Surfaces vs the depths of the ocean
Land (alex Hartley)
Drip from land to surface (katie Paterson)
Depths (rona lee/Ayesha hameed)
^from phil sturnburg (???)
Wetness brings a sense of the haptic, the sensory, the bodily and the epidermal (around 4.10 mark)
The practice of throwing slaves overboard to claim insurance prompted the conversation of if slaves were people or property (links to Yusoff) – specific example given around 6.00
Ambivalence
What counts as an act of god?
Turner’s painting shows a storm but there was no storm – they were thrown into flat waters
The use of a narrative – more gripping – could utilise the story of nowhere island more? Rather than having it just in the first paragraph, have it more spread out?
Drexciya’s ‘The Quest’ – the idea that the pregnant women thrown overboard could have had sea-breathing babies (8.40)
Whole talk based around fragments. First fragment ^ – each fragment is an image and a counter image (not always strict ‘images’)
Idea of fragments – let the reader do some of the work
Paul Klee Angelus Novus – facing the past, moving towards the future, blowing on the winds of progress (12 ish)
Planet earth – why not planet water? Because earth is where the humans are (random unrelated point, not from hameed)
Ben Nicholson text on Klee angel can be read in reverse for a different meaning – clever with the forward and backward moving of time aspect – 17 ish
17.54 – good quote
Fragment 4 about hapticality
Fragment 5 involves a sound system – ‘the deep tissue matter of sonic dominance – organs vibrated to the core by the sound system’ – link to deep sea? And the use of the haptic/sonic rather than the visual – why we only listen to music in ‘darkened spaces crowded with bodies’
Find simon’s lecture on this – week 4 term 1 FA202 mediascape
The epidermal physicality of slave ships and now migrant ships – the pressing of skin on skin
The Mediterranean is a ‘catalogue of bodies’ – in reference to the modern day migrant crisis (48.10 ish)
Earnest-ness to the form of audio-visual essays (53ish)
‘when figure and ground collapse into one then who’s the agent?’ – in reference to the walter Benjamin quote and the storm – the idea of the environment having agency (55ish)
Drexciya as a method – a way to think things through (apply to water?) (57)
‘when you’re stuck with all these unimaginable catastrophes that we’re facing right now then you have to go into the unimaginable to think of solutions’ (58)
Now wanting to resolve juxtapositions
Forensic oceanology
‘skin as terrain’ in the context of migrants removing fingerprints to avoid data recognition (1.04)
Anna Harris 