Recipes For Earthly Survival
Recipes for Earthly Survival was a performance lecture given during the Water Bodies School for Evolution at the Whitstable Biennale 2018. The text was inspired by research into human-algae carbon cycles and Donna Haraway’s theory of multi species entanglement. The performance was followed by a participatory workshop where the audience were invited to create their own recipes using a range of ingredients from ocean ecology.
The text is published in the Whitstable Biennale Journal here
Sargassum Soup & Rise Tiding
Sargassum Soup was a collaborative installation and performance devised around sharing a foraged meal of seaweed soup. The installation was shown at the Horsebridge Arts Centre and invited audiences to listen to seaweed in different states of preparation for inclusion in the soup, which was divided between buckets containing either freshly foraged, washed or drained seaweed. Audience members could also participate in preparing and cooking the soup, later shared on the beach at Whitstable. Rise Tiding was a durational site-specific dance performance, moving in response to wind and water currents, exploring bodyweather practice. Both works were devised and performed with the Water Bodies collective during the School for Evolution LADA DIY in August 2017.
Water Bodies is: Tuuli Malla, Xavier Velastin, Zoe Czvada Redo, Sarah Blissett, Anna Clock, Julian Weaver, Ifor Duncan, Sarah-Jane Moloney, Rosie Lonsdale, Hector Dyer and others.
This group of artists, writers, musicians, researchers and performers gathered in Whitstable in 2017 for an ‘open-ended practical symposium, on land and in water, for adapting to life on an inundated planet.’ Inspired by accelerationism, hydrofeminism, science fiction, afrofuturism, mythology, and sea mammals’ evolution millions of years ago, Water Bodies explore strategies for living in and with water, with participants ‘evolving’ into aquatic life forms using movement practices, underwater acoustics and environmental research.
More can be found about the Water Bodies here
Photo credits Rosie Lonsdale & Sarah Blissett