Worlding with Oysters

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.1.2020.3731

Keywords:

visual arts, story, song, poetry, marine environment, nature, culture, creativity, science, Indigenous knowledge

Abstract

“Worlding with Oysters” is presented through text, story, song, poetics and image. It explores the opportunities that connecting with nature offers to communities of practice. It asks the collectively conscious to imagine a time oysters spawn in pristine waters and when the smoke of old campfires is remembered as an essential element of the conceptualisation of caring for Sea Country. The poetic essay is hope-filled and hopeful and imagines futures embedded in old ways where rivers and oceans are regarded as essential spaces, rich with metaphor, abundant in story and deep in learning.

Author Biography

Sarah Jane Moore, Creative Artist & University of New South Wales

Dr Sarah Jane Moore is a creative artist who lives in Tasmania, Australia. She is an Adjunct Associate Lecturer with Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), University of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2019 she was the ANAT On Country resident artist and this opportunity enabled her to develop a deep and listening relationship with the Bandangi (Sydney Rock Oyster). With Wiradjuri Scientist Laura Parker as her muse, she develops interdisciplinary research dialogues that explore an art meets science approach. She is currently an Australia Council funded artist and is working towards an exhibition of stories, songs and visual art that will explore the importance of the oyster to our well-being, environment and waterways.

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Published

2020-08-30

How to Cite

Moore, S. J. (2020). Worlding with Oysters. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.1.2020.3731

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2020): Special Issue: Environmental Artistic Practices and Indigeneity: In(ter)ventions, Recycling, Sovereignty

Section

Essays

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