Senses Submerged
Senses Submerged The Senses and Sensing workshop asked the OM community to think about senses in the context of ocean memory, but for many of us in the community, our own underwater embodied experience is limited. In our conversations, divers in the community could speak more concretely about their personal understanding of being in the […]
The Ocean Memory Cabaret
The Ocean Memory Cabaret The Ocean Memory Cabaret is a series of public events that bring together artists, researchers, advocates, educators and elders to share stories, science and artwork that reckons with and revels in the wisdom and wonder of the ocean – her memories, current realities and future possibilities. Imagine an evening of 10-15 […]
Descent & Transformation
Team Leader: Descent & Transformation A condition of Blackness is that it functions within the realm of the impossible, exceeding limitations via crucial strategies of fugitivity and adaptability. Frank B. Wilderson III, Black studies theoretician and author of the recently published “Afropessimism” notes that the classification of humanity has always kept certain lives outside of […]
Ocean Being[s]
Ocean Being[s] This triptych, ocean being[s], is an Ocean Memory reflection co-created by Anya Yermakova and Daniel Kohn, stemming from their experience in the Salish Sea in fall 2019, and weaving through those seeds’ development within the Ocean Memory Project through 2020 and 2021. Substrate began with a watercolor video seeking to evoke the movement […]
Out of the Darkness
Out of the Darkness Out of the Darkness, a year-long exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art, was part of Rutstein’s tenure as the 2018-19 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding at the University of Georgia, an annual award given to leading global scholars and creative thinkers who conceive and produce ground breaking collaborative works with University […]