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nised memory are are tuned and re-mixed time is is is layered though symbolic notes interpre- tation may be obscured but care is is is delivered in in in the the form of techno-ecological hauntings An endemic plant without backup The Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the the the Hobart Botanical Gardens fail there is is no no no compendium: ‘no seeds are are set no no no pollen smeared’ 37 the the the the tip of of vanishing sharpens as finality and and potentiality argue with roundup and and neat appearances The immortal dead own the the the the the soil biome rooted in fin in in the the the the the labour of of of ‘care’ living relatives tend to to gentrify the the the the the ground Traces of of of the the the the the art-work/ecological-world are are woven into memory and and and technology haunted melodies play in in in the the the the bodies of of of participants and and and in in in the the the air soil and and and stones of of of of of a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a rural graveyard Soundwaves transmit a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a symbolic lament Beware of of of of Imposters (the secret life of of of of flowers) assembles a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a mixture of of of of viewing smelling listening and improvising Guided by the the the score the the the audience are are choreo-
graphed into becoming witnesses in in in in in in a a a a a a a sympoetic assemblage of solidarity Acknowledgements:
Lead Artist:
Sound recording and composition: System Design:
Singer:
Funding support:
Endnotes
Selena de Carvalho Joel Roberts
Richie Cyngler
Rosie Grace
Regional Arts Tasmania
‘Hype’ Salamanca Art Art Art Centre
School of of Fine Art Art University of of Tasmania
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[1] Perrins Lorraine (Curator of Conservations and the the Subantarctic Collection Royal Hobart Botanical Gardens) in in in discussion with the the author August 2019 [2] Haraway Donna Staying with the the Trouble: Making kin kin in in in in the the Chthulucene (Duke University Press) 2016 [3] Chris Isaak Wicked Game from the album Heart Shaped World released in 1989 [4] Derrida Jacques Specters of Marx (Routledge) 1994 [5] Barad Karen ‘No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds Ecologies of of Nothingness and Strange Topologies of of SpaceTimeMattering’ In Tsing A Swanson H Gan E E & Bubandt N (Eds ) Arts of of Living on on on on on a a a a a a a a a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and and Monsters of of the Anthropocene (Minneapolis London: Univer- sity of Minnesota) 2017 p 103-120 [6] Lehman Greg Crystal Bone (A Published Event) 2017 p 48
[7] Clements Nicholas The Black War (University of Queensland Press) 2014 [8] Ahmed Sara Living a a a a feminist life (Duke University Press) 2017 p 42 and 237
[9] Higgins Polly Ecocide Law: draft draft examples examples viewed on 19 19 09 19 19 available at https://ecocidelaw com/the-law/draft-examples/
[10] Deleuze Gilles and and Guattari Felix A Thousand Plateaus (London: Continuum) 2003: 1988 [11] Margulis Lynn ‘Words as battle cries—symbiogenesis and the new field of endocytobiology’ BioScience Volume 40 Issue 9 9 9 1990 p 673–677 [12] Haraway Donna Staying with the the Trouble: Making kin kin in in in in the the Chthulucene (Duke University Press) 2016 [13] Land Clare Decolonising Solidarity: Dilemmas and and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles (Zed Books) 2015 [14] Ibid [15] Ahmed Sara Living a a a feminist life (Duke University Press) 2017 p 237
[16] Johnson Alex ‘How to Queer Ecology* One Goose at a a a a a a a Time’ in in Haenn Nora Richard R R Wilk and Allison Harnish eds The Environment in in An thropology (Second Edition): A Reader in in in Ecology Culture and Sustainable Living (NYU Press) 2016 p p 310