sarahwaterson

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  • Date
  • October 23, 2023

WeatherState

WeatherState is an ongoing project that critically investigates senses of place within the vast heterotopias of the world oceans. In the face of the climate crisis, these enigmatic realms hold profound significance as regulators of global temperatures, absorbing carbon dioxide, shaping weather patterns, and world trade. They act as analogous spaces, as isomorphs for the …

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Laika's Dérive Best In Show Event photo
  • Date
  • March 15, 2021

Laika’s Dérive

Laika’s Dérive is a new media locative data-mapping work about interspecies communication, collaboration and knowledge. Community participants and their dogs use an electronic mapping system (custom iPhone app-GPS, accelerometer, interval timed and geotagged photography) within their local area. The data collected is incorporated into the online mapping and visualisation system (website) together with the participant …

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  • Date
  • February 15, 2021

Laika’s Dérive 1.0 – Kiss Club Residency: practice ecologies– Initial research and prototyping

In 2010 I was invited to be an artist in residence at Kiss Club, a studio residency hosted by Performance Space in Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. The residency (with its working space) allowed me time to focus on developing and delivering a new work. Up to that point I was producing works for predominantly gallery settings. …

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