Water and life are intimately connected on Earth. Seas and oceans have been elements of division and geographical separation. At the same time, they have culturally and historically connected people and cultures. Today, networked technologies connect cultures and people, but for centuries boat and sea routes have represented the longest-range connection network.
Since 2018, the project “Dialogues across the Seas” has explored the cataclysmic changes undergone by our very diverse seas in different corners of the planet, and how they manifest many uncanny similarities that end up connecting us all. To map these connections, we have used a series of tangible research interventions (art installations, conferences, and publications) at the intersection of art and science. The common denominator of these interventions is water, the ocean and the sea broadly understood, and the populations of humans and non-humans connected through their fluidity and living in their proximity.
Our next intervention will be a series of thematic print/digital publications. Our goal is to trouble monolithic/ monothematic/ homogeneous perspectives on the sea, the ocean and water.
We want your help! Please, send us (max 250 words) proposals for brief articles, literature and fiction, and artifacts by October 1, 2025
Send proposals and inquiries to Roberta Buiani at rbuiani@gmail.com
Suggested (not limited) topics: sea crossing, displacement, and migrations; north-south seas; sea/water as metaphor; the many ways different cultures resonate with/perceive the sea/the ocean; non-human life underwater; sea/water ecologies; underwater technologies and extractivism; decolonizing the sea; the abyss and space; climate change and water/ocean.
More: https://artscisalon.com/dialogues/
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