Introduction: Lisa Roberts, Sydney 2022

Lunar Time is about relationships that make us who we are. The project began with the 2010 animated scientific publication about the mating behaviour of Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill) and evolved through the Living Data program that brought together scientists and artists to combine their ways of knowing.

"Antarctic krill" signifies both an individual and a super-organism and so Lunar Time reflects both individual and collective voices.

As our planet spirals through a pandemic and mass extinction Lunar Time shapes up as a combined memoir of more than human entities that make us who we are.

Studio of the Air is for yarning and doing stuff

Stories come from:

Bodies that express through art;
Places where knowledge comes from;
Minds that think in different ways.

Together the stories offer a holistic view of relationships that sustain life.

I selected, co-created and arranged stories to promote understandings needed to enable Treaties - agreements people make to live well together. Some stories contribute to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPPC) reports, for example through MEASO Living Data and the paper, Enabling Enduring Evidence-Based Policy for the Southern Ocean Through Cultural Arts Practices.

Lunar Time is seeded with Antarctic Animation and Living Data.

 

The project has evolved through reciprocity; stories are shared for the common good and come with links to contributing authors so that people may learn more directly from them.

 

Site Map by Eav Brennan, 2021

 

 

Infographic: with Katherina Petrou and Claire Sives

 

"...I love that this project travels, physically and virtually, and the whole metaphor of travel as migratory patterns that are kind of linear but not, as well. To my mind it's like a wonderful Ven diagram where everything overlaps and stories change."

Tiriki Onus 2020

 

"The only sustainable way to store data long-term is within relationships - deep connections between generations of people in custodial relationships to a sentient landscape, all grounded in an oral tradition… Oral traditions grounded in profound relationships represent a way of thinking that backs up your knowledge in biological peer-to-peer networks and provides a firewall against dictators who may decide to burn down your libraries."

Tyson Yunkaporta Sandtalk. 2019

 

Interactive design and programming is created with content provided by many people who are acknowledged throughout the site.