissued 2022), considers the kitchen as a site of knowledge production for art and science. Her second book, After Eating: Metabolizing the Arts, is forthcoming from MIT Press, anticipated in print in December 2023. The recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2019-2023), she has exhibited and performed internationally, and her published work can be found in journals including parallax, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Angelaki, and Environmental Humanities. Kelley is Associate Professor in Art & Design at the Australian National University.
Ms Alia Parker
Lecturer
Australian National University
Panelist
Biography
Alia Parker is a transdisciplinary designer and researcher. Her creative practice and scholarship is concerned with the intersection of contemporary design and science investigating the ethical, relational and material possibilities that arise when working with more-than-human organisms in design contexts. Parker’s critical bio-design practice employs experimental methodologies in textiles, fashion, biology, installation and moving image, underpinned by posthuman ethics, philosophies of care and biosemiotics. She has exhibited and presented her work widely at significant national design institutions and events such as Sydney Design Festival, Melbourne Design Festival, the Museum of Applied Arts and Science and the Australian Design Centre. Parker is a current Scientia PhD scholar (UNSW) and is a Lecturer in Design at the Australian National University. See www.aliajaneparker.com.
Dr Helen Pynor
Artist and Researcher
Independent Artist
Panelist
Biography
Helen Pynor is an interdisciplinary Artist and Researcher whose practice explores philosophically and experientially ambiguous zones, such as the life-death boundary and the intersubjective nature of organ transplantation. Pynor works with living and ‘semi-living’ cells, organs and biomolecules, and in a recent work her own surgically excised bone material. Pynor frequently undertakes in-depth residencies in scientific and clinical institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden; Francis Crick Institute, London; Heart and Lung Transplant Unit, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney; and SymbioticA, Perth. Pynor’s work has been exhibited widely internationally including at ZKM Center for Art and Media | Karlsruhe; Experimenta International Triennial of Media Art, Australia; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Beijing Media Art Biennale; FACT, Liverpool UK; Science Gallery Dublin; Science Gallery London; and ISEA. Pynor has received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica, and national awards in Australia.
Session chair
Deirdre Feeney
University of South Australia
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