From fish farming and fishing, shipping, cruise tourism and submarine cabling to wind farming, mining, offshore drilling, nuclear testing and industrial waste dumping, these are just some of the human activities at sea, and human interference threatening the health of our ocean; a place we often mistakenly think of as quiet and still know very little about, while ignoring the impact of our activity to its ecologies.
Money, Ruins, and the Sea presents a series of artworks and artistic research exploring the ocean and seas as sites of economic exploitation, commodification and even abuse, and questioning the impact of ongoing exploitation and financialisation on marine ecologies, communities and environments. If ocean exploitation operating without rules continues to grow, what would this mean for the future of the planet, human and non-human entities? How can art help us engage with these urgent and current issues, enable critical conversations across different sectors, and inspire people to imagine alternative futures and take action?
This lecture-workshop led by Irini Mirena Papadimitriou, delved deeper into the exhibition themes and artworks, and explored wider artistic ideas and research that respond to topics of extractivism, global economies and financialisation, in the context of ocean, seas, and marine environments.
