Elizabeth Spavento Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman who spends his life traveling both land and sea. Curator, Elizabeth Spavento caught up with him somewhere between Denmark and Seattle, WA to discuss his latest project and muse on…
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Drop-Off
Jonathan Bonfiglio and Joshua Cogan Written by Jonathan Bonfiglio. All images by and courtesy of Joshua Cogan. May 2015 â Marble House Project âNo other mammal moves around like we do. We jump borders. We push into new territory…
Tightening the net: in search of alternatives to destructive fishing and meshing programs
Andrew R. Davis and Allison Broad Industrialised fishing has changed the ocean irrevocably. As technology improved, so the quantity and range of sea life extracted from the ocean increased.[1] The discourse of extraction, which we usually associate with the mining…
Bodies Beneath
Jayne Wilkinson âYou canât send a postcard from the bottom of the sea.â â Allan Sekula, Ship of Fools / The Dockersâ Museum âThe conditions that obtained when life had not yet emerged from the oceans have not subsequently changed…
What must we do about rubbish?
Ian Buchanan There is at least a risk that there will be no more human history unless humanity undertakes a radical reconsideration of itself. — FĂ©lix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (p68) There can be few messier or more urgent problems…
Pam Longobardi: The Ocean Gleaner
An Interview with Pam Longobardi by Celina Jeffery Descriptive text supplied by the artist. Pam Longobardiâs parents were an ocean lifeguard and the Delaware state diving champion, connecting her from an early age to the water. She moved to Atlanta…
Junk Ocean
Freud famously described religious experience as an oceanic feeling â the vast ocean has all the majesty and mystery of a God. But this particular God isnât immortal. In fact it is perilously close to extinction. And we donât have…
La Course (The Race)
Jean-Michel Rolland Rhythmed by the race of five horses shot in Marseille BorĂ©ly, this video, a tribute to Muybridge, doesn’t try to take the public into the universe of racetracks; instead, it communicates the frenzy felt during the breakneck speed…
The Game Embodied
Cheryl Pope All images courtesy the Artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photo by James Prinz Photography. A SILENT I, 2010, Installation view of series of nylon banners installed in Lindblom Math and Science Career Academy, text on banners written by…
Nuances of Gesture
Amelia Johannes All works by Amelia Johannes, 2015, Digital collage. Images courtesy of the artist. Original material courtesy of Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria and Herald & Weekly Times Limited portrait collection. “âŠ[R]ituals are composed of…