Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces
Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces: Performance-Ritual in coastal Portugal (Portuguese below; link to film here) This project is a performance-ritual on the Portuguese coast that aims to provide illustrative and embodied material about the role of oceanic interfaces as sites for recovering […]
Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound
Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound is an 8-channel sonic composition that explores the possibility that sound is an ideal medium for translating senses of smell, or chemosensation underwater.It invites the listener to smell the kelp forest with their ears, a mode of synaesthesia. We explore the […]
Blue Dreams – Exhibition
Blue Dreams Blue Dreams is an immersive video installation which integrates abstract imagery, deep sea video footage, and computer modeling to portray the resilience of our planet’s smallest yet most vital living systems. Microbial networks thrive in these extreme environments and are essential to the functioning of our planet: they produce the air we breathe, regulate […]
Sensing the Abyss: Immersive Scores for Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Sensing the Abyss: Immersive Scores for Interdisciplinary Improvisation This project is a multi-stage experimentation with ocean memory, featuring an interdisciplinary residency and performance as the primary creative research space and point of departure. Rajna Swaminathan’s Mangal ensemble gathers improvising musicians alongside visual and movement artists to experiment with the concept of a “score”– whether it […]
Journeys Through Water – Exhibition
Journeys Through Water – Exhibition Nov 17, 2021, to June 21, 2022 Onboard the RV Rachel Carson, members of the Ocean Memory Project engaged in research at the interface of art and science to begin to understand how the effects of environmental changes are recorded and expressed in ocean memories. The four artists on the […]