SEMINAR: SymbioticA Friday Seminar 'Adaptation'

In a broad scoping of issues surrounding life and ecology, SymbioticA’s long term project ‘Adaptation’, opens important dialogue and debate surrounding human inaction, intervention, responses and responsibilities to the world at large.

This week’s Friday Seminar will discuss ‘Adaptation’ and the narratives that surround Lake Clifton, current projects, brokering new collaborative partners in the community and within UWA, and the call for expressions of interest.

With climate change hinting at catastrophic results to some life forms (while others may benefit) it is the capability to adapt which is an advantage for the future. Embedded in Lake Clifton, south of Mandurah, Western Australia, ‘Adaptation’ proposes a dynamic program of production-based artist residencies and events with a vibrant outreach and community program. Lake Clifton, as a location and a metaphor, offers a microcosmic peak into the broader issues of ecology and life itself.

Perdita Phillips’ three dimensional audio soundscape tour ‘The Sixth Shore’ engages with the physical and social environment allowing the ground position and orientation of a participant to influence the soundscape that they hear. The SymbioticA Research Group’s Desalination Project is a kinetic sculpture commenting on the use of technological advances to circumvent Lake Clifton from the effects of salinity, climate change and urban development.

SymbioticA is currently calling for expressions of interest in the ‘Adaptation’ project and is encouraging applications from practitioners from all artforms. Deadline: 31 March. http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/adaptation/eoi The Desalination Project and The Sixth Shore are supported by Australia Council for the Arts, The Western Australian Government’s Department of Culture and the Arts, The Sidney Myer Fund and The Mandurah City Council. For more information on Adaptation, visit: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/adaptation