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Eco Talk: The Sea

Uncovering narratives of the sea

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The Sea Eco TalkIfor Duncan, Sonia Levy, Julie Light, Lucy Chapman
00:00 / 02:24

Presentation on fascism and moving image addressing questions of obfuscation, turbidity and ecological health through their practices and reading of Leni Riefenstahl's late video work Impressions of the Deep (2002).

ifor Duncan & Sonia Levy

Sea Wall: Sea Wall – presentation on research into the strandline, along The Wash, Norfolk, investigating the idea of deposition both in the legal sense of witness, and in the geographical sense of laying down sediment.

Jane
Scobie

Presentation on ongoing collab with the National Oceanography Centre, The Marine Museum of Lost Potential, inspired by research into both the impacts of deep sea mining and ocean creatures as a source of bioactive compounds. 

Julie
LIght

Inspired by the Sussex kelp restoration, Forever is Composed of Nows is a life-sized installation of a kelp forest rendered in cyanotype.

Lucy
Chapman

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 investigating how these frameworks have historically governed and continue transforming 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 and the co-convenor of the collective How Like a Reef. Additionally, she is a member of the Steering Committee at the UN Ocean Decade Coordination Office on Connecting People and the Ocean.

Bio: Sonia Levy

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).

Bio: Julie Light 

Bio: Jane Scobie 

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.

Jane Scobie is a research-led visual artist addressing themes of reparation and the possibility of communication between species in the context of environmental threat. Jane’s research areas include biodiversity, extraction and ocean literacy and explore the fluid boundaries between the organic and inorganic, the human and the nonhuman. Jane has an MA in Art and Science from UAL.

Bio: Lucy Chapman

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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