Eco Talk: The Sea
Talks curated by Jane Scobie exploring the intersection of art, ecology, and politics within marine environments, held during the MetaNature multimedia exhibition.
Fascism and the Deep: On Leni Riefenstahl’s 'Impressions of the Deep' and Anti-Fascist Submerged Image Practices
Bio: Sonia Levy
Sonia Levy is an artist and research-led filmmaker with a Berber-Polish background. Her work is marked by site-specific inquiries and interdisciplinary collaborations, critically examining Western expansionist and extractive logics and how these frameworks have governed watery worlds. Her practice probes the thresholds that shape and affect the conditions necessary for life to flourish. She is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, School of Architecture. She is a member of the Steering Committee at the UN Ocean Decade Coordination Office on Connecting People and the Ocean.
Bio: Ifor Duncan
Ifor Duncan is a writer, artist and interdisciplinary researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths (@cra_goldsmiths). Ifor’s research focuses on political violence against communities in the contexts of degrading watery spaces, processes, and materialities. He encounters these concerns through visual cultures, cultural memory, and a fieldwork practice that involves submerged audio-visual methods. He was postdoctoral fellow at the New Institute Centre for the Environmental Humanities (NICHE), Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice (2020-22).
The Marine Museum of Lost Potential: Fragility, Discovery, and Loss in Marine Ecosystems
Julie Light is an artist whose creative practice delves into the intersections of body, form and hybridity, whether human or creature. Her work often visualises the nuances of health and disease, exploring how these concepts intertwine in both human and non-human contexts. Using glass as her primary sculptural medium, Julie highlights not only its physical properties but also its capacity to communicate complex ideas. Collaboration is at the heart of Julie's work and she has partnered with organisations such as The Royal Society, the University of Leeds, AstraZeneca UK, and the National Oceanography Centre, as well as with individuals who have compelling stories to share. Her art has been exhibited in diverse venues across the UK and internationally, including galleries, gardens, museums and hospitals. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Contemporary Glass Society.
The Ear of the Sea:
Baring Witness to Coastal Ecologies
Jane Scobie presents research into the strandline, along The Wash in Norfolk, investigating the idea of deposition both in the legal sense of witness and in the geographical sense of laying down sediment. Exploring how the Norfolk coast has been transformed by coastal management strategies focussed on control of the sea, overlooking the essential dynamism and change which nonhuman inhabitants thrive on.
Jane Scobie is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work explores the fluid boundaries between living and non-living matter, the human and the non-human. Jane’s participatory and performative practice challenges species hierarchies and questions our relationship with nonhuman entities, using materials and processes with a low environmental impact. Recent work explores the strandline, a ‘living system’ as material, model and metaphor to understand our relationship with the ocean in the context of climate breakdown.
Forever is Composed of Nows: Kelp Forests and Marine Conservation
Lucy’s current work explores climate, the UK marine environment and health. She is interested in the phenomenological nature of human experience and perception and how this shapes our interactions with the world.
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