THE GREAT CONVERSATION (STILL, AS SOMEONE PASSES BY)
collaboration with Marleen Boschen, Charles Pryor & Lou-Atessa Marcellin
2020

3rd of October 2020

Created as a podcast
for Diaspore

Performed as part of the programme 'Scenes of the World' at Coco Velten for Les Parallèles Du Sud, Manifesta 13
Marseille, France


Text and imagery: Marleen Boschen and Charles Pryor
Sound composition:
Sara Rodrigues
Live performance and sound: Lou-Atessa Marcellin and Sara Rodrigues


The piece follows the soil as a narrator and witness to the unfolding histories of human cultivation practices and environmental acts of violences. It seeks to make audible the soil as a living global infrastructure, a container for past and present cultivation knowledges and extraction processes and how these stories can be told through something we often unknowingly depend on for the survival of humans and non-human ecologies alike. This project is born out of a larger research-led film project titled A Womb of Things to be and a Tomb of Things that were by artists Charles Pryor and Marleen Boschen which combines elements of historical and scientific research with speculative fiction about seeds and conservation during times of ecological breakdown.



























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