On May 8th, the project “Dialogues across the Seas” was presented in a panel at the alla XXIV edition of Festival Internacional de la Imagen, in Manizales, Colombia. Nina Czegledy and Roberta Buiani were present, while Tracey M. Benson, Pasha Mahuto’oa Clothier, Elena Giulia Rossi and myself intervened via video. The meeting was also available in streaming.
The title of the 24th edition of the festival was “Re:generative”:
The theme of the 24th edition is “Re:generative,” a concept that relates to the sustainability of living species. In a context of profound changes and transformations, the regenerative emerges as an alternative to restore, renew, or rebuild lost or invisible memories. From the perspective of sustainability, it implies thinking about actions that ensure survival as a vital matter for its re-existence.
Below is the abstract we presented, which brought together the contributions of all the authors:
The project “art*science – Art & Climate Change”, started in 2018 in Cervia (ITA) with a conference and exhibition titled “Dialogues across the Seas. The Ocean that keeps us apart also joins us.” Our goal was to explore how ecosystems and life forms, including humans and non-humans, animate and inanimate actors, are inextricably interconnected and entangled. Together, we sought to highlight the endless “dialogues” that intimately implicate all beings, at any levels, dimensions, and distances, through a series of tangible research interventions at the intersection of art and science: this included conferences, exhibitions, workshops, education events, book publications and a forthcoming series of small art booklets reflecting on environment transformations and on their consequences. With the current contribution, we continue our exploration of climate transformation through five different connected perspectives: we discuss the “Language of climate change” as a fluid interface revealing the entanglement between language, matter, agency, and the whole; the fluid intersecting of economy and ecology in communities affected by climate change events; the resonances between traditional knowledge and scientific observations, and between relational knowledge, connection and communion across places, people (human and more-than-human) and the Sacred. The common denominator of these interventions is water, the ocean and the sea broadly understood and the populations of humans and non-humans connected through their fluidity and living in their proximity.
Keywords
Navigation tradition, diffraction, data, interdisciplinary, intercultural, Oceans, agency, trust, fluidity, community co-creating, open knowledge
The video with all the presentations can be seen here: