Map of an Abandoned Beaver Dam
Archeological survey of an abandoned beaver dam, led by Melissa Memory during the Ensayo #2 residency at Estancia Vicuña, Karukinka Natural Park, Tierra del Fuego in January, 2013. … Keep Reading
Three Miami Thinkers Take On Beavers At The End Of The World
By Nathaniel Sandler for WLRN In 1946, a bizarre cargo shipment stopped over at the Pan American Airlines headquarters in Miami. En route to Tierra del Fuego, the southern most tip of South America, fifty North American Beavers were temporarily housed in a walk-in refrigerator… … Keep Reading
Ensayo #2 – Ushuaia to Vicuña
WHEN 10-21 January, 2013 WHAT Camila Marambio, Christy Gast, Melissa Memory and Laura Ogden meet in Buenos Aires, then travel together to Ushuaia, Argentina, where they spend a period of 10 days staying at the Argentine Center of Scientific Research (CADIC). From there they travel… … Keep Reading
Notas sobre la personalidad de animales de agua
By Melissa Memory for La Panera … Keep Reading
A Poem, a Presentation
Melissa Memory’s presentation during the first Ensayo: For much of the history of humans, People have used the landscapes around them to achieve their own ends. As people began to build cities, the wild places disappeared within and along the edges. Until all of the… … Keep Reading
Ensayo #1 – The First Residency
Invited by the curator Camila Marambio, 18 artists and scientists from Chile, Norway, US and Canada met in Tierra del Fuego for 10 days to discuss the “use” of bringing artists and social scientists into the research program at Karukinka Natural Park, a Wildlife Conservation… … Keep Reading