Full Description
Addressing one of the urgent issues of climate crisis and environmental pollution, this book explores our relationship to the sea: how we live alongside it, our bodily relationship to it, its role in the creation of a connected, global society and, perhaps most critically, the threat we pose to it.
Through a broad selection of works by contemporary international artists, Can the Seas Survive Us? responds to the urgent need to resuscitate our seas. While the oceanic environment is essential to all life, its vulnerability to human action is highlighted by an ever-increasing loss of biodiversity. This book prompts the reader to imagine a future in which collective human behaviour can mitigate the effects of climate change. As ocean temperatures reach record highs, it is clear that time is not on our side. This ambitious project aspires to accelerate climate awareness and deliver the critical climate action we urgently need.
Contents
FOREWORD
Jago Cooper 6
INTRODUCTION
John Kenneth Paranada 9
FLUID LINES: CHARTING CHANGE
AND CHANGING CHARTS
Djoeke van Netten 25
SOUNDING THE UNKNOWN:
WATERS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Soren Brothers 33
REDRAWING THE LINE
Andrew Watkinson 43
'THE LEAVING OF KATTEGAT SEA
(OR THE MERMEN'S LAMENT)'
Harun Morrison 53
'THE IMAGE OF ETERNITY':
DEEP TIME, POWER
AND VULNERABILITY
IN REPRESENTATIONS OF
SEAS AND OCEANS
Courtney Traub 56
TIPPING POINTS: PAUSING THE
UNSTOPPABLE IN THE WORK OF
MAGGI HAMBLING, CLAIRE CANSICK
AND MARGARET MELLIS
Antonia Blocker 68
'SELKIE SONG'
Harun Morrison 77
A SEA OF RESILIENCE:
OCEANIC (IN)VISIBILITY
Karen Jacobs 80
THE EVOLUTION OF
PARADISE CAMP
Yuki Kihara in conversation with
Tania Moore 95
ESTUARINE
Patrick Flores 105
SEA INSIDE: ART AND
MARINE INTERIORITY
Pandora Syperek and Sarah Wade 116
'THE GHOST WHALES'
Harun Morrison 132
Acknowledgements 137
Author Biographies 141
Picture Credits 147
Notes 148
Index 157
