Hydrofeminist METitations Episode 1: Eastern Australia
Release Date: 11/09/2020
Hydrofeminist METitations Episode 4: Phase Transitions
ENSAYOS Listening Series
Episode four, Phase Transitions, was created with fine art graduate students from the Nomad MFA, an interdisciplinary MFA dedicated to regenerative culture, hosted by the University of Hartford. It was produced during a course taught by Ensayistas Camila Marambio and Christy Gast who asked the students (Julie Chen, Arnetha Douglas, Kathryn Cooke Katie Grove, Aiyesha Ghani, Roberta Trentin, Monica Kapoor, and Mauricio Vargas) to think “with” water as they developed segments. Catalina Jaramillo hosts.
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Hydrofeminist METitations Episode 3: The Americas
ENSAYOS Listening Series
Episode three is set in the Americas — in Chile and in New York. In this episode we think with wetlands. We squish through them — in real life and in our imaginations. We experiment with lending each other our ears and our voices to create a chorus — many forms of naming the things that we love and care for. Hema’ny Molina, Elisita Balbontin, Christy Gast, Dr. Bárbara Saavedra, Camila Marambio, Fuente Papudo contribute, and Catalina Jaramillo hosts.
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Hydrofeminist METitations Episode 2: Norway
ENSAYOS Listening Series
Episode two Stories, songs and conversations with artists and scientists about Norwegian waters. The episode explores conservation questions and care ethics from the frozen Arctic to a creek on a farm near Oslo. Karolin Tampere, Randi Nygård, Søssa Jørgensen, Geir Tore Holm, Christy Gast and Karolin Tampere contribute. Catalina Jaramillo is the host.
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Hydrofeminist METitations Episode 1: Eastern Australia
ENSAYOS Listening Series
Stories, songs and conversations with artists and scientists about waters along the east coast of Australia
info_outlineThis episode guides listeners on the migration path of the mysterious short-finned eel from freshwater to sea. Beginning inland at the urban Merri Merri Creek, artist and educator, Sarita Gálvez, offers a lesson on acknowledgment and water care. Thousands of miles north, indigenous scholar, Dr. C.F. Black narrates her speculative mystery “The Bringers of the Viral Red Dust” and Ensayos enacts a somatic exercise in “Mangrove Tuning” at the edge of a coastal wetland. Returning to the eel’s breeding ground in the Coral Sea, marine biologist, Dr. Lynne Van Herwerden, offers a sorrowful interview about a tiny crustacean and microplastics. The episode ends with a song about the imperiled copepod. Catalina Jaramillo is our host.