Comadreo Pacífico – Ensayo #4
WHAT An Indigenous-led comadreo among women who carry memories, knowledge and practices of care for coastal territories on the east coast of Australia, Pacific Islands, Aotearoa, Perú and Chile. Ensayo #4 defines a comadreo as a non-hierarchical, humorous, tender and creative practice of co-mothering, allowing… … Keep Reading
Magnetic Isle Connect – Ensayo #4
WHEN September 10 – 28, 2019 WHAT After the opening of our exhibition, Everything is Possibly an Oracle, we headed to the central highlands, traversing thirsty country on high fire alert. Guided by our friend, Dale Harding, we accepted an invitation from Carol and Trent… … Keep Reading
Minjerribah and Canaipa – Ensayo #4
WHEN August 23-28, 2019 WHAT Ensayistas met in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), where collaborator Caitlin Franzmann is based, for a mobile residency on the coastal islands in Quandamooka Country (Moreton Bay and islands) in southeast Queensland. After visiting the exhibition Seeing Country at Redland Art Gallery,… … Keep Reading
On Art and Laws
Randi Nygård of Ensayo #4 has published an essay on the Norwegian platform Artica Writings that contemplates the connection between poetry and the law, specifically the Norwegian legal treatise that governs relationships between society and the marine resources. Artica Svalbard’s series Artica Writings aims to… … Keep Reading
Forget-me-not: Environmental Research
While developing the syllabus for “Ensayando Ensayos,” an Art & Ecology course taught by Ensayistas Christy Gast and Camila Marambio for the University of Hartford’s NOMAD Interdisciplinary MFA, we requested that our collaborators and colleagues working in ecology, biology, anthropology, activism, policy management and sociology… … Keep Reading
Sing the Copepod Song
ENSAYOS translated the content of a scientific paper (“Toxic effects of polyethylene terephalate microparticles and Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate on the calanoid copepod, Parvocalanus crassirostris“) into the form of a well-known folk song. The rewrite was undertaken in collaboration with ichthyologist Lynne van Herwerden so that her laboratory’s… … Keep Reading
Microplastics Replacing Phytoplankton at the Base of the Food Web
The laboratory of our host on Magnetic Island, Dr. Lynne van Herwerden of James Cook University, has published a paper explaining the toxic effects of microplastics and plasticizers at the base of the food web. … Keep Reading
Everything is Possibly An Oracle, at Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Exhibition at CARPARK, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Opening: Saturday, 7 September 2019, 5-7pm Closing performance: Saturday, 28 September 2019, 2pm-4pm What if, in times of uncertainty and doubt, we first turned to a rock, a tree, an ant, or the tides as a source of… … Keep Reading
Precarious Symmetry at MADA Gallery, Melbourne
Precarious Symmetry Ariel Bustamante and Carolina Saquel Curated by Camila Marambio as part of the making of the webseries Distancia Exhibition: 17 April – 12 May 2018 Opening: Tuesday 17th April 2018, 6 – 8pm with Artist Talk @ 7pm Precarious Symmetry is a face-off.… … Keep Reading
Más allá del fin, Issue # 3
Published as a joint issue with Discipline No. 5 in September 2019. Excerpts below.
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