Leave your memories and murmurings with the moss...
Mosses are ancient prehistoric beings, with histories dating back to 350 million years. Mosses have survived and thrived through severe climate changes - from ice ages to fires.
Mosses are agents in air filtration, cleansing our shared air, from dust, carbon and pollutants.
What can we learn from the mosses so that we too might thrive within collapse?
How can we enter into a dialogue with the moss?
How can we co-create new spaces of emergence?
Share a story with the mosses.
Tell the moss about your day.
Send a memory to the mosses.
Ask a question to the mosses.
Release your mossy melancholies...
“There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the "dialect of moss on stone - an interface of immensity and minute ness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yan.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Let the mosses digest your memories, your joys, your melancholies.
You are invited to consider how we might enter into a dialogue with other than human beings? To consider our collective human and non-human memories of place? To consider what we might learn from the mosses?
Moss acts as one of the best air filtration systems in existence, consuming pollutants, carbon and fine dust particles and breathing out oxygen. The moss is an active agent in both filtering the air and creating a breathing space where people can find some refuge.
These audio collections will be digested by the mosses and collaborators and made into a sound score that will form part of ‘Breathing Space, Moving Space, Resting Space’ an installation, opening as part of SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity – a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery in Lismore CBD, July to September 2023.
You can leave your message anonymously or with your name. The audio you leave will be treated with deep care and will only be used for the purpose of creating the ‘Breathing Space’ sound score.
This work is being made collaboratively by various species of mosses and humans Merinda Davies and Mitch King.
If you would like to stay up to date on this project stay in touch here
This artwork is growing on Widjabul/Wiabal land of the Bundjalung Nation and acknowledges their continuing deep connections to the many lands, water ways, seas and communities that make up this place. Always was, always will be.
This project is part of SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity – a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery. SITE LAB is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, with financial and in-kind support from Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery..
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Moss acts as one of the best air filtration systems in existence, consuming pollutants, carbon and fine dust particles and breathing out oxygen. The moss is an active agent in both filtering the air and creating a breathing space where people can find some refuge.
These audio collections will be digested by the mosses and collaborators and made into a sound score that will form part of ‘Breathing Space, Moving Space, Resting Space’ an installation, opening as part of SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity – a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery in Lismore CBD, July to September 2023.
You can leave your message anonymously or with your name. The audio you leave will be treated with deep care and will only be used for the purpose of creating the ‘Breathing Space’ sound score.
This work is being made collaboratively by various species of mosses and humans Merinda Davies and Mitch King.
If you would like to stay up to date on this project stay in touch here
This artwork is growing on Widjabul/Wiabal land of the Bundjalung Nation and acknowledges their continuing deep connections to the many lands, water ways, seas and communities that make up this place. Always was, always will be.
This project is part of SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity – a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery. SITE LAB is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, with financial and in-kind support from Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery..
