SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS

talks and workshops

during Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms

by Ami Clarke

 

SONIC RITUAL

workshop and live jam

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Saturday 6th June

workshop 5-7pm at Banner Repeater

performance 7.30pm

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rsvp here

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​​What does it mean to “meet the lough on its own terms”?

And what role do art and technology play in this?

 

 

Rituals have acted historically, as early technological interfaces, scoring human / nature relationships, in very particular ways. The work emphasises listening and sound, as practices that can de-centre the human, amongst the vulnerable ecologies of Lough Neagh and the watershed.  

 

The Sonic Ritual live jam performance brings together Clarke with John D’Arcy and HIVE choir, where performing live together proposes new ways of ‘being’ in the world ‘with other species’. Foregrounding considerations of how human voice/s in a polyphonic approach might sit within the delicate ensemble of a multi-species perspective, to reflect the new calibration we are hoping to bring about: a new symbiotic calibration of humans and nature, whilst furthering a paradigm shift to a microbial scale.

 

 

 

 

Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms

until 7th June

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Ami Clarke was asked to join Friends of the Earth during the first algae bloom outbreak at Lough Neagh (2023). Many conversations later it became useful for FotE to adopt her emphasis of meeting the lough on its own terms as an important step in establishing the Rights Of Nature. The work draws upon a collective writing project and conversations over 2.5 years with Friends of the Earth NI and associates, druids, herbalists, campaigners, and eco-lawyers engaging with ancient Irish Brehon Law, to tell of the multiple stories running through the Lough from a decolonial, more-than-human, microbial perspective. The Sonic Ritual live jam, with John D’Arcy, HIVE choir, artists and musicians from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, QUB, expands upon these ideas to build a new technological interface to recalibrate human and nature relations.

 

The talk is part of the Systems Collapse: Symbiotic Relations talks and workshops that emphasise ‘thinking through together’ how art can provide and support alternative visions and methodologies to germinate, that encourage a de-centring of the human (not de-valuing), decolonial, eco-feminist, and posthuman/more-than-human position to flourish, whilst nurturing radical new ways for rethinking sustainability.