under a sea that swallows
[in conversation with the Embassy of the North Sea and Stichting Doggerland]
under a sea that swallows engages the voice of the Atlantic Eel, an endangered species, to surface the memories of those who inhabited the once fertile, now submerged Doggerland. The Eel, foreseeing passenger in a sea that swallows, is the teller of a cautionary tale, bridging past and future. This project uses more-than-human storytelling, appropriated moving image, and sonic representations of the human body. More-than-human storytelling is used to foster a continuum between the human and the more-than-human and to motivate self-conscious attendance to the impact of humanness through an alternative lens. The appropriation of moving image is symbolic of humans’ appropriative nature. The intentionally human soundscape—a composition built from data from genetic sequencing and medical examination readings—subverts the use of the more-than-human to unidirectionally benefit the human while simultaneously representing ideas of care and healing. under a sea that swallows aims to increase a willingness to be more informed about the present and future of the Doggerbank and the impacts that those have on the lives of both the more-than-human and the human.
stills from video + installation images at paradise, the hague (july, 2024)
Anastasiya Miseyko
Anastasiya Miseyko