OUTSHIFT

Living Coast Residency 2022

​commissioned by Fabrica, ONCA and The Living Coast Biosphere
Benfield Valley Project
///ramp.lush.areas
safe island.little paths
​off.blackbirds in conversation
Spooler interactives: best on a touch screen
​///eager.wonderfully.daily
trees all the way to the sea.grasses headbanging at a concert.strawberry moon rising
Helen Forester from Benfield Valley Project tells me its hard to put across the value of a green space in terms of its health giving qualities, despite research that quantifies the levelling effect easy access to green space has on income based health disparity.
Coldean Community Organisation
///latest.earth.wisely
raw.nature.being.aweso
me
Spooler interactives: best on a touch screen
"It's your own small landscape that you can actually enact change on. I think microcosm is the right word to describe the shimmer and that touches an emotional place that not many things do." Lawrence Leather, climate activist and chalk grassland restorer
Wilding ​Waterhall
///drums.bliss.shadow
anthill.Rockrose.Cistus Forester.chalk grassland seedban
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Spooler interactives: best on a touch screen

Do biodiverse landscapes give of more of a shimmer? Could the shimmer index of a site be a shorthand for its health-giving properties?

"You never feel alone out here." Kim Greaves, Friends of Waterhall
As resident for The Living Coast, I went looking for "shimmer*," natural phenomena that catch our eye and hold our attention, a shorthand for intangible ways biodiverse environments act on our physical and mental health. ​

The Yolngu term bir'yan, translated as ‘shimmer’ or 'brilliance,' describes the way the eye is captured by the ‘rippling intra-activity’ of lively relationships honed over millennia. (Deborah Bird Rose, 'Shimmer,' Edinburgh University Press 2022) 

I walked
 with local land guardians who work with their communities to defend nearby wild, mapping what3words /// locations to these conversations and creating spooler interactives of shimmer found, published as a five day Instagram take-over for Fabrica Gallery and shown on ONCA Barge.
Heartfelt thanks to Polly Eason, Coldean Community Organisation, Helen Forester, Benfield Valley Project and Kim Greaves, Friends of Waterhall.
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