OCEANIC News OCEANIC Artists receives Australia Council funding In May this year Dr Sarah Jane Moore was awarded the inaugural ANAT On Country Artistic Residency for 2019. ANAT is Australia's leading organisation working at the intersection of art, science and technology and Sarah Jane has been funded to initiate creative arts-based research conversations about the Baludarri, or Sydney Rock Oyster. Hosted in the school of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) at UNSW Sydney, Sarah Jane will connect with Dr Laura Parker, an Indigenous scientist who has focused her career on the impacts of climate change on marine molluscs, particularly the Baludarri. Sarah Jane will use Laura’s research in providing solutions to prevent the loss of the Baludarri as provocation for her work. The research questions for Sarah Jane's work include: How has the Baludarri come to be? What are the stories of the Baludarri? What do we know about the Baludarri? What don’t we know? How are we connected to the Baludarri? How significant are the Baludarri? How can we explore our connection to the Baludarri and how can we care for them? What threatens the Baludarri? Can we connect to the family line of the Buladarri through Indigenous ways of knowing, seeing and being? While most people think of the Baludarri as a sedentary animal which sits on a rock and does not change, during its early life the Baludarri swims around in the water column changing its shape multiple times before selecting an appropriate spot to settle on and stay for the rest of its life. During this “early-life history”, they are visually beautiful, extremely fragile and can only be seen with the aid of a microscope. These views through the microscope will provide rich themes for dance and encounter. Sarah Jane’s research dialogues will explore the relationships and connections between the words, shapes, music, sounds, patterns and science. She is currently song writing and will share her songs about oysters, the blue economy and sea Country in Samoa at the OCIES Conference. Please follow Sarah Jane's residency blog to learn more about her work. http://moore2019.blog.anat.org.au
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