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Antarctica's more-than-human stories
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About the research

For the last three years, in collaborative artistic research supported by the British Academy and Oxford's John Fell Fund, we have been exploring the idea of a 'more-than-human story' of Antarctica. Drawing on our theoretical work about how stories emerge from the entangled relations between makers, materials, and environments, we devised a participatory workshop model and gathered two groups of artists and scientists to make multimodal short form pieces. 

Stories

A painting using wash effects to create stripes of many colours blended together. At the top are muted colours, blues, greys, blacks. At the bottom bright colours, dominated by reds, yellows, pinks.

The Book of Voices

Jane Burn is an independent scholar and hybrid practitioner. Existence at intersections between creativity and disability have drawn her into myriad approaches to the gathering and creative presentation of research.
Rectangles of different patterns cut from magazines are arranged in a grid pattern on a bright blue background.

Glacier tongue

Branwell Roberts is a poet and PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania. For their thesis they are producing a collection of poems about Antarctic history.
Still from a stop frame animation showing a whale breaching the sea, with a red sky.

Whalesong

Pluto Liu is a PhD student in marine science at the University of Otago. They are using genomic methods to study the connectivity of kelp populations around the Southern Ocean, and modelling if they will reach Antarctica in the warming future.
A dark underwater scene

APART

Alina Botezatu is a postgraduate researcher based at the University of Stirling, working at the intersection of critical heritage and museum studies. Her PhD project is focused on the Trinity House of Leith in collaboration with Historic Scotland.
Drawing of moss fronds growing from rock

Bound Together

Annie Rapstoff is a visual artist living in Oxfordshire. She is interested in responding to place and explores interrelationships with other beings, including animals, plants, trees and rocks. Annie works with performance, text, voice, video and stitch.
A hand draws an Enso with a paintbrush

Media Not Found

Jane Thomas is a writer, poet, and creative health advocate exploring the intersection of nature, grief and human experience. Her work often focuses on how environmental and personal landscapes shape one another, particularly in times of change.
Whales breach in grey ocean

WAVES

Rebecca Frik is studying an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at the University of Oxford (UK). She holds a BA in Spanish, Philosophy and Earth Sciences from the University of Wuppertal (Germany).
Pink toned glacier in front of a snowy mountain

We Must Do It Afraid

Taugul born and London based, Olga Mun is a co-convenor of the Climate Change Education Reading Group at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.