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Micro-Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Discovering the Equirium

An insight into the watery world that complicates the assumed binary between the human and non-human. We ask what it is that water may remember and preserve- as shapeshifter, as body(ies), as collector and as a human-like structure. Welcome to the equirium. All footage has been captured and edited by contributors. Audio has either been produced by contributors, or otherwise sourced on the open-source sound archive, 'Freesound'. Special thanks to the contributors on that platform.

This page is referenced by:

Watery Worlds: Short Films
Water: A Meditation
By Eva Claire & Ella Howe

Discovering the Equirium
By Amelia Loughland & Bridget Moyle

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All footage has been captured and edited by contributors. Audio has either been produced by contributors, or otherwise sourced on the open-source sound archive, 'Freesound'. Special thanks to the contributors on that platform.

By The Water's Front
By Raymond May & Christa Jessica Tulong

Albatross
By Sophie McGing & Caitlin Stibbard
Earth as marked by connection and convergence Many of our worlds respond to anthropocentrism by seeking to interrogate the binary between human and non-human. Instead, they offer to emphasise connection, co-dependency and intra-action. Most prominently, Marginal Worlds, which explores the beauty of liminality, poignantly displaces that distinctive separation is fallacious.

The Marginal Worlds photo essay explores spaces where humans and nature meet not only meet, but blend and transform each other. In line with new materialist theory, each marginal space is marked by the inseparability of many parts, which have become one through physical and social interaction: a natureculture space.

This porosity of being may also be seen through in Watery Worlds: Discovering the Equirium; the discussion of the earth’s membrane; and the close reading of Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. Each of the sections demonstrate that convergence and connection is not limited to place and physicality, but also time.
Nature touches and remembers all of us – all our ancestors and our future families. We are connected by blood, places, and nourishment which is a form of nature, for natural time is not linear.
- Marginal Worlds

References:

Haraway, Donna 2007, When Species Meet, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.