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_outlineEpisode 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, a poet who is president of the Selk’nam Corporation Chile. The Selk’nam people are one of four communities Indigenous to Tierra del Fuego. Hema’ny shares her manifesto about caring for peat bogs as a form of cultural resistance. Christy Gast, an artist who lives on a wetland in New York state, wonders how field-based research can happen at home in the time of COVID. Dr. Bárbara Saavedra is the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Chile, advocates for peatland conservation, and has created a road map for how Chile should do this. Camila Marambio, who founded Ensayos, takes us on a guided tour of the olfactory system, and Fuente Papudo performs a tune based on a Chilote folk song. Catalina Jaramillo hosts the episode.