Stories of Warning Stories of Care
A participatory performance, “My name is Spartina Alterniflora.”
Using a handheld foghorn woven from items harvested from Boston's coastal salt marshes, Plotform shares the story of the past, present, and future of the salt marsh that used to line the shores of the Mystic River.
In the afternoon the boats will stop in Charlestown along the Boston Harbor Walk near to where the Malden Bridge crosses the Mystic River. At this stop, the boat travelers will be welcomed by Plotform (Jane Marsching + Andi Sutton), who will introduce the group to their project Marsh Radio Island through a participatory performance, “My name is Spartina Alterniflora.” Using a handheld foghorn woven from items harvested from Boston's coastal salt marshes, Plotform will share the story of the past, present, and future of the salt marsh that used to line the shores of the Mystic River. Participants will be invited to name other landscapes close to their hearts that were, are not now, but could be sites of ecological flourishing and empathetic human/plant mutual caretaking, and will leave with a gift of handcrafted printed windsocks to be brought back to these landscapes. All contributions will be recorded for later use on Marsh Radio Island's pirate radio station.
Stories of Warning, Stories of Care: Brooklyn
April 30 - May 21, 2016
Plotform continues our cross-species communication work with a new iteration of Stories of Warning, Stories of Care which will be on exhibit in the upcoming exhibition in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY: Emergent Ecologies.
The piece brings together four disparate projects:
1) a mobile 10’ foghorn woven out of salt marsh grass and beach detritus
2) a series of postcards witnessing watery beings contributed from around the world
3) a peripatetic performance of empathetic and warning stories and readings sent towards wetland and riparian habitats. Listen to an mp3 of the performance readings
4) a library of works capturing songs, narratives, poems, and theories about water, humans, and our place in and effect on a dynamic interconnected web of life. Collected together, these works seek to build and amplify empathetic relationships between humans and non-humans alike in the service of connection, collaboration, and action.
Exhibition info:
Emergent Ecologies
Kilroy Metal Ceiling
4/30/16 - 5/20/16
283 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, 11238
Plotform (Jane D. Marshing + Andi Sutton) joins 70 other artists for Emergent Ecologies, an exhibition that explores the environment and environmental futures vis a vis new rivets and cyborg articulations. Amidst collapsing systems, unruly assemblages are flourishing and proliferating in unexpected places. Emergences can also figure into collective hopes. When a forest is clear-cut by loggers or destroyed by a volcanic eruption, emergent plants are the first to sprout.
More information about the exhibition: https://www.facebook.com/events/223658904656992/
We want to make sure to thank all of the witnesses who contributed images, building, thought, and care to the project:
With: Amaya, Brandon Ballangee, Chris Bobel, Hannah Burr, Pincho Casanova, Casey Coleman, Andrea Davis, Catherine D’Ignazio, Annie Duffy, Libby Ellwood, Maria Finn, Anamarija Frankic, Tyler Giordano, Heather Green, Elizabeth Hansen, Hilary Hart, Sandy Huckleberry, Hiroko Kikuchi, Kim Landsbergen, Michele L'Heureux, Max Liboiron, Jane D. Marsching, Katherine Louise Mitchell, Macarena Montanez, Brack Morrow, Eve Mosher, Scout O'Beirne, Lalie S. Pascual, Susan Sakash, Shane Savage-Rumbaugh, Elin O’Hara Slavick, Candice Smith-Corby, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Sophie Steck, Andi Sutton, Kannan Thiruvengadam, Deb Todd Wheeler, Marion Wilson, Joan Wyand, and students at Stonehill College.
