Raoni Muzho & Phoebe Osborne

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Climate Imaginaries

Climate Imaginaries at Sea

3 episodes

7 months ago

Climate Imaginaries at Sea speculates possible futures in and around water through various artistic and participatory research practices. Three collaborating research groups bring the project forward: Art & Spatial Praxis at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (GRA), the Lectorate of the Academy of Theatre and Dance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS).

The research groups work in partnership with ARIAS, a platform for artistic research in Amsterdam, and a network of partners that includes Tolhuistuin, the Institute for Sound & Vision and CoECI – Centre of Expertise for Creative Innovation.Starting in 2023, three newly developed artistic research studios will invite artists to develop artistic imaginaries that address rising sea levels. The artistic research studios will pay particular attention to perspectives often missing from mainstream climate change debates: material, indigenous, and interspecies inquiry.

Each studio will work without predetermined disciplinary boundaries through practice-led artistic research and written and non-textual forms such as installations, sounds, movements, images and objects. In addition, students will be actively involved in the research by developing imaginative engagements with rising sea levels as both a future prospect and a present reality in various parts of the world.Imagining the future of climate change is crucial for accepting change, whether in our personal lives, environment or politics. As the author Amitav Ghosh points out, “the climate crisis is also a crisis of the imagination.” Who has the privilege to imagine the future of climate change, and for whom are its effects already present? Acknowledging an unequal present where rising sea levels affect low-income populations and people of colour the hardest is crucial, as those communities are also the most vulnerable and the ones with the lowest amount of emissions responsible for the climate crisis.

The questions leading the studios are:

How can artists connect people to indigenous water and climate knowledges across multiple cultural perspectives where the consequences of rising sea levels are already a reality in the present?
How can we understand the impact of rising sea levels in relation to housing, clothing and soil through material artistic research?
How can interspecies imaginaries help form different relationships with rising seas beyond considering them as merely a threat?

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How can artists connect people to indigenous water and climate knowledges across multiple cultural perspectives where the consequences of rising sea levels are already a reality in the present?
How can we understand the impact of rising sea levels in relation to housing, clothing and soil through material artistic research?
How can interspecies imaginaries help form different relationships with rising seas beyond considering them as merely a threat?

Performing Arts

Arts

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Raoni Muzho & Phoebe Osborne

Climate Imaginaries

1 hour 4 minutes

1 year ago

Raoni Muzho & Phoebe Osborne

This second episode of the Climate Imaginaries podcast was recorded over zoom in October 2023. The three artists you hear speaking in the episode, Phoebe Osborne, Raoni Muzho, and Rajni Shah, had a long slow dialogue leading up to this conversation, creating a shared map (linked below) which could be with them as they spoke. Grief and loss were present in different forms throughout the process of meeting, postponing, and then recording this conversation, and there is a strong current of grief in relation to Palestine that flows through the episode.

This episode comes in two parts. We invite you to begin listening by engaging with a continuous sighing practice offered by Raoni Muzho Saleh, before listening to the full episode. However, we have included them as separate recordings so that you can choose when and how you listen. The conversation itself lasts about an hour, and embraces non-linearity. We invite you to let go of expectations, and allow yourself to slow into the listening.

Acknowledgments and credits
The sounds of fire in this episode were recorded at Mile Island on Morrison Lake, located near Bracebridge, Ontario, on the traditional lands of the Huron-Wendat of Wendake, the Anishinaabeg, and specifically the Ojibway/Chippewa peoples. This territory is covered by the Robinson-Huron Treaty No. 61.

Light waves heard in this episode are the sounds of the waters of Gichi-aazhoogami-gichigami (Lake Huron), recorded at Singing Sands on the west of the Saugeen Peninsula (Bruce Peninsula National Park, Ontario). These are the traditional lands and waters of the Anishinaabeg, and specifically the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, and the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaty No. 72.

The recording of the ocean at the end of the episode was made at Reserva Eco-Arqueologica Punta Cometa (Punta Cometa Eco-archaological Reserve) of Mazunte, Oaxaca (Mexico), September 29 2022, 5pm. Also known as ‘el Cerro Sagrado’ (’sacred hill’), this landscape is situated on Zapotec lands and cared for by local community who have advanced initiatives to preserve it, registering it officially as an archaeological site in 2017.

All recordings were made by Fili 周 Gibbons with care and respect for the lands, waters, winds, trees, and creatures being recorded.

Shared map created by Phoebe, Rajni, and Raoni.
https://www.climateimaginariesatsea.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/phoebe-rajni-raoni-map.pdf

The book Trans Care mentioned by Phoebe at the end of the episode can be found here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/trans-care

This podcast is part of the project Climate Imaginaries led by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Sabine Niederer, and Patricia de Vries. With thank to Andy Dockett for web and technical assistance. Climate Imaginaries is part of the Art Route NWA-project ‘Bit by bit, or not at all’ financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and an Imagination Laboratory within the SPRONG project Imagination in Transitions. It is also made possible with the support of Centre of Expertise for Creative Innovation (CoECI) in Amsterdam. Editing, mixing, sound design, and cello by Fili 周 Gibbons and Studio Apothicaire Contributors: Raoni Muzho Saleh, Phoebe/Phoebus Osborne Conversations hosted by Rajni Shah, and edited by Rajni Shah and Fili 周 Gibbons

Brief biographies Fili 周 Gibbons (we/them/us) are a musician, sound designer, and audiovisual recordist working across a range of community and professional contexts to support plural voices, expressions, and sonic experiences. As well as leading...

Climate Imaginaries

How can artists connect people to indigenous water and climate knowledges across multiple cultural perspectives where the consequences of rising sea levels are already a reality in the present?
How can we understand the impact of rising sea levels in relation to housing, clothing and soil through material artistic research?
How can interspecies imaginaries help form different relationships with rising seas beyond considering them as merely a threat?