OM has changed this writers understanding of time and evolution
Recently curated the Om Cabaret
My connection to the Ocean Memory Project began in 2018 during a retreat at Catalina Island. It was the first time in my life that I ever really talked to Oceanographers that has forever changed my understandings of time and evolution and planetary systems. In the Fall of 2019, I joined a crew of Ocean Memory collaborators on the Rachel Carson R/V for a cruise on the Salish Sea. I had the honor of curating the first ever Ocean Memory Cabaret with OM collaborator Lisa D’Amour, in the Spring of 2021, highlighting the Gulf of Mexico with a spectrum of science and art and reflections. Currently, at the end of the Mississippi River where the Gulf waters meet the estuaries, our collaborative Another Gulf is Possible is partnering with Mondo Bizarro Productions to design, build, experiment and activate the Float Lab, a portable piece of infrastructure that can be adapted to support performance, exhibition, just recovery and educational spaces both on land and on water.
Connected Events
8th Ocean Memory Workshop – In-Person Workshop on Pollution, Forgetting, and Loss in Ocean Systems – UGA
Ocean Memory Research Cruise – Rv Rachel Carson
Monique Verdin
Monique Verdin is an interdisciplinary storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana. She is a citizen of the Houma Nation, director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and a member of the Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative, working to envision just economies, vibrant communities, and sustainable ecologies. She is co-producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love and her work has been included in a variety of environmentally inspired projects, including the multiplatform performance Cry You One, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, and the collaborative book Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations.
CONTACT
Email : moniquemverdin@gmail.com