SABRINA DREAMINGSevern Estuary Tidelands

artist residency at CCRI, 2014

SABRINA DREAMINGSevern Estuary Tidelands

artist residency at CCRI, 2014…

and 2015

‘The Big Picture’

Project Blogsabrinadreaming.blogspot.co.uk

Sabrina Dreaming

Activating the gapBuilding bridges

“An attempt to provide a platform for more diverse involvements, and to explore new transdisciplinary responses to this place”

A geopoetic approach - an interweaving of the rational and the imagination 

futureimaginings/possibilities/re-framings

resisting, challenging

a weaving a tapestry

geological/a tectonic force mycelial, rhizomic

knowing +not-knowing/mystery

bridging the gaps - art, science, environment, technology

creative science and science-based creativity

GEOPOETICS

TIME !

rhizomic/mycelial/weaving

embracing complexity

projects that aim to re-connect people to place and processes

field methods:listening, walking, dialogues, stories

data-augmented intermedia installations(incorporating ‘aliveness machines’)

geopoetic sculptural installation:eco-symbolic materials

Geopoetics + Deep Mapping

“subvert the dominant paradigm”/ empowerment

• Nature - Culture

• Local - Global

• Fixed - Liminal - Fluid

• Past - Present - Future

• Knowledge - Imagination

• Doing - Listening

• Environmental Protection - Mental Protection

• Optimism - Pessimism

Continuum Spectra&

Conversations/ Tensions

“our maps of reality”

“our ways of knowing”

“artist-in-transience?”

Respondent contribution (to Dark Mountain audio)

“… I like his take on climate change as a thing that shapes the way we live and think; I see some parallels with the issue of food security.

There is a terrible urgency to try and find technical and scientific ways in which more food can be produced for more people…Yet the food system is a bit like climate change in that it is getting less sustainable as we produce more, and try to do so in response to population increases. Instead it is really an organisational challenge…

… in terms of the food system, we have gone past the point of no return - past the equivalent of 4 degrees of climate change …That is the food equivalent of climate change. It has happened already and carrying on with its trajectory.

The challenge then, is to organise differently, rather than looking for neat ways to produce more.”

Respondent contribution: (to Dark Mountain audio)

“It is affirming, to hear someone saying things that resonate with many of my experiences and frustrations. It is somewhat age-ing, to conceive of a new generation doing things in such an unbounded way… It is encouraging that this is (apparently) building capacity.  Economics (at least the dominant form) is defunct, and the more people realize that, the better! Value is of course at the root of all of this…my generation is too mired within the conventional structures and processes, and has its hands on the tillers of international, national and corporate power…

We in CCRI should be developing resonance with this new generation. There is a need to bridge the gap between those who care, but who are institutionally embedded within the system…, and those who have chosen to remain ‘independent’ so that they are not overly tainted with the things that they criticise. I found his line much more robust and convincing than the Monbiot ramblings….

Did others who listened think well of him, or were they more cynical?” 

Respondent contribution: (to Dark Mountain audio)

“I'm sorry. I tried, I tried really really hard and I lasted 7 whole minutes and 14 seconds..

I didn’t hate it, but I’d already heard it so many times from environmentalists…

…I may have been hasty but the rhetoric didn’t carry me, in fact it got in the way; [but] if the purpose was to make me think - it has…”

Respondent contribution: (to Dark Mountain audio)

“From my point of view, there aren’t any impermeable boundaries between art, ecology and sciences. Each represent a form of expression which when conducted with purpose resonate with each other.

…I think that the main problem is that ‘we modern rats’ are forgetting what is it to be human. Being human is tough. It’s a constant struggle against many natural instincts in order to be open to elevating inspirations. The instinct says ‘more for you is less for me’ while the inspiration says ‘more for you is more for me’. Take the interest-based monetary system for instance. It is a cruel reality which instead of being questioned and refuted is being praised and adored.”

These 3 photos are all pilgrimages, and all involve tidal situations…

and transformations...

Conceptual Influences on Sabrina Dreaming

“re-invigorate our aspirations and commitment”

“At this rate of decay, the Maralinga lands would be contaminated for the next half-

million years…”

next steps…

Lydney Exhibition Plan etc

Steart+

Minsterworth..?+

rewilding ‘tensions’

Coastal DistinctivenessFilm series + Books..

second team trip+ exhibition

Linking to:’Forgotten Landscape’ Bristol Green Capital

Severn Vision

Centre for Environmental Change ( re. palaeo-ecology etc)

Art & Design

Nexus ideas