Relationships with things we eat 2017. Speaker: Megan Cope. Video recording: Lisa Roberts. At Manly Museum and Art Gallery, Sunday 19th February. Part of 'Ku-ring-gai pH' Art & Science Project initiated by Susan Milne through Eramboo Artist Environment.

Relationships with things we eat

Artist Megan Cope is a Quandamooka woman (North Stradbroke Island) in South East Queensland. Here she explains how she collaborated with scientist Roberta Johnson to co-create an installation of a melting midden. Their installation embodies physical and personal transformations; transformations in nature with our massive burning of fossil fuels, with consequent thermal expansion, sea level rise and oceans becoming more acid; personal transformations in the co-creators themselves as they share different knowledge of disruption to natural cycles of climate, and changing relationships between people and creatures of the sea that have sustained Aboriginal Australians for tens of thousands of years.

 

2022
Barkindji
River story
2020
Rituals
Feedback loops
2020
Spirits make noise
Whale song science
2019
Antarctic flows
Rivers of ice
2017
Relationships with things we eat
Antarctica is melting
2016
Creativity
Conversations with nature
2012
Oceanic Living Data
Terrestrial and marine dance

 

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