https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2020-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556072656591-906IVH790PVKMKEDRA22/salt%2Blake%2Bhaines.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 In May 2018 Forum of Sensory Motion set out on a road trip with a group of diverse artists, performers, photographers and musicians for an interstate, interspecies collaborative art adventure, set in the salty coastal plains of remote South Australia. All colour photos by David Haines, unless otherwise specified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556072656591-906IVH790PVKMKEDRA22/salt%2Blake%2Bhaines.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 In May 2018 Forum of Sensory Motion set out on a road trip with a group of diverse artists, performers, photographers and musicians for an interstate, interspecies collaborative art adventure, set in the salty coastal plains of remote South Australia. All colour photos by David Haines, unless otherwise specified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556072787736-MLQ64M9FSJV1NEDW2SKW/cuttlefish%2BDavid%2BWiltshire.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 This trip, which is set to become an annual pilgrimage, was in honour of these psychedelic shape shifting creatures, the Giant Cuttlefish or Sepia Apama, a fascinating member of the Cephalopod family. Giant cuttlefish, Sepia Apama, can grow to be up to one metre in length and weigh up to 10 kg. They congregate in large numbers in the shallows of Whyalla, South Australia where they put on colourful mating displays, shapeshifting in form, colours, textures and patterns. They use their powers of mimicry to not only impersonate kelp and shells and other sea life for camouflage from predators but the immature males also impersonate females to give them a better chance of mating. Cuttlefish have 3 hearts, a large brain and oversized eyes, and these characteristics along with their impressive appearance changing abilities, give them an alien intelligence; advanced abilities that are beyond our realms of comprehension. image by Scott Portelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073093697-LCKBYUWPT075FL9JJ1EZ/cameron-robbins-dissipative-structures-still-mona-01+%281%29.jpeg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 For 2018, Forum of Sensory Motion was delighted to be accompanied on this self initiated, informal travelling art residency by an incredible group of friends and contemporaries including Cameron Robbins (Field Lines by Cameron Robbins pictured above), Brodie Ellis, Joan Ross, Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, Liquid Architecture curator Danni Zuvela, photgrapher Keelan O’Hehir, performance artist Jason Hood, Melbourne electronic composer Jannah Quill and Chilean musician Elisita Punto. Many of these artists use nature and its elements as inspiration and source materials and are directly informed by scientific principles in their practise. The outcome of this trip was to simply gather knowledge in the field and to give ourselves over to being amateur marine biologists, while being immersed in an incredible super sensory performance. The group experience of this adventure, however, will also inevitably lead to future collaborations and hopefully some psychedelic art and music that our underwater alien friends would recognise as an extension of their beings! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556072869763-8I46FC6VVRZAW86ZDXB7/camp%2Bdinner.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Showing cuttlefish like adaptability, the joyously adventurous 2018 crew are seen here cooking a camp dinner for a large group in the dark, deep in The Coorong on night one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073202080-WVWICJ7IFQG3Z63ST80J/cuttlefish%2Bbone%2Bohehir.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 A large cuttlefish bone found on the beach at night in The Coorong on the way to Whyalla- a sign we were getting close. Cuttlebones are used for controlling buoyancy by the Cuttlefish allowing them to move in multiple directions throughout the water. This adds to their impressive roster of adaptive skills. Cuttlebones have also been used for eons by jewellers as a metal casting material. All black and white photos by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556072933758-NLS0PB1MD2KVAM37Y9E2/te%2Broadtrip.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 The roadtrip: past salt lakes and grass fires and albino kangaroos. Over 16 hours+ friendships were made and solidified, a band was formed, songs were written, music was shared, stories told, future plans made and the sensation of being lost together was welcomed at many turns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073364651-XDOGPCNYHPZ5B0OINQAX/eyre%2Bpeninsula%2Bpink%2Blake.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Otherworldy landscapes hosting out of this world people. found image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073521578-TWW0F1HIZCEKE4U0QBRF/night%2Blighthouse.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Arrival at the lighthouse at night. image by Lichen Kelp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073571131-VDY2OO1U265W17UZNYKN/round%2Btable.jpeg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Hot topics on the trip; cuttlefish, art, future collaborations, cuttlefish, whats for dinner, cuttlefish, music and the cosmos. From left; artist David Haines, musician Elisita Punto, curator Lichen Kelp, artist Joyce Hinterding, performance artist Jason Hood, co curator Danni Zuvela and musician Jannah Quill in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073714189-JP0LIZ24Y4ISBC5IOO0O/fewie%2B2.jpeg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Local Chris “Fewie” Fewster; ex commercial fisherman, cuttlefish protection advocate and lighthouse keeper, explains cuttlefish and their local eco political conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073639397-Q4YVCY8MR07TODNQJGVB/brodie.jpeg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Brodie Ellis and Cameron Robbins about to enter another realm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556072869487-LNTH5NUOGE2T1ON2CQWE/cameron%2Bdinner%2Bhaines+%281%29.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Candlelit dinner party at the lighthouse with Cameron Robbins channelling cuttlefish communiques on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073938070-F2K9CE6DZG44BH34FMDD/joyce%2Bhaines+-+Copy.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Joyce Hinterding in action. The conditions were grey and rainy above water and calm and psychedelic beneath. The overcast day provided the perfect conditions for snorkelling as it helped to enhance the colours below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556074031704-NW2DL3ALQ8JPUL831GW9/jellyfish%2B2%2Bhaines.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Unexpected and beautiful visitors on day two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073530359-Q5ZZMQIVLKOK9Q8JBC0I/joyce+cuttle.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 And what we all came for… the pulsating, irredescent mating displays of the Giant Cuttlefish; Sepia Apama. For this part of the journey the artists and musicians were cast in the role of the audience for an incredible and inspirational performance. Viewed through the rectangular glass lens of goggles, the effect was as if viewing the spectacle through a screen while being fully immersed in their world, cold water ocassionally seeping through the 7” wetsuits to remind us where we were; within a surreal waterscape surrounded by bioluminescent colour flashing shapeshifters with alien intelligence; a virtual virtual reality experience that was hyper real! Photo by Joyce Hinterding https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556074221496-TY2OSONW1EW86GHOIUXQ/point%2Blowly%2Bsatellite%2Bimage.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Point Lowly Lighthouse and cottages on the Satellite map: a wonderfully isolated and remote location for an artist camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556073757800-9VTFMGUXJBRKLKV2HCB0/IMG-1123.jpg FSM Giant Cuttlefish Trip 18 Temporal base; Point Lowly lighthouse where once a year we will eat, sleep and congregate around the campfire under the orange glow of the sweeping lighthouse beacon. image by Lichen Kelp https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2021-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617790959822-T47D55NBXGX8Y3IZXP9Q/Float.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Forum of Sensory Motion was invited in 2019 by FLOAT AIR to curate a series of residencies on a houseboat on Lake Tyers. Artists include Dylan Martorell, musician Jannah Quill, writer Mat Bate, photopgrapher Keelan O’Hehir with upcoming residencies planned with performer Julia Drouhin, Steaphan Paton and David Haines and Joyce Hinterding. In August Mat Bate and Lichen Kelp hosted an edition of SASi/ Seaweed Appreciation Society international in the township of Lake Tyers. With a presentation on kelp farming, a turn out of over 50 people and an elaborate seaweed feast, and locally made seaweed beer by Sailors Grave. The night was a fantastic opportunity to gather together, experience new tastes and textures and learn from locals, ex fishermen, marine scientists and specialist food producers. This project is hosted and funded by FLOAT Artist Residency in Gippsland and Gandel Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617790959822-T47D55NBXGX8Y3IZXP9Q/Float.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Forum of Sensory Motion was invited in 2019 by FLOAT AIR to curate a series of residencies on a houseboat on Lake Tyers. Artists include Dylan Martorell, musician Jannah Quill, writer Mat Bate, photopgrapher Keelan O’Hehir with upcoming residencies planned with performer Julia Drouhin, Steaphan Paton and David Haines and Joyce Hinterding. In August Mat Bate and Lichen Kelp hosted an edition of SASi/ Seaweed Appreciation Society international in the township of Lake Tyers. With a presentation on kelp farming, a turn out of over 50 people and an elaborate seaweed feast, and locally made seaweed beer by Sailors Grave. The night was a fantastic opportunity to gather together, experience new tastes and textures and learn from locals, ex fishermen, marine scientists and specialist food producers. This project is hosted and funded by FLOAT Artist Residency in Gippsland and Gandel Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589791426003-245GI2JKNYGYF4WAAQIS/josephine+jakobi.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Josephine Jakobi, Lake Tyers artist and FLOAT co-curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1572570804014-3MKPVI6H59GN8TXWF65H/jannah+and+lichen.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Curator Lichen Kelp and artist/musician Jannah Quill during development of a sound based participatory kayak work featuring music by Jannah Quill, an aquatic sound system by Dylan Martorell and a participating paddling flotilla of Lake Tyers locals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1572571068134-62UFJ6X8BF9ASIN9VKIB/beach.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Exploring sonic visualisations in nature; Dylan Martorell references patterns created by the elements and more than human life forms as the basis for sound compositions. Image Lake Tyers beach, 2019 Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589779147431-42JFHYG4WT2TRPYVUA3G/98222570_2892314240805666_238823623589101568_n.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 FSM curator Lichen Kelp onboard FLOAT on one of her solo visits in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589779220726-YY0XKTAA25Z6V10MQO74/98346804_2597238003847452_3287259816786919424_n.png FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Turning the studio into a FLOATing library - the perfect seaweed research vessel. Pictured: The Curious World of Seaweed by Josie Iselin. A lot of algae reading, seaweed dreaming, kelp snacking and seaweed farm planning goes on at FLOAT! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1572473123133-A5S43GQC9WOGF6986VMA/FLOAT+Gippslandia.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Mat Bate’s article for Gippslandia on his residency with FSM on FLOAT, including a write up of our 7 course seaweed dinner for Seaweed Appreciation Society at Lake Tyers tavern. When I was invited by Melbourne-based curator/artist Lichen Kelp to take part in her Forum of Sensory Motion residency this August at FLOAT, Lake Tyers’ new artist residency program on an off-grid houseboat, I discovered buoyancy again on the Gippsland Lakes. I spent my time writing a book I’m working on and watching the wind over the water. I was tethered to the shore by four large nylon ropes, one for each cardinal direction. At night I went to sleep surrounded by moon jellyfish. I woke to the chorus of swans. I spent a week just moving with the ebb and flow of it all. I also spent a lot of time talking to people. FLOAT isn’t just a quaint little getaway for artists, it’s an artistic statement in itself, a manifestation of an incredibly strong and active community of people that value the natural environment and creative storytelling. Full article available here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589781900084-OMTMD5W8YSP1ZA2TELPH/sea+vegetable+foraging.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Out in the field; a selection of intertidal sea vegetables at Snowy River Station. These plants are featured in unique beers created by the collaboratively minded brewers at Sailors Grave, Orbost, who participated in the talk at the tavern. Chris and Gabe from Sailors Grave shared Bull Kelp beers and Down she Goes which features seaweed and outlinined the environmentally beneficial use of organisms such as introduced wakame and spiky sea urchins that create imbalances in the local marine ecologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589782559108-KU9RACLJAL2BFG3HA0NS/Mat+1.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Foraging for Neptune’s beard with Mat Bate. Mat and Lichen are both members of the Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi), which was formed by Lichen in June 2019 as a means to bring artists, scientists, food specialists and the wider community together to research marine algae, have seaweed based adventures and discover the culinary possibilities of this often overlooked organism. Mat and Lichen are currently investigating starting up a seaweed farm in Victoria, as a means of rehabilitating marine habitats, sequestering carbon and providing a sustainable food source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589779239591-QAD2US9JCJD0WOLEM8AQ/kayak+abstractions+1.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Kayak abstractions 1, by Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589779255146-ZDOX901GCW17XJNNE313/kayak+abstractions+2.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Kayak abstractions 2, by Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589779256442-6S9HQBHWOPWW9V24PD85/midnight+punt.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Midnight punt; Access to the floating studio is via a self powered punt using a simple and effective pulley system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589784197815-HLVIG1M3QESISUMEUKD1/98209100_1219150998462724_2085082252840009728_n.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Kayak Meditations, Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1572473236236-D5RH4479JTTKD990LRYM/Lake_Tyers_Map.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Aerial map of Lake Tyers. For one of the next iterations of the Forum of Sensory Motion residency series at FLOAT we will gain a new perspective on the region; travelling by kayak from Nowa Nowa to FLOAT at Fishermans Landing over several days, camping along the way and eating dehydrated meals prepared by Dylan Martorell. Image via Gippsland Port Authority. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589781465448-WTESSNXMTSVAZ89Y6O5R/bee+farm+2.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Visiting the Bee Farm run by local artist and FLOAT curator Josephine Jakobi with FLOAT director Andrea Lane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589780595742-6OEHUUKBDJACKV2ISMLV/bee+farm+1.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 The Bee Farm, an artists camp at Lake Tyers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1572570958860-YMJ4SKT1X1EV46EBTXYR/bee+farm+tent+LK.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 Five of Lichen’s visits, out of a total of six scheduled visits, were completed in the second half of 2019. The final trip, with Tasmanian artist Julia Drouihn, has been delayed due to the devastating fires in East Gippsland. The experience of being closely involved with FLOAT in 2019 made the fires in East Gippsland a painfully close reality for Lichen, as well as the other artists that have joined her. But the wonderfully positive thing to come out of it is a forged sense of community connection with Lake Tyers and a strong desire to be back there assisting directly in whatever way is most needed. Lichen will meet with FLOAT early June to plan the visit by artist Julia Drouihn, the FSM artist group tour of the Gippsland Lakes and the works for the Winter Festival and to discuss ways that the artists involved in these programs can help rebuild and regenerate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589784275009-GA0NEMJSSZD4U1YBU44V/paddle.jpg FLOAT Residencies 2019-20 https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/herbarium-residency daily 0.75 2019-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556079714419-3VTY2KS9Q7FQPCJSDVPM/Algae-Scrapbook-Cropped-4.jpg Herbarium Residency FSM will be curating a series of mini residencies within the Herbarium at Melbourne University from mid 2019. More information coming soon. Image: Algae Scrapbook via University Melbourne Herbarium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556079714419-3VTY2KS9Q7FQPCJSDVPM/Algae-Scrapbook-Cropped-4.jpg Herbarium Residency FSM will be curating a series of mini residencies within the Herbarium at Melbourne University from mid 2019. More information coming soon. Image: Algae Scrapbook via University Melbourne Herbarium https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2020-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556699765757-I8WPL4UCZ43AXW3AYEDJ/honey%2Bhoney.jpg FSM Greece 17 2017 was the inaugural year of FSM, the nomadic iteration of KochiAIR, an artist residency established by Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell in Kerala, India in 2014. In June of this year FSM travelled with artists Belle Bassin, Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell, Lichen Kelp, and Michael Candy, beekeeper and poet Nic Dowse and dancer Benjamin Hancock. They were based in Athens, Kithera and Serifos where over a period of six weeks these diverse practitioners engaged collaboratively with the public and each other creating improvised communities and radical experimentation. These artists and musicians, dancers and poets used the streets, airwaves, gallery and digital media to create a common noosphere of sensory activity incorporating robotics, interactive electronics, public lectures, wearable art, kinetic sculpture, performative chemistry and workshops. Image by Nic Dowse/Honeyfingers More information on this project here; lichenkelp.com/forum-of-sensory-motions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556699765757-I8WPL4UCZ43AXW3AYEDJ/honey%2Bhoney.jpg FSM Greece 17 2017 was the inaugural year of FSM, the nomadic iteration of KochiAIR, an artist residency established by Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell in Kerala, India in 2014. In June of this year FSM travelled with artists Belle Bassin, Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell, Lichen Kelp, and Michael Candy, beekeeper and poet Nic Dowse and dancer Benjamin Hancock. They were based in Athens, Kithera and Serifos where over a period of six weeks these diverse practitioners engaged collaboratively with the public and each other creating improvised communities and radical experimentation. These artists and musicians, dancers and poets used the streets, airwaves, gallery and digital media to create a common noosphere of sensory activity incorporating robotics, interactive electronics, public lectures, wearable art, kinetic sculpture, performative chemistry and workshops. Image by Nic Dowse/Honeyfingers More information on this project here; lichenkelp.com/forum-of-sensory-motions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556701987921-8C1TI9NKYINY0RK4C8QF/bendy%2Bben%2Bathens.png FSM Greece 17 FSM GREECE 17: For 6 weeks, Australian artsits Michael Candy, Nathan Gray, Benjamin Hancock, Belle Bassin, Dylan Martorell, Nic Dowse and Lichen Kelp travelled thoughout Greece, developing works and collaborations. Text by Nathan Gray: FSM 2017’s emergent themes include notions of the body and materiality apprehended in movement. Dylan Martorell’s practice, for example, scavenges discarded objects and activates them kinetically via robotics in order to explore their auditory potential. Rather than simply broadcasting sound, as through a sound system, these sonic automata are arrayed throughout spaces allowing audiences to venture inside these complex acoustic environments. These works are presented as collaborations with the other artists in the group.Belle Bassin presents works using the body as a sculptural form, merging bodies with landscape and architecture in aesthetically driven experiential works. Developed on Kythera, Serifos and in Athens, her recent work questions how to preserve the ethereal space of visions in accessible material formats and complications of the creative process.Dancer Benjamin Hancock will present his new solo work WITCH an attempt at using shape shifting and possession as strategies to disrupt gender binaries and explore new potentialities of the body.Both Michael Candy and Nathan Gray present new works that question technological determinism through mixed strategies of documentary and speculative fiction. Candy will show documentation from recent interventions in Kathmandu that explore the spiritual life of robots while Gray presents a new lecture performance entitled The Antikythera Device and the Holographic Universe that looks at a 1st Century BCE Hellenistic Era analogue computer, discovered in a ship wreck, in the light of recent claims by technologists including Elon Musk that we exist inside a simulation. Both of these works create histories of simulation and artificial intelligence that move the future back into the distant past.Another area of enquiry for FSM 2017 is the way that movement occurs across material, biological and phenomenological boundaries. Lichen Kelp’s work uses improvised thermal and chemical reactions from materials such as botanical samples, oils, ice and ouzo to generate live imagery and sound. Liquid imagery with its floods, waves, ripples, tides and flows provides a rich source of metaphors for economic and geopolitical thinking into the early 21st century (waves of migration, economic ripples etc.) Closer examination of these actual phenomena can lead to a reinterpretation or replacement of these metaphors with ideas of greater utility. Nic Dowse’s work moves across biological and authorial boundaries in his ongoing collaboration with bees and beekeeping. FSM 2017 sees him present a series of works that have been installed in beehives in the foothills of Athens and embellished by colonies of bees, furnishing his works with honeycomb, pollen and honey. Night one performances held at: Exit Gallery 1-7 Evmorfoupolou, Psiri, Athens July 4th. Image: Benjamin Hancock performs Witch on Opening Night, Exit Gallery Athens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556700124351-UBUEL70EXOVEQZFY767N/ben%2Blatraac.png FSM Greece 17 Image: Night two of The Witch; collaborative dance piece by Benjamin Hancock with mic'ed up skate bowl and robot orchestra live soundtrack by Dylan Martorell and performances by local skaters at Latraac, Athens, for Forum of Sensory Motion, July 2017. Both nights performances viewable here View more images from FSM residencies: #forumofsensorymotion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556701633246-Q8U0PTE9N0RR5K3KCFSW/belle%2Bbassin.jpg FSM Greece 17 As part of the FSM program in Athens, Belle Bassin presents her work, using the body as a sculptural form, merging bodies with landscape and architecture in an aesthetically driven experiential work. Belle Bassin, pictured above in Serifos, Greece with robotic instruments by Dylan Martorell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556700356250-0RUI62T4NRV0QW5N8BFW/bodyclock_bellebassin.gif FSM Greece 17 Bodyclock, above, filmed in Kythira Greece, June 2017. Screening at Testing Grounds, November 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556700481017-6IDKXTCWKO3C9ZB0YI3W/mmm%2Bcandy.jpg FSM Greece 17 Michael Candy's bees-eye-view of a mountain apiary in Serifos, screening at Testing Grounds November, 2017. Candy worked on a series of videos filmed with a customised drone and VR goggles for the artists on the Forum of Sensory Motion residency including this one in collaboration with beekeepers Honeyfingers and Nikos Kokolakis. Honey Fingers and Michael Candy presented this experience in the streets and bars of Serifos and Athens, with the smell of freshly crushed wild Thymari and Mountain Sage and other herbs that the bees feed on, for an immersive extra-sensory experience . Viewable here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556702053299-I8HI8HK9871K02B5NOE9/fat+shark.jpg FSM Greece 17 Participant experiencing the DIY VR installation and footage by Michael Candy in installation by Belle Bassin For FSM Greece, Exit Gallery Athens, July 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556702277772-1RUCGXNC21WJIC1IV8ES/The+Mechanism.png FSM Greece 17 Nathan Gray, The Mechanism, 2017, screening at Testing Grounds throughout November 2017, during opening hours. IN 1901 a mysterious device is found in a Roman shipwreck of the island of Antikythera. In 1974 a science fiction author has a revelation that reality is an illusion controlled by an ancient roman machine called the Black Iron Prison. In 2028 a prominent technologist gives a press conference to announce he has died and is addressing his audience from an augmented reality network called After-life. This complex narrative weaves together historical research, philosophical enquiry and speculation on future events. The Mechanism is a new Short Film By Nathan Gray that juxtaposes narration over hypnotic video shot in Greece, Germany and Australia. It was developed over the last 3 months with the help of ZK/U, Berlin and The Forum for Sensory Motion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1556700127246-M5VA636A9BJ170CQXQDU/7%2BKelp%2BD%2B%40%2BTesting%2BGrounds%2Bben.jpeg FSM Greece 17 Performative outcomes from FSM Greece 17 held at Testing Grounds November 2017. Pictured; Kelp D/J with Benjamin Hancock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1575517443753-13SPO8JOMO66AAJYAI40/ben+witch+acropolis.png FSM Greece 17 https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/seaweed-appreciation-society daily 0.75 2019-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571132089715-Q575QWPLKW23LUKBFD8F/Anna_Atkins_algae_cyanotype.jpg Seaweed Appreciation Society Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi) The society operates as a mobile learning lab connecting artists with experts such as marine biologists and kelp farmers with the aim of extending awareness and exploring options to assist in regenerating marine habitats. It will involve excursions, designing a logo, kelp snacking, hive mind planning, more excursions, underwater photography, seaweed drinks, seaweed fashions, finding a clubhouse, planning a cooperative floating kelp farm that can also host artists as well as straight up schooling. The inaugural meeting was held in May 2019 at Florence Peel Hall in Fitzroy and was cohosted by Lichen Kelp and Danni Zuvela as part of Liquid Architecture’s Why Listen to Animals program. Since then we have had groupings at Siteworks, Brunswick, presented at the Jaffle Symposium, Testing Grounds and held a seaweed forage in Point Cook Coastal Park. Lichen Kelp also presented a talk on the Kelp Highway for Matters Journal at Abootsford Convent and co-presented a 7 part seaweed feast at Lake Tyers Tavern, East Gippsland with Mat Bate, as part of a Forum of Sensory Motion residency with FLOAT. Forum of Sensory Motion will continue to host travelling iterations of the program. In 2020 Lichen Kelp will travel with SASi to hold a Forum of Sensory Motion residency with 10 artists in South America, where the Atacama desert meets the ocean. We are also continuing to hold talks, presentations and workshops out of community spaces around Melbourne and Australia and forages and snorkelling trips around the country. So if you would like to come or you would like to host a meet up, in Melbourne or beyond, or have any ideas, links or people SASi should meet who may like to assist please let us know. Also please be aware that you don't have to be an artist or an algae expert to join, being Marine bio-curious is qualification enough! 1843 cyanotype algae image by legendary botanist, algae enthusiast and possibly first female photographer Anna Atkins. more SASi information here; Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi) and regular updates on Instagram @seaweed_appreciation_society and facebook SASI/Seaweed Appreciation Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571132089715-Q575QWPLKW23LUKBFD8F/Anna_Atkins_algae_cyanotype.jpg Seaweed Appreciation Society Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi) The society operates as a mobile learning lab connecting artists with experts such as marine biologists and kelp farmers with the aim of extending awareness and exploring options to assist in regenerating marine habitats. It will involve excursions, designing a logo, kelp snacking, hive mind planning, more excursions, underwater photography, seaweed drinks, seaweed fashions, finding a clubhouse, planning a cooperative floating kelp farm that can also host artists as well as straight up schooling. The inaugural meeting was held in May 2019 at Florence Peel Hall in Fitzroy and was cohosted by Lichen Kelp and Danni Zuvela as part of Liquid Architecture’s Why Listen to Animals program. Since then we have had groupings at Siteworks, Brunswick, presented at the Jaffle Symposium, Testing Grounds and held a seaweed forage in Point Cook Coastal Park. Lichen Kelp also presented a talk on the Kelp Highway for Matters Journal at Abootsford Convent and co-presented a 7 part seaweed feast at Lake Tyers Tavern, East Gippsland with Mat Bate, as part of a Forum of Sensory Motion residency with FLOAT. Forum of Sensory Motion will continue to host travelling iterations of the program. In 2020 Lichen Kelp will travel with SASi to hold a Forum of Sensory Motion residency with 10 artists in South America, where the Atacama desert meets the ocean. We are also continuing to hold talks, presentations and workshops out of community spaces around Melbourne and Australia and forages and snorkelling trips around the country. So if you would like to come or you would like to host a meet up, in Melbourne or beyond, or have any ideas, links or people SASi should meet who may like to assist please let us know. Also please be aware that you don't have to be an artist or an algae expert to join, being Marine bio-curious is qualification enough! 1843 cyanotype algae image by legendary botanist, algae enthusiast and possibly first female photographer Anna Atkins. more SASi information here; Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi) and regular updates on Instagram @seaweed_appreciation_society and facebook SASI/Seaweed Appreciation Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571114709513-DXIPRZWLY6FCHEZVU3LT/Matters+Journal+kelp+farm+pic.jpg Seaweed Appreciation Society Kelp Farming. Mat Bate from Matters Journal presented a session at Siteworks on kelp farming. His article on the topic (sea below;)) was one of the earliest inspirations for the Seaweed Appreciation Society! So it was an honour to have him speak. Mat is currently working on a book about seaweed for kids with illustrations by Liz Rowland. I Get By with a little Kelp from My Friends Matters Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571133278329-YXXCDJD81TBQPUCYMQYP/seaweed+walls+3.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society SASi Jaffle Symposium at Testing Grounds, Melbourne. For this event we foraged Giant Kelp from Apollo Bay to create draped seaweed walls for an outdoor room with a central fireplace where we cooked ocean bread jaffles with nori, cheese and native warrigal greens. Image by Marina Lamari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571123423694-73DYJQAIITJ9565VVZ0R/Testing+Grounds+SASi+jaffle.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society Danni Zuvela, Lichen Kelp and Mat Bate discussed 10 weird and wonderful things to do with seaweed. Jaffle Symposium group photo by Marina Lamari. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571133656286-ZIO3SJXWJ14WJBML2W84/seaweed+walls.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571133979251-S2PSS4YOEMW7DQADD4BS/ladies+of+seaweed.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571131980269-V8M9LYXDZY31P6299ZNE/ocean+bread+1.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society Danni Zuvela preparing the thin gozleme style ocean bread dough for the toasties at the Jaffle Syposium presented by SASi at Testing Grounds. A regular bread recipe calls for the same ratio of salt:water as is found in the ocean; on average the salinity found in the sea is approximately 3.5%, Thus any bread recipe can use ocean water in the mix. Our ocean water was collected from Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571125256306-D4BT4NJOEBY8NBLPN59L/jaffle+symposium.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society Toasting toasties AKA Jaffles AKA toasted sandwiches - extra special ocean themed jaffles! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571131946022-G66EMEF0QV4EPPKIK9EA/seaweed+jaffle+1.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571133227339-S7O0OCG52SLQ1YWZKESS/seaweed+women.jpeg Seaweed Appreciation Society Seaweed appreciators in action! image by Marina Lamari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1566521077725-0XIQROXA3CB8RD8NKI24/drawing+matters+2.jpg Seaweed Appreciation Society In August 2019 Lichen Kelp presented the second edition of Drawing Matters, a Matters Journal talk series held at Cams Abbotsford Convent. Below are some resources from the evening for those who'd like to learn more about seaweed and those who'd like to get involved with our aquatic kin. Image: Japanese photographer Yoshiyuki Iwase dedicated most of his life to documenting the incredible ama uminchu, Japanese divers who were mostly women. The photo here shows the ada uminchu collecting seaweed (circa 1950's). “Return to the ocean as often as possible.” — LICHEN KELP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1566521026815-F8VDMULJU8LTZRI4GF44/drawing+matters+1.jpg Seaweed Appreciation Society image; Lichen and Sarita discussing the Chilean stop on the Kelp Highway for Drawing Matters, Abbotsford Convent. photo by Sharni Hodge. The Kelp Highway This is an excerpt from An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed by Josie Iselin (2014). Seaweed has been supporting humans since the very beginning. In 1975 the archaeological remains of a twelve-thousand-year-old human settlement at Monte Verde in southern Chile were discovered. Among the artefacts preserved in the peat bogs were the clear remains of nine species of marine algae from distant beaches and estuaries. These seaweed relics, confirmed to have been used as food and medicine by the ancient people, have stirred intense debate as to how the earliest Americans came to inhabit the continents. It was accepted for years that the earliest humans arrived via the Bering Strait land bridge and then slowly populated the southern Americas as hunter-gatherers. The Monte Verde site, however, predates the glacier melt throughout Canada, when overland routes would have been impassable. It is now postulated that the kelp beds on the west coasts of North and South America created a nutrition highway along which the first humans travelled, either by boat or along the shore, eating the abundant shellfish and seaweed there. READ MORE Articles; Is Seaweed the Next Superfood? THE NEW YORKER Melbourne based Seaweed forages; Chris Rockley Can seaweed save the world? TIM FLANNERY ON CATALYST thanks to Mat Bate for putting together these resources and a fantastic evening of drawing kelp, eating seaweed and discussing marine algae! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571113924585-O48U5EZPVUFWV4SWQAQ9/seaweeds%2Bchris%2Brockley.jpg Seaweed Appreciation Society SASi Seaweed forage, Point Cook Coastal Park. September 2019. The first in a series of Seaweed identifying field trips conducted by botanical illustatrator, scientific educator and ethnobotanist Chris Rockley. The session included a seaweed soup cooked with foraged wakame and a workshop in making seaweed fertilizer. Image: Chris Rockley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571123664476-M0KSQR8GVSOGN6J0WB59/seaweed+mask.jpg Seaweed Appreciation Society In an upcoming session of SASi, we will be creating our own one off algae beauty products. The beauty industry can be a bit suss, but making our own seaweed remedies is going to be fun- delicious, slimy pampering with kelp facemasks, footbaths and we’ll make dried seaweed bath bombs to use at home. We will watch some edu-taining vids wearing our face masks and snacking on nori popcorn, then do a light hearted beauty product review. Stay tuned. https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/fsm-x-la-cephalopod19 daily 0.75 2020-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090646914-P7MDRHULQF3W8KMNJ2NA/cephalopPOD+19+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-219.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 cephaloPOD19 was the second iteration of the cuttlefish artist camp originally dreamt up by Lichen Kelp in 2018. This edition was curated by both Lichen Kelp (Forum of Sensory Motion) and Danni Zuvela (Liquid Architecture) and was supported by Australia Council for the Arts. The trip was attended by 14 artists in total and took part near Whyalla, South Australia. Our purpose was to witness the spectacular mating displays of the Giant Australian Cuttlefish which takes place in winter each year, with the belief that artists potentially have much to offer the field of marine biology in observing this ritual, so much of which is still not understood by scientists. Being placed in the role of audience for this incredible underwater performance, the artists bring their shared language of colour, patterning, light and movement to the experience and translate it back on shore through their future works. Our home during the camp is pictured here; the Point Lowly Lighthouse and cottages. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090646914-P7MDRHULQF3W8KMNJ2NA/cephalopPOD+19+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-219.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 cephaloPOD19 was the second iteration of the cuttlefish artist camp originally dreamt up by Lichen Kelp in 2018. This edition was curated by both Lichen Kelp (Forum of Sensory Motion) and Danni Zuvela (Liquid Architecture) and was supported by Australia Council for the Arts. The trip was attended by 14 artists in total and took part near Whyalla, South Australia. Our purpose was to witness the spectacular mating displays of the Giant Australian Cuttlefish which takes place in winter each year, with the belief that artists potentially have much to offer the field of marine biology in observing this ritual, so much of which is still not understood by scientists. Being placed in the role of audience for this incredible underwater performance, the artists bring their shared language of colour, patterning, light and movement to the experience and translate it back on shore through their future works. Our home during the camp is pictured here; the Point Lowly Lighthouse and cottages. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1569231279069-ME7XQH7XXY0RT1D8Y8U4/visit+to+barngala+cultural+centre.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 The trip began with a visit to the Barngala Cultural Centre, Port Augusta, with an introduction to the revived Barngala language dictionary. More information here. Image by Keelan O’Hehir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1569229181702-8V1WM53SGTRNWIYMY5WU/squidlighthouse-x-comp-712x475.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 cephaloPOD19: Why Listen to Animals article by Danni Zuvela for Liquid Architecture. Image by Lichen Kelp remixed by Jay. Field Notes from the Giant Cuttlefish Aggregation 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563477722-3GZVLYW3SV4VAMEXBZ6M/Image11.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Pattern Flashing, a junior male Sepia Apama, or giant cuttlefish in full display mode in the winter shallows of Spencer Gulf. Image by David Haines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562562767087-IQYUSMSKVB24V7UBU2KC/_DSC1055.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Days in the water with the cephalopods were followed by extended campfire conversations around cuttlefish, the cosmos, and community. Image by David Haines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562562445578-P98FJP45SZFC3MIPR37W/cuttlie+lights+Cameron+Robbins+by+Brodie+Ellis.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Cuttlefish apparition caputured midway through Cameron Robbins’ submerged nocturnal lighting performance. Image by Brodie Ellis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090667137-98ODD9R17B8T11MZ5NJD/cephalopPOD+19+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-261.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Industrial ambience provided by Santos gas plant which is adjacent to the cuttlefish breeding ground. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562561849250-MYONDEU33BAAUWG7VS2J/haines+light.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Diurnal Cameron Robbins lighting display captured by David Haines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1591669112530-KI0BLN81IWNLPQUF1THY/image-asset.jpeg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Michael Candy, geared up and ready to take Little Sunfish into the water to meet the cuttlefish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563087746-4V529QX6GSDL2KK65G7W/candy+sub.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Michael Candy’s before image of Little Sunfish, his miniature robot replica of the Fukishima submarine navigating through the marine algae of Spencer Gulf. See excerpts from his film resulting from the FSM x LA cephaloPOD19 residency here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563603704-CDEYUB3HQAMGA9MKIE5G/candy+sub+bite.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Encounters of the third kind; here one of the Giant Australian cuttlefish - often considered to possess an alien intelligence, meets the robot submarine up extremely close. Image by Michael Candy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090645243-16FEMSEUU3QXQ1BRFMDV/cephalopPOD+19+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-207.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 After a morning spent diving with the cuttlefish, two of the artists in residence walk along the beach at Point Lowly, with the looming gas plant, Santos, in the background. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090240862-VFV3TDRHJOY2RO97ZULV/beach+buddies.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090306276-2BT3ABMISW1G4O8ICQ2A/selena+beach.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Selena De Carvalho. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090582509-469NUKC918WYH12DXKHW/cephalopPOD+19+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-185.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Beach cyanotypes workshop in progress with Selena De Carvalho and Michael Candy. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090188213-NU7ZRSI0J7XZJ5ENZ2AO/Danni+and+Lichen+SASi.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Cuttlefish communication being illustrated by camp curators Danni Zuvela and Lichen Kelp. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090340700-PZEOARJD93OC6CBTDUFR/stephanie+beach.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Stéphanie Karbanyana Kanandekwe in cephalopod resplendant colourways. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563710294-913YH1YM0CMXHK5RE5R7/neptunes+balls.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Neptunes balls, discovered on the foreshore; intertidal sea grass washed into perfect examples of geometry in nature. Image by Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562561886320-03KXVX5V5FIX77IQL5G0/Brodie+Ellis_lighthouse-9.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Michael Candy flys his customised drone around the lighthouse while Cameron Robbins whale watches through binoculars. Image by Brodie Elllis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562562378212-NCWGRZ78VW2PXMOPBG50/cuttle+torch+samuel.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 The cephaloPOD19 cuttle camp was promptly followed by a second trip for the year; a family edition comprising two families, Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell and their two kids and Sarita Galvez and Bryan Phillips and their two boys. Samuel Galvez pictured here with a dead cuttlefish that had washed ashore in near perfect condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563195137-KXDX9YWZ87K54UFPY7RQ/_DSC1135.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 David Haines image of his light drawing (I see a cuttlefish!) against the industrial backdrop of Whyalla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563156161-GUODBVOSJNZ6SQLOYP7P/cuttle+dissect+green.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 A cuttlefish dissection being lit up in multi coloured disco lights. The Sepia Apama cuttlefish, the species that congregate en masse in Point Lowly, Whyalla each year, live an intense and short life. For most of the year they live a solitary life around the coat of Australia before travelling a great distance to mate and spawn and die off. Hence by July there are more and more dead ones that can be found floating in the water or washed up along the shoreline. It is thought that this short life span has increased the evolutionary particularities of the species with their huge roster of adaptive survival tricks. Image by Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563210039-XCSUK0YY9ZKTS4JCXORF/cuttle+dissect+blue.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Cuttlefish egg sack and ink visible through the blue light during a dissection that fused science with art and finished with a poetic cuttlefish funeral held by the kids of the second camp for 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562563384359-EGACO7GV2IXDQW31CP3H/haines%2Baerial.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Aerial view of Spencer Gulf. Image by David Haines. The mangroves that would have once been much more densely populous are visible in the shallow estuary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561090465543-XY3HAF9H0CM1NS2E69ZR/cephalopPOD+19+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-81.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Curator as diver, Danni Zuvela. Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1561264744317-3MG0GF7927A3QRR2L9XM/cephalopPOD+19+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-83.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Tentacular portrait of curator Lichen Kelp by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562564632165-9NHGYDDLAJZPSJ1XLGZG/haines+circle+cuttle.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Striking image of circular patterned cuttlefish chromatophores by David Haines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562564216648-XOM1OLIJ93M5LB2PTINQ/Brodie+Ellis_Double+Smoke+Panarama.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Brodie Ellis’ depiction of the Whyalla steelworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562559425290-8LW0RVZ8M2H1M84CW6O8/Brodie+Ellis_Train+Track+Piles.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Steelworks by Brodie Ellis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562565742922-215ADPW0CVXYBF8570DV/other+minds.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Peter Godfrey Smith, Other Minds; text from the cuttlefish reading group that evolved out of the cephaloPOD19 camp. Info here; https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/cephalopod-reading-and-learning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562566074062-VKFOTQOSIE12BVWK0WK8/cephocamo.gif FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Alien Babies, cuttlefish mix by Lichen Kelp here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1569282762536-RYMXHGBPHISLX5HBU3UF/TLB%2Bissue%2B43_1%2Bcopy.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Michael Dulaney’s The End of Dreaming article; part of his regular ‘Environment’ column about the solidarity to be found the Whyalla steel industry and the wonders of the cuttlefish can be found in the latest issue of Lifted Brow. Read here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1569300552245-0VJLB9M81LTYZ864KQA7/Brodie+Ellis_Cuttlefish+Camo-2.jpg FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Still from 'Contact & Witness' by Brodie Ellis from her exhibition Heavy Launch at Linden New Art. Extract from the accompanying catalogue text; Ellis’ second video, Contact and Witness, documents the mating displays of cuttlefish. Ellis captured this footage over a number of days filming at Point Lowly in South Australia. The film shows how the cuttlefish are able to signal and communicate by fluorescing and generating intricate variations in the colour and pattern of their skin. They are also able to camouflage themselves perfectly into their surroundings. The cuttlefish’s means of protecting themselves is completely self-sufficient. Their intelligence manifests in their ability to reflect their environment. We know relatively little about cuttlefish and hence Contact and Witness provides a beautiful example of how much we can still learn about life on our own planet. This work sits in line with a stream of current ecocritical thinking that suggests “recognition of the lives of animals in conjunction with our own animality is indispensable to the creation of ecological sensibilities and ethical orientations that are adequate to the demands of the Anthropocene.”5 Acknowledging and better understanding our vulnerability could be the first step towards environmental sustainability. 5 Deyo, B., “Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene”, in Eds. Bladow, K. and Ladino, J., Affective Ecocriticism Emotion, Embodiment, Environment, University of Nebraska Press, 2018, p.197. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1562565643539-ZIN3PA9NKM35FDDTL7AJ/cuttle+giphy.gif FSM X LA cephaloPOD19 Until Cuttle2020, thankyou to everyone involved thus far! Image source unknown https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/mulch-performance-picnic daily 0.75 2019-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571099138794-M0Z6WCJFBBCA2WACKQA6/David+Haines+kirlian+J.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic MULCH; a System Garden Performance Picnic November 9, 2019 Performance chemist and curator Lichen Kelp brought together an eclectic range of artists for an afternoon of live art and sonic performance in the University of Melbourne System Garden – an oasis in the heart of the Parkville campus. David Haines, Loren Kronemyer (Pony Express), Lisa Lerkenfeldt, Tim Coster, Honeyfingers (Nic Dowse), Kelp D and Benjamin Hancock presented a series of site-specific works in conversation with the plants and local ecologies of the Garden. Chemical reactions, improvised movement, experimental electronics, beekeeping, poetry and perfumery all combined in a dynamic program of esoteric and scientific investigation. The System Garden Picnic was presented by Forum of Sensory Motion as part of The Potter’s 2019 Inside Out program, generously supported by Peter Jopling AM QC, Andy Zhang and Calvin Huang. Image; David Haines. Wollemi Kirlians (detail) courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571099138794-M0Z6WCJFBBCA2WACKQA6/David+Haines+kirlian+J.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic MULCH; a System Garden Performance Picnic November 9, 2019 Performance chemist and curator Lichen Kelp brought together an eclectic range of artists for an afternoon of live art and sonic performance in the University of Melbourne System Garden – an oasis in the heart of the Parkville campus. David Haines, Loren Kronemyer (Pony Express), Lisa Lerkenfeldt, Tim Coster, Honeyfingers (Nic Dowse), Kelp D and Benjamin Hancock presented a series of site-specific works in conversation with the plants and local ecologies of the Garden. Chemical reactions, improvised movement, experimental electronics, beekeeping, poetry and perfumery all combined in a dynamic program of esoteric and scientific investigation. The System Garden Picnic was presented by Forum of Sensory Motion as part of The Potter’s 2019 Inside Out program, generously supported by Peter Jopling AM QC, Andy Zhang and Calvin Huang. Image; David Haines. Wollemi Kirlians (detail) courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571099286994-LOEBRH7I1C7VLQ4K6U6X/Lisa+Lerkenfeldt+by+Xanthe+Waite+87+HI+RES.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Lisa Lerkenfeldt Australian artist Lisa Lerkenfeldt’s multi-disciplinary work embraces music concrète, environmentalism, noise, found objects and the cinema of Marguerite Duras in the composition and imagining of her live post-digital, post-industrial landscapes. Concerned with intimacy and technology her performances and recordings employ feedback, electronics, objects and field recording to generate new experiences in sound and gesture. Recent work: 29° on Longform Editions https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/29 Links: https://soundcloud.com/lisa-lerkenfeldt https://lisalerkenfeldt.bandcamp.com/releases image by Xanthe Waite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571099492941-JJEQWWRXHYRQEJKS0HX0/Loren+Kronemyer+Julian+Frichot.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Loren Kronemyer uses an antidisciplinary approach to create immersive alternate realities and interspecies performances. She is interested in queer ecologies, slow apocalypse, and cyclical time. As part of MULCH; System Garden Performance Picnic , Kronemyer presented a live performance working intimately with the living elements of the garden throughout the afternoon. Loren is an internationally exhibiting artist from Los Angeles, California. After graduating with a BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, she joined the SymbioticA and obtained the first Masters of Biological Arts degree at the University of Western Australia, where she developed several forms of living and self-healing drawing. She collaborates frequently with laboratories, and is one half of the live art duo Pony Express. She is currently based in regional south eastern Tasmania, working on a PhD as an Australian Research Training Scholar at the University of Tasmania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571102726718-V7QPHVUKLIIJOGA1W9C2/Nic+Dowse+WIld+Comb.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic Nic Dowse is an architecture graduate and urban beekeeper, poet and artist working in and around Melbourne, Australia. He is the founder of the Honey Fingers Collective, an interdisciplinary and international network of beekeepers that explores the surprising intersections between honeybees and the many disciplines of HFC collaborators. Current collaborative projects include: the pollination of infill agriculture; human foods fermented with the microbial life of beehives; and the documentation of traditional beekeeping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571309784835-O8EZI4WJ5TE1D0VC9NT2/NicDowse.png MULCH; Performance Picnic image: Nic Dowse https://honeyfingers.com.au/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571266875467-09ZIQ8L0GT2U3Z056KFD/The-Wollemi-Kirlians_David-Haines_WEB1.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic image: The Wollemi Kirlians by David Haines 2014 courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery. For MULCH: Performance Picnic, David Haines will be creating a new series of Kirlian images based on the plants found in the System Garden along with a perfume synthesised from the native and exotic flower plantings. http://www.haineshinterding.net/2014/09/04/the-wollemi-kirlians-2014/ http://www.haineshinterding.net/aroma-studio/ The following is a text written for the Kuandu Biennale extracted from a longer essay written by curator Jasmin Stephens… David Haines is presenting an installation comprising a suite of images using the technique of Kirlian photography and a fragrance he composed in his Aroma Studio. In his sculptural assembly, Wollemi Kirlians (2014) and Slow Fast Mountains (earth aroma laboratory)(2014), Haines has configured the visual and olfactory elements to set up a recognition system intended to bring Biennale visitors into closer proximity to ‘unseen forces’ that lie within and around us. Haines’ installation exemplifies the tension between ‘the fictive and the phenomenal’ that lies at the heart of his enquiries. He is drawn to the ghostly qualities of Kirlian photography, a technique for creating contact prints by charging the air around an object, pioneered by Russian electrical engineer Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina in the mid-twentieth century. Haines’ photographs are of plants from the Wollemi Wilderness, a remote and mysterious region, that shelters the elusive Wollemi Pine, a species known only through fossil records until it was discovered in 1994. The photographs, with their connection to ‘spirit photography’, and the fragrance, which is suggestive of the damp earthy smell thrown up by the rain, are intended to evoke a range of associations – fantastical and grounded. Haines embraces his inability to contain the ‘live’ nature of his works. Fragrances, for example, are thermodynamic in their emanations, heading towards equilibrium in any environment and subject to entropy which is why they are refrigerated and stored in coloured glass to protect them from heat and light. Their ephemeral tendencies raise questions about where they start and finish. As they lodge in the mind as much as the body, any thoughts about ‘what’s inside and outside’ become out-moded and a re-organising of ‘space’ as a continuum within and beyond ourselves is required. For the Kuandu Biennale, Haines has arranged the installation so that there are many images and one smell. The asymmetrical layout is intended to loosen the correlation between what is seen and smelt and what is real and artificial. Visitors are able to ‘register’ the aroma in any number or combination of plants. Haines has not pursued an efficient linear flow between the installation components and viewers/smellers. Energies – physical and symbolic – that derive from the materiality of the works and the wealth of interpretations that surround their display, are mixed and re-transmitted in real-time in the gallery. Haines has a sustained commitment to not only the visible but also the audible and ‘smell-ible’ aspects of the frequency spectrum. The frequency spectrum is the system by which different types of energy generated by the fluctuations of the earth’s magnetic and electrical force fields are classified. Frequencies of molecular spin can be discerned as scent with the most notable example being ozone which is the smell before a thunderstorm due to burning ions. Haines regards these energy systems as integral to his processes and materials. In aligning himself with the them, he has asserted, ‘we are transmitters because in a bodily fashion, the receptors of our senses are highly attuned to sections of the spectrum and are converting energies into sensation .... the sensation field is a tuned system.’1/Abstracted from Jasmin STEPHENS’ essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571099590497-X6X77LRE257X2BIAYHCP/Why-Plant-group-4a+%281%29.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic Kelp D with Benjamin Hancock An electronic ikebana and beneficial insect performance by Lichen Kelp set to music by Dylan Martorell and improvised movement by Benjamin Hancock. Image: Kelp D/J with Benjamin Hancock; Why Listen to Plants performance for Liquid Architecture, 2018. Photo by Keelan O’Hehir. http://lichenkelp.com/ https://www.benjaminhancock.net/ Dylan Martorell/ https://www.slowartcollective.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571305644922-7PQKKCIAEOEOTHFQIGSI/13%2BKelp%2BD%2Bshower.jpeg MULCH; Performance Picnic Benjamin Hancock is a dancer and choreographer who has featured in works by many of Australia’s leading choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Lee Serle, Sue Healey, Prue Lang, Antony Hamilton, Martin del Amo, Narelle Benjamin, Melanie Lane and Gideon Obarzanek. As a solo performer, Benjamin has presented work for MONA Gallery, Prospect 3 New Orleans Biennale, Chunky Move, National Gallery of Victoria, and Lucy Guerin Inc. Benjamin received an Australian Dance Award, Green Room Award and Helpmann Award Nomination for Outstanding Male Dancer in Lucy Guerin Inc’s The Dark Chorus. Benjamin is also a current member of the multi awarding winning drag cabaret show YUMMY. He has performed with Kelp D (with Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell) and Kelp D/J (also with Jason Hood) since 2017 and participated in the 2017 Forum of Sensory Motion residency in Kythira and Serifos, Greece and performed over two days of FSM events in Athens. image: Benjamin Hancock performing with Kelp D/J at Testing Grounds for Forum of Sensory Motion’s outcomes from The FSM Greece 17 residency. Photo by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571103506364-G1Q9D4PMH7YLSAMOVHLV/IAN+Systems%2BGarden%2Btower.jpeg MULCH; Performance Picnic This Picnic has grown out of an earlier Musical Picnic event held in 2017 at the System Garden, hosted by Dylan Martotrell (one half of Forum of Sensory Motion and Kelp D) for Ian Potter Museum Image; Carmen Chan and Dylan Martorell performing as part of Kelp D at the System Garden 2017. Image by Keelan O’Hehir More images here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571104296753-AW1N0RSL2C820GFYTZAW/IAN+Systems%2BGarden%2Beview.jpeg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571104318476-6T1VLDVZDTEE3JO003Y2/IAN+Systems%2BGarden%2B.jpeg MULCH; Performance Picnic Audience in their picnic finery, 2017. Image by Keelan O’Hehir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1571103525702-CB1MXN5R6AUM0YL18DQH/IANPOTTER2017_Systems%2BGarden%2BConcert%2B%28Keelan%2BO%27Hehir%29%2B-106_preview.jpeg MULCH; Performance Picnic The System Garden at Melbourne University is in a bit of a secret spot, hidden away near the Percy Grainger Museum- the closest main road is Royal Parade. If you haven’t been before, give yourself a bit of extra time to find it, but if you need directions they can be found here. Image by Keelan O’Hehir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573603223810-7VIZEXQCWDE3S8MUJ37A/MULCH+LKelp.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic Kelp D Frozen Ikebana Keyboard (detail) image by Lichen Kelp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573445114254-FMIWXGAXGC1BAKH75X39/MULCH%2Bkelp%2B1.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic Eletronic Ikebana set by Lichen Kelp, Kelp D at MULCH November 2019 image by Inez Martorell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573604201229-ARH90EHBLTHDQT3ITWCA/Mulch+alan.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Dancer and Kelp D collaborator, Benjamin Hancock. Image by Inez Martorell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573447902209-BGHEO0L9WKW8M891C43E/MULCH+kelp+2.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573445423068-GWPVVXT05OZT38J0UQ1B/mulch%2Bgreenhouse%2B2.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573603418301-S2EBTLNB3LFT29YDL04V/MULCH+LOREN.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic Performance artist; Loren Kronemyer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573446216098-DRLWUK4UFAUE67POC668/DSC_0172.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Loren Kronemyer, sound performnace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573447790782-3GPI5N5PQNT8LLYKRD8P/DSC_0117.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573445443796-QQMWOUDW9ZQY11R5GDSX/DSC_0179.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Loren Kronemyer, durational palm planting performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573444881958-E3S7BOKF0F199AEXYKU0/mulch+greenhouse+moss.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Macro moss image by Inez Martorell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573446215787-6E8IPS5FKQM3L36ZK68B/DSC_0183.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Tim Coster. Image by Inez Martorell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573447016963-8SH3EKW6ZBF6MVBWWOUD/DSC_0107.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic University of Melbourne, System Garden greenhouse detail by Inez Martorell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573448799608-P11ZZQVRM75KM6SVF6B3/DSC_0073.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic Lisa Lerkenfeldt. Image by Inez Martorell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573449488891-H53L4M8U0A6KJIP206I7/DSC_0155.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic David Haines’ earth-based molecular perfumes based on the soil of the System Garden, featuring ingredients such as geosmin, pure beeswax and ambergris to create a dry and dusty but satisfyingly pleasant pre-petrichor aroma of a garden just before a rainstorm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573449297561-7TIRURM6D1N6A86GT8C4/DSC_0113.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic David Haines talking the audience through the fascinating process of creating perfumes based on the System Garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573504887523-SEMGD4V8BWW4I2QVNG4Q/DSC_0159.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Curator Lichen Kelp and artist David Haines. Image by Inez Martorell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573603706733-VG0B8CVU3IZG4EM2CE3R/MULCH%2BDH.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic David Haines discussing scent; “There is evidence to suggest our noses are quantum tunnelling…” image by Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1573515183904-Q20LVQOFM5HAU9L3TXH9/DSC_0169.JPG MULCH; Performance Picnic Honeyfingers; poetry reading and lemon myrtle tea ceremony. Nic Dowse - founder of community based urban beekeeping collective Honeyfingers published a small run of his poems based on flowers that are found local to the System Garden and included his own honey varieties as part of the tea ceremony. This honey was collected from hives around nearby Carlton that Nic oversees, with a high likelihood that the bees would have feasted on the exotic flowers from the University garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574042300412-HJHQKBCZ4ZV5RHSQYYLJ/Mulch+vid+screenshot.png MULCH; Performance Picnic Lush and verdant video documentation by the lovely folk at Common State, courtesy of Ian Potter Museum of Art. View it HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043412828-9G7MV41VIWM31JTEZLQJ/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0235.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043450098-CU0FS3OF2YJ3LI4YHF1G/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0428.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043515761-XM8QUKV61SIVA0ORNTW5/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0903.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043599700-9RBHRMKOMJQ4TKAMENOJ/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0694.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043674967-2C1P28P183WWIZYXNY7C/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0645.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043952066-GGK6TFRLANZVES5COOV1/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0818.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043862390-4026WD9R4AQ8H3O8Z19R/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-1107.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574044102550-R2J05BDEV3Q1L0NPLIYY/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0681.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574044200684-X0GMTJNIF9LLYWQLKA6O/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0156.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1574043974470-0VZM6TLSXINBMR8X4GF8/20191109-GL-SystemGarden-0640.jpg MULCH; Performance Picnic https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/kochiair daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589964572713-324RAZPD7TI5GY8EZ2V9/meagan%2Bstreader.jpg KochiAIR Forum of Sensory Motion began life as KochiAIR, based in Kerala India. In 2014 and 2016, 20+ diverse Australian artists including Meagan Streader, Chaco Kato, Selena De Carvalho, Michael Candy and Eugene Howard, participated in the program held at Pepperhouse Studios. The residencies were held over 5 weeks and culminated in an exhibition at Pepperhouse and were supported by the Kochi Muziris Biennale. The program took on the name Forum of Sensory Motion in 2017 when it switched to a mobile model, exploring new destinations for each edition. More information and images for KochiAIR can be found here image: Fluoro Coir, woven lighting installation, Meagan Streader, Pepperhouse Studios, KochiAIR, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1589964572713-324RAZPD7TI5GY8EZ2V9/meagan%2Bstreader.jpg KochiAIR Forum of Sensory Motion began life as KochiAIR, based in Kerala India. In 2014 and 2016, 20+ diverse Australian artists including Meagan Streader, Chaco Kato, Selena De Carvalho, Michael Candy and Eugene Howard, participated in the program held at Pepperhouse Studios. The residencies were held over 5 weeks and culminated in an exhibition at Pepperhouse and were supported by the Kochi Muziris Biennale. The program took on the name Forum of Sensory Motion in 2017 when it switched to a mobile model, exploring new destinations for each edition. More information and images for KochiAIR can be found here image: Fluoro Coir, woven lighting installation, Meagan Streader, Pepperhouse Studios, KochiAIR, 2014. https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/untourism daily 0.75 2021-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617791642827-VI3T6X18V09QXFYM8ST1/image.jpg School of Untourism In 2019, Forum of Sensory Motion curator Lichen Kelp began a series of curators residencies to a floating studio and artist residency situated on the remote waters of Lake Tyers, in East Gippsland, Victoria. FSM partnered with FLOAT to bring down a wide variety of artists for short stays to share the experience of creating while floating, to introduce them to the program and to encourage returning for longer stays to collaborate and work closely with the Lake Tyers community. This partnership continued into 2021 and evolved into a plan to extend the residency program throughout East Gippsland in a series of under utilised holiday homes. School of Untourism also grew out of this collaboration between Lichen Kelp and Andrea Lane, the Creative Manager of FLOAT. School of Untourism aims to bring creative and sustainable tourism to East Gipplsand and create a better quality of experience for the visited and visitors. Working with the Gunai Kurnai and other traditional owners of the land and waters around the Gippsland Lakes, along with a group of actively engaged community members including artists, activists, ex fishermen, regenerative agriculturalists, musicians, chefs, foodies, fermenters and brewers - School of Untourism provides programming, workshops, exhibitions, dinner and talks and connects visitors with citizen science initiatives, local food producers, and eco tourism providers. School of Untourism launched in March 2021 with a series of events curated for Open House Melbourne’s Waterfront, East Gippsland program. Photos by Keelan O’Hehir (unless otherwise specified) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617791642827-VI3T6X18V09QXFYM8ST1/image.jpg School of Untourism In 2019, Forum of Sensory Motion curator Lichen Kelp began a series of curators residencies to a floating studio and artist residency situated on the remote waters of Lake Tyers, in East Gippsland, Victoria. FSM partnered with FLOAT to bring down a wide variety of artists for short stays to share the experience of creating while floating, to introduce them to the program and to encourage returning for longer stays to collaborate and work closely with the Lake Tyers community. This partnership continued into 2021 and evolved into a plan to extend the residency program throughout East Gippsland in a series of under utilised holiday homes. School of Untourism also grew out of this collaboration between Lichen Kelp and Andrea Lane, the Creative Manager of FLOAT. School of Untourism aims to bring creative and sustainable tourism to East Gipplsand and create a better quality of experience for the visited and visitors. Working with the Gunai Kurnai and other traditional owners of the land and waters around the Gippsland Lakes, along with a group of actively engaged community members including artists, activists, ex fishermen, regenerative agriculturalists, musicians, chefs, foodies, fermenters and brewers - School of Untourism provides programming, workshops, exhibitions, dinner and talks and connects visitors with citizen science initiatives, local food producers, and eco tourism providers. School of Untourism launched in March 2021 with a series of events curated for Open House Melbourne’s Waterfront, East Gippsland program. Photos by Keelan O’Hehir (unless otherwise specified) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618187044861-9UAMK39FM5C5MG4S72DY/FLOAT_KOH+8.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617790416010-VLPKBP1EEBCXFM3YCGK7/Float+Keelan-236.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618187300246-7PCCWTS7KQ2UBNO6WDEX/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-138+KOH.jpg School of Untourism The Kayak Orchestra on Lake Tyers, with an electronic composition by sound artist Jannah Quill and floating instruments by Dylan Martorell. Curated by Lichen Kelp/ Forum of Sensory Motion for Waterfront and presented by School of Untourism and Open House Melbourne, East Gippsland. More info here… Image by Keelan O’Hehir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618187222107-KM6HPA1J63GRV3OIURVE/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-46+KOH.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617790445314-GKSN6RETXYOLOB07K9G3/Float+Keelan-272.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618186218779-HRKEK1LQ364T4D9GYKQZ/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-61+KOH.jpg School of Untourism Artist talk aboard FLOAT for Waterfront which was part of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Design Week. The theme for Design Week was Design the World You Want to Live in and the talk on FLOAT by curator and artist Josephine Jakobi was a fantastic example, explaining the process of the Lake Tyers community getting together to fund, design and build a floating off grid residency program. The talk detailed the inspiring grey water system Josie has built to minimise the impact of visitors staying on the Lake Tyers houseboat and elicited cheers of approval when she announced that the water going through the hand built system had been tested and is even cleaner than the lake water itself. Josephine also described her incredible textile art. The process involves leaving linen floating in the lake for up to a month, which is then dyedand patterned by algae and other microrganisms. Photos by Keelan O'Hehir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618186347425-IRVXI70WHD588PIXS5Z4/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-72+KOH.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618186519349-51M691XQW30ROKIT6LYE/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-63+KOH.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618186741273-PMJE2W8I6H8N5ON8LB6S/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-86+KOH.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617790705832-RBDR8Y9SVHDTVP43531S/Float+Keelan-182.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620607973594-R468KLFTUIM74QC5YOLZ/Seaweed+Dinner-51.jpg School of Untourism Seaweed Appreciation Dinner at Sodafish Restaurant. As part of Waterfront- Melbourne Design Weeks East Gippsland program, the Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi) held a seaweed feast at Sodafish. After some initial consultation and knowledge sharing, the seaweed sourcing and foraging as well as recipe testing and the final delicious 5 course dinner was presided over by chef Nick Mahlook. Nick happily rose to the challenge to explore these other forms of seafoods and incorporated them into some exciting new dishes that also included his highly regarded of sustainably sourced local shellfish and sardines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608092963-7E2QG3JR4NPBRLK2NWAK/Seaweed+Dinner-50.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608150942-CUJ1L9RDNERIC8MO884H/Seaweed+Dinner-73.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608180757-VAI728E4T1CRUX9VCW2C/Seaweed+Dinner-66.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608218872-VB625CI9V72RY3ZNT8G4/Seaweed+Dinner-81.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608248809-RCUJNN5HHO7525P746XG/Seaweed+Dinner-90.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608302347-R0F45SU8NU60NVDHTDCT/Seaweed+Dinner-22.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608323209-WNXQIS5S2JV1Y9NN8D7Q/Seaweed+Dinner-28.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608356625-21SEIP965KORPT9PX9DS/Seaweed+Dinner-72.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608281080-O6B2DJD5C7R4WBYN7Q85/Seaweed+Dinner-17.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608484043-S504X6061AHOIZRCXRRJ/Talks-133.jpg School of Untourism Sipway Salon. The Slipway Collective is a community project by East Gippsland arts workers and local creative businesses. In 2020 they activated two old fisherman’s boatsheds located on the Esplanade in Lakes Entrance. The buildings had been sitting empty for years and are one of the precincts only remaining historic buildings. It has been used for workshops, food vans and community gatherings and for Waterfront housed a day long talks program concentrating on local creative entrepreneurship as well as an exhibition titled End of Era, documenting the last of Lakes Entrances small scale fishing industry. Full talk program here Exhibition details here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608455384-3ZBKT6STKL7GVCN4R9ZF/Talks-82.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608433665-OSE2PQ4HLK66IMZG70X7/Talks-22.jpg School of Untourism Charles Davidson – Founder, Peninsula Hot Springs – discussing global bathing culture and World Bathing Day in Deep Dive into Hot Springs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608381391-XPS6ILT7LTLYNWNFDTRT/Talks-35.jpg School of Untourism Chris Stanley of Splinter Society Architects, discusses the design and sustainable principles behind the design of the new Metung Hot Springs project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608566874-DNIEMSIUBB1WQ2IY34O6/Talks-5.jpg School of Untourism Splinter Society’s Asha Nicholas, on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608594001-3EVKG6YV6RFLI6CGLHWV/Talks-25.jpg School of Untourism Matt Sykes who presenting the research behind the Great Victorian Bathing Trail in relation to the upcoming Metung Hotsprings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608773396-9051WRGXI9U9UTNCWZNF/Talks-52.jpg School of Untourism Nikhila Madabhushi, architect and lecturer, focusing on rethinking ‘community-led’ recovery of built environments in the regional Victorian context following the bushfires in East Gippsland / Gunaikurnai-Bidwell Country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608539663-2XHKHUEKNERLMF0LFSG7/Talks-77.jpg School of Untourism Moderator Timothy Moore; Sibling Architecture/ NGV with Nikhila Madabhushi, architect and lecturer, and Charles Davidson, Metung Hotsprings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620609938973-WW82QENHNOOCZ4Q9N14C/IMG_9318+CR.JPG School of Untourism Nikhila Madabhushi and her Monash Masters of Architecture students talking on ABC Gippsland Radio with Mim Cook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608405655-35131K0RPPRGJF658NY8/Talks-145.jpg School of Untourism Trish Butler, Uncle Noel Butler and Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608517560-SNUWVJIFH18HBJKHODHC/Talks-158.jpg School of Untourism Uncle Noel and Trish Butler and Chris and Gabrielle Moore from Sailors Grave Brewing discussing the design process of their collaborative brews based on bush food ingredients and cultural knowledge sharing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608652538-09YQRDXCU29JXTM68B91/Talks-176.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608682282-4YXRLZUWA4W3L92ITFPS/Talks-184.jpg School of Untourism Native ginger, sourced by Uncle Noel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608754026-TT0ZCQYWQQEQ0FRVHGG0/Talks-185.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608627640-G9QQ4ZCBFZ7BKENXXCFU/Talks-114.jpg School of Untourism Hearing from Andrea Lane (FLOAT/ Slipway Collective) and Lichen Kelp (Forum of Sensory Motion and Seaweed Appreciation Society) as they discuss their collaborative project called the School of Untourism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608706780-GDRBEYSYKQ84O1KR4Y8P/Talks-204.jpg School of Untourism Local East Gippsland arts advocate, activist, philanthropist and curator Andrea Lane on the microphone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620608734711-BGUBGBKUBPRHAG4UQQ4Q/Talks-188.jpg School of Untourism Slipway Salon audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620609834681-5TYMK4B8KACENTWRLIPJ/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-19+KOH.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1617790342026-ZGPMEQBAK2IPA75BQZY3/Float+Keelan-14.jpg School of Untourism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1620782419885-BG3AYKAHH07EDGWRID5M/Talks-153.jpg School of Untourism https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/kayak-orchestra daily 1.0 2022-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618189963590-5VX8WM11FKWUT4O7ABY3/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-136+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra The Kayak Orchestra is a meditative interactive sound performance. Equipped with sonified kayaks, kayakers create gentle drifting layers of tones in a minimal, improvised composition made up of the sounds of other paddlers, bird calls, the splashes of jumping fish and the wind in the reeds. Featuring an electronic composition by sound artist Jannah Quill and floating kinetic instruments by Dylan Martorell. Curated by Lichen Kelp/ Forum of Sensory Motion for Waterfront and presented by School of Untourism and Open House Melbourne, East Gippsland. The Kayak Orchestra premiered for Waterfront as part of FLOATIng with School of Untourism; original event information here: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618189963590-5VX8WM11FKWUT4O7ABY3/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-136+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra The Kayak Orchestra is a meditative interactive sound performance. Equipped with sonified kayaks, kayakers create gentle drifting layers of tones in a minimal, improvised composition made up of the sounds of other paddlers, bird calls, the splashes of jumping fish and the wind in the reeds. Featuring an electronic composition by sound artist Jannah Quill and floating kinetic instruments by Dylan Martorell. Curated by Lichen Kelp/ Forum of Sensory Motion for Waterfront and presented by School of Untourism and Open House Melbourne, East Gippsland. The Kayak Orchestra premiered for Waterfront as part of FLOATIng with School of Untourism; original event information here: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618195617839-1V3Y4H7AYCSSDQZFB2XY/FLOAT_KOH+16.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190099707-FH1IFNL8RJUR6XSCU2HM/DSC_2541+CR.JPG Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190224093-2Q6HPI1OIWU0N2O3ORVO/DSC_2474+CR.JPG Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190609867-4CQ98N4P552OIH5U8QJU/DSC_2513+CR.JPG Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190735870-7WGR89ZPLJRZMPKZDAN5/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-43+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190818042-FA3NW660GVJZ97Q0P6MT/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-189+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190970988-EE4JIBJSITV09IARF3LE/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-37+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618191008782-VB13LMHODBEOQGSLPGHW/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-142+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618191296745-1AAU22AWHS35KGK5DT7X/IMG_9440+CR.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618191154821-JEYCR5CKE8V1L3QAFYBF/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-199+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618191263282-SKSBKBHIURZQYKDQFHQC/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-236+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190376444-CTDBRFZ0EI1NLYQ4R1NP/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-244+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618191377557-2Q3DHI2G52CUNBDULU14/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-237+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618191395052-FDO8UXZDEXDSIA2SHJXT/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-240+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1618190043625-GSR42Q96OOT44XDGRK9A/FLOAT_Kayak+Orchestra-272+KOH.jpg Kayak Orchestra https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/mulch-mpavilion daily 0.75 2022-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657671122710-Q2M8LLMCYNVXP5I4T8I3/mulch+seedlings.jpg MULCH MPavilion MMeets MULCH Image by Lichen Kelp Join us at MPavilion for an enhanced picnic of immersive, biocentric live art gently unfolding across the afternoon. Expect performances from artist gardeners, live music, talks and walking tours that give detailed background of the Queen Victoria Gardens. Relax, sit back and hear about the garden in all its forms, including it’s non-human inhabitants. MULCH is growing into an ongoing project where entangled plant/human relationships are centered through collaborations between artists, gardeners, plants and pollinators. Featuring: Sara Retallick Friendly Society Scott Baker Alex Last Gregory Lorenzutti Carolyn/Fia Fiell April 2022 event listing here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657671122710-Q2M8LLMCYNVXP5I4T8I3/mulch+seedlings.jpg MULCH MPavilion MMeets MULCH Image by Lichen Kelp Join us at MPavilion for an enhanced picnic of immersive, biocentric live art gently unfolding across the afternoon. Expect performances from artist gardeners, live music, talks and walking tours that give detailed background of the Queen Victoria Gardens. Relax, sit back and hear about the garden in all its forms, including it’s non-human inhabitants. MULCH is growing into an ongoing project where entangled plant/human relationships are centered through collaborations between artists, gardeners, plants and pollinators. Featuring: Sara Retallick Friendly Society Scott Baker Alex Last Gregory Lorenzutti Carolyn/Fia Fiell April 2022 event listing here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657673991509-HSYJEK2QAB9NII1HU0DT/PXL_20220131_231950491.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657674186986-AZII1U867Q799C7O4UH4/PXL_20220131_231418829.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657674912597-8JDPC4LIE51JXOOXHUK0/PXL_20220131_231402077.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657675007179-JDRNYYUQ7B4H05BK8Z36/PXL_20220131_231429979.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657669312808-I52SNGDTSZDOLZW7WBQO/Scott%2B3.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657670007672-AZ1NA4NW6SYJNJ4UDGDE/Scott+1.jpeg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657671010842-KIWBASXF873CC1J7A67B/PXL_20220423_053146742.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657668870504-K00O6OZZY2P43DQNSH5L/C2Hum-3.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657668707089-3C2ZOAWVC5JEM6AKGLFX/image-asset.jpeg MULCH MPavilion Image by Sara Retallick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657668765680-JACRKTSQZCNLH0AZD0OE/C2Hum-4.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657668865690-JI98PCERQHYBOKN2ILMW/PXL_20220423_071852371.jpg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657668519939-B9BL2JOPAZ66MSX0V3HI/MPav+autumn.jpeg MULCH MPavilion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657667582421-X6WCFUU51AMTT12V7L9L/common+phrases+design.png MULCH MPavilion “Common Phrases” is a new work developed for MULCH by Alex Last, which explores the vocal complexity of the Common Myna. For this project Alex has combed through hours of Myna call-streams and isoalted 44 individually unique sounds… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c99a98d51f4d4d7267103de/1657667781421-V85HEEFU5ZKVWQJ7T373/Screenshot%2B%252896%2529.jpg MULCH MPavilion …These acoustic units have then been paired with the 44 phenomes of English and packaged into a text-to-speech app with the help of Xavier Burrow . 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