http://lichenkelp.com/projects daily 1.0 2024-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508836321153-TEAQIMR7Q5400SMI6YN6/honey+honey.JPG Contents November 17, 2017 6.30pm - 8.30 pm at Testing Grounds; Honeyfingers screens video work and hosts live poetry writing + honey raku There are no words by Honeyfingers, above; bee edits, propolis, wax, honey, cardboard. Held over the mountains of Athens. Pic by Athenian beekeeper Kostas @bees.gr FSM 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508838306327-3VXZTGWBMQ0OGREUFFI8/bendy+ben+athens.png Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508827235968-9DC1GWJX2FDR3JMKUOJ8/anti+anti+kythira.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508823242440-CXKSHUFIJ6ENNJT1DUV5/belle+bassin.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512355019912-4KHIPL7NWLA5CTI4CQSU/ben+latraac.png Contents Night two of The Witch; collaborative dance piece by Benjamin Hancock with mic'ed up skate bowl and robot orchestra live soundtrack by Dylan Martorell and performances by local skaters at Latraac, Athens, for Forum of Sensory Motion, July 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508823127222-X97JI1CLGWZ20SHCI7OX/honey.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1513740911713-Y43S4ZKO1FVGF7YG9BBO/cuttlefish.jpg Contents image by Carl Charter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512343275626-X44QMZZ5EGLLGV6S5C4V/DSC_8682_2.jpg Contents Kelp D/J (Dylan Martorell, Lichen Kelp and Jason Hood) creating soundtrack and effects for performance with Benjamin Hancock at Testing Grounds, November 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512356521378-78UQI1K5U8EYSXSTMM09/IMG_8032.jpg Contents Participant experiencing the DIY VR installation and footage by Michael Candy and Belle Bassin For FSM Greece, Exit Gallery Athens, July 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512343751732-Z8T33CCYDL8IZXYA34H8/Kelp+D+staging.jpeg Contents Benjamin Hancock interacting with audience and live staging effects by Lichen Kelp at Testing Grounds, November 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486286467608-9POUR6V9VDR6ZQ04QPG9/Michael_Candy%2C_Digital_Empathy_Device%2C_2016._Photo_by_Dan_McCabe.jpg Contents Michael Candy, Digital Empathy Device, 2016   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1513742078715-JOJRHY8ES5K1A4D94B3B/Screenshot+2017-12-20+14.48.29.png Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1487286852134-V72OOBTO4KFPZL0GHLIR/n+g+work+with+me+here.jpg Contents Nathan Gray, Work With Me Here, RMIT Design Hub, in collaboration with SIBLING and Liquid Architecture, 2015 http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/program/nathan-gray-work-with-me-here/   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512341748508-NUYM28N5OZ592D4RH968/honeyfingers+audience+tg.jpeg Contents There is Room at The Table; audience detail receiving personalised poem from Honey Fingers at Testing Grounds for Forum of Sensory Motion, November 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486359447757-SG475LKF316NKOVJD604/image-asset.jpeg Contents Helen Hughes, Sketching : Bodies in Motion for Un Magazine http://unprojects.org.au/magazine/issues/issue-6-2/sketching-bodies-in-motion/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486707502641-LZ1768ZZBQPDSS0N7S0Z/image-asset.jpeg Contents Lichen Kelp, performance from the Colour Chemistry series, as part of Seen and Not Seen collaborative exhibition with Dylan Martorell, Lamington Drive, 2016   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512343332119-NDUKLVM6GMQL0GAYJ9H4/Kelp+D+nasturtiums.jpeg Contents Suspended Nasturtiums, Lichen Kelp with Kelp D/J and Benjamin Hancock at Testing Grounds, November 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512341613510-IVE0URTWE2515S0WIXYK/ouzo.jpeg Contents There is Room at The Table; Personalised live poetry writing, Honey Fingers at Testing Grounds for Forum of Sensory Motion November, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512341694163-8OPRLZEH10FEAY4R02NE/honeyfingers+TG1.jpeg Contents There is Room at The Table, Personalised live poetry writing, Honey Fingers at Testing Grounds for Forum of Sensory Motion November, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508896744792-7O1QBTMXO1GX8ZKYA7RL/bodyclock_bellebassin.gif Contents Bodyclock, above, filmed in Kythira Greece, June 2017. Screening at Testing Grounds, November 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508822224493-CJYXWOPP3MT5F2M1ZLU7/greekgoddess.jpg Contents collage by Inez Martorell, Greece 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508824157604-RJDKCM5LK3R0TFYIANW7/antikythira.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1494923637533-VDLNA43VAEA68MPZYSAK/image-asset.jpeg Contents Nic Dowse, Comb City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486458053654-3X2RYU6I7EMK8QS12QW4/image-asset.jpeg Contents Belle Bassin, Glass, biomorphic choreography, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2016 http://dancingumbrellas.heide.com.au/tagged/belle-bassin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486502699186-RT2HIH4PQM85MN076ZXH/image-asset.jpeg Contents Benjamin Hancock, Handovers + Translations, Open Studio, Glasshouse 2016 http://www.benjaminhancock.net/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1513739359667-NBEDZX4VYIVC3BWH17HJ/Ben+at+TG1.jpeg Contents Kelp D/J Shower Seen PArt 3 performance at Testing Grounds. This is a further development from a work devised in Athens as part of FSM Greece 17 by Benjamin Hancock, Dylan Martorell and Lichen Kelp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512343855139-UR8AMEFJY13IVRB56SFN/Kelp+Deluge.jpeg Contents Deluge by Dylan Martorell; Kelp D/J at Testing Grounds November 2017   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486502371298-5BVGGUDUWGEKIKN58IRW/image-asset.jpeg Contents Helen Hughes, co-founder and co-editor of the Melbourne contemporary art journal, Discipline http://www.discipline.net.au/ http://www.artdes.monash.edu.au/people/helen-hughes.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508824462050-29KLRK9ESQ7CPUBG6HBT/mmm+candy.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512349019052-7KZW2DKQ9KB6NDP2KBLX/Screen+Shot+2017-10-08+at+22.39.39+%281%29.png Contents Nathan Gray, The Mechanism, 2017, screening at Testing Grounds throughout November 2017, during opening hours.   IN 1901 a mysterious device is found in a Roman shipwreck of the island of Antikythera. In 1974 a science fiction author has a revelation that reality is an illusion controlled by an ancient roman machine called the Black Iron Prison. In 2028 a prominent technologist gives a press conference to announce he has died and is addressing his audience from an augmented reality network called After-life. This complex narrative weaves together historical research, philosophical enquiry and speculation on future events.   The Mechanism is a new Short Film By Nathan Gray that juxtaposes narration over hypnotic video shot in Greece, Germany and Australia. It was developed over the last 3 months with the help of ZK/U, Berlin and The Forum for Sensory Motion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512343688509-174FDRL5FZ5M6SG7HD7L/Kelp+D+incubating.jpeg Contents Benjamin Hancock with Kelp D/J at Testing Grounds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508821859560-04FZDNWNG0B2Y7H214Q5/ArtParty_3+Nov+17.jpeg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1508837568638-LCXBKRPJQ824RJUDVHO0/Animals+Dancing+poem+by+Honeyfingers Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486873628680-33436TLWFJ4MGGMQZJV0/DM+kochi+muziris.jpg Contents Dylan Martorell, touch based electronics, Kochi Muzuris Biennale 2012/13, Kerala, India Transience, improvisation and collaboration form the basis of Dylan Martorell’s music-based art practice. Housed within the conceptual framework of a musical diaspora, his work is drawn to ways in which music travels through space and is affected by changes in geography, climate, culture and materials to become an agent for cross-cultural reciprocation. Focusing on the use of site-specific gleaned materials and incorporating elements of upcycling, DIY culture, robotics, and alternative power sources, Martorell’s recent projects conducted in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, India and Australia have focused on concepts of transience, portability and sustainability. dylanmartorellexhibitions.blogspot.com.au   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1512341831527-87CU5100JN8XZ5UKZGB7/smoken.jpeg Contents Burning Paperbark for There is Room at The Table, poetry writing performance by Honey Fingers at Testing Grounds for Forum of Sensory Motion November, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1494924941044-EYO1CZPBD2R9MV09H8QV/image-asset.jpeg Contents Nic Dowse, Wet Vs Dry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486283998184-B38TNB9PS2J72TBK8YUS/roda2.JPG Contents Tall Bikes, Bike Parade, Yogyakarta, Roda Roda Soundsystem, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486285724704-5VVO6QGRXSZB1KW9Q901/image-asset.jpeg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486284923907-K1JHKTXCKYPFIZ7YELNV/image-asset.jpeg Contents Project Co-ordinator extraordinaire; Andry Kurniawan Thanks to the tall bikes and the low riders, fixies and those who raced around the Alun Alun Selatan! Special thanks Jogya project coordinator Boy and Lovehatelove (Rolly) to Malik and Tono, Tika and Tim and Raquel and Kristy and the ILMU festival and Marcus and mas Rod Choopah also to Made Bayak and Heri Dono. Thank you all who joined in and who played at the well attended gig at the wonderful institution that is Survive Garage. Thanks Bayu and crew. Thank you to Memet and Dub Youth and Tawazun and the incredible Dena for the awesome inpromtpu mcing.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486284787152-OLKTMTWQNCT8NPG6U8SM/das+butchers+bike.JPG Contents Hair Bike by Das Butcher, Roda Roda Soundsystem, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486283775771-JXQ3K9HQ9OU4MRRC9GXB/Babek+bike.jpg Contents Anak Babek, cargo bike for children musicians, Roda Roda Soundsystem Bike Parade, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2010. Lichen Kelp collaboration with Heri Dono.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486276792089-CZWBC8JYLOXCKA31VWI9/pepperhouse.jpg Contents Established in 2014 by Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell, KochiAIR is an artist residency program held in Kochi, Kerala, India. The program is held in Pepperhouse studios and supported by the Kochi Muziris Biennale. The residency is self initiated and self funded by Lichen Kelp and Dylan Martorell. Artists are encouraged to apply for individual funding to attend. In 2017 the residency will be curated by Simon Spain and Victoria Ryle, who are introducing a Tasmanian and Keralan artist residency reciprocal agreement. image of Pepperhouse Studios by Lichen Kelp more information; https://www.facebook.com/Kochiair-750875784963607/?fref=ts http://kochiair.blogspot.com.au/ http://www.biennialfoundation.org/biennials/kochi-muziris-biennale-india/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1517108478507-8WAKR89WMHDIS6GAF8IN/IANPOTTER2017_Systems+Garden+Concert+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-106_preview.jpeg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1517104429602-KQR8LEX2LSZGCXP0PZC9/8+Kelp+D+ben+balloon.jpeg Contents Incubating Ice Eggs. Bendy Ben in collaboration with Kelp D/J (Lichen Kelp, Dylan Martorell and sometime band member Jason Hood) at Testing Grounds for Forum of Sensory Motion's artist residency program. November 2017. Pics by Keelan O'Hehir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1537840143140-ZYRPIJZC09LPR1EDSMAP/Lichen+Kelp+-+Lake+Mountain+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+Full+Rez++%28239%29.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1537347610801-MTH11OROFTV23I1M0V2Y/spirit+keepers.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1537879511157-F05489MC2U96AB7OPM4J/Kelp+DJ_Romy+Fox_Slow+Art+Collective+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-18.jpg Contents Kelp D, electronic ikebana, at MPavillion more images here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1534832202209-AYXGVIBSM1NC8PSM0T6B/salt%2Blake%2Bhaines.jpg Contents In May 2018 Forum of Sensory Motion set out on a road trip with a group of diverse artists, performers, photographers and musicians for an interstate, interspecies collaborative art adventure, set in the salty coastal plains of remote South Australia. All colour photos by David Haines, unless otherwise specified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1538140685496-UDZA62SWW6SLIRAAV5UB/Kelp+DJ_Romy+Fox_Slow+Art+Collective+%28Keelan+O%27Hehir%29+-152.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1544414095259-YZDMQ676BV4PBJV6Q21P/y+plnt+dbl.jpg Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1571626817666-X2T42QHUHZQXNRE37MYT/Anna_Atkins_algae_cyanotype.jpg Contents The Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi) The society will operate as a mobile learning lab connecting artists with experts such as marine biologists and kelp farmers with the aim of extending awareness and exploring options to assist in regenerating marine habitats. It will involve excursions, designing a logo, kelp snacking, hive mind planning, more excursions, underwater photography, seaweed drinks, seaweed fashions, finding a clubhouse, planning a cooperative floating kelp farm that can also host artists as well as straight up schooling. The inaugural meeting was held in May 2019 at Florence Peel Hall in Fitzroy and was cohosted by Lichen Kelp and Danni Zuvela as part of Liquid Architecture’s Why Listen to Animals program. Since then we have had groupings at Siteworks, Brunswick, presented at the Jaffle Symposium, Testing Grounds and held a seaweed forage in Point Cook Coastal Park. Lichen Kelp also presented a talk on the Kelp Highway for Matters Journal at Abootsford Convent and co-presented a 7 part seaweed feast at Lake Tyers Tavern, East Gippsland with Mat Bate, as part of a Forum of Sensory Motion residency with FLOAT. Forum of Sensory Motion will continue to host travelling iterations of the program. In 2020 Lichen Kelp will travel with SASi to hold a Forum of Sensory Motion residency with 10 artists in Chile, where the Atacama desert meets the ocean. We are also continuing to hold talks, presentations and workshops out of community spaces around Melbourne and Australia and forages and snorkelling trips around the country. So if you would like to come or you would like to host a meet up, in Melbourne or beyond, or have any ideas, links or people SASi should meet who may like to assist please let us know. Also please be aware that you don't have to be an artist or an algae expert to join, being Marine bio-curious is qualification enough! 1843 cyanotype algae image by legendary botanist, algae enthusiast and possibly first female photographer Anna Atkins. more SASi information here; Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi) and regular updates on Instagram @seaweed_appreciation_society and facebook SASI/Seaweed Appreciation Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1484978684668-F0S3U7K9HBFHOCX74LDO/IMG_5538.JPG Contents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1534840388392-97U1J53J42SFE652HEML/IMG_20180821_130102.jpg Contents Liquid Landscaping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1594522603233-O4YD0MRDZQVPDYT6TGSS/LK+Ice+Frame+2.jpg Contents This is an ongoing series of documentation of studio experimentation, working towards an exhibition titled Landscapes in Liquidation. The show will feature sculptural photographic works depicting liquid landscapes of submersed local botanicals, immortal jellyfish and mating cephalopods in a state of melting, subliming, foaming and bubbling. The works are to be accompanied by a live performance of experimental imbibable fluids. I received a City of Melbourne Covid 19 Quick Response grant to develop exhibitable, sculptural forms of documentation from the chemistry performances, experimental studio processes and aquatic art adventures that have defined my work for the past three years, as a means to share work that has previously only existed in ephemeral and digital form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1575446351242-6P0LC1GOSYPTM7BWDW6W/MULCH+kelp+1.JPG Contents MULCH; System Garden Picnic. Kelp D performance with Benjamin Hancock. Featuring flowers from the System Garden and edible plants from the artists home garden, Lichen Kelp created an electronic ikebana performance, giving musical agency to plants to respond to Dylan Martorell’s soundtrack of synthesisers, sequencers and samplers. Dancer Benjamin Hancock and the audience were provided with plant vision monocles - providing a photosynthetic, multicellular moire view of the performance. MULCH also featured Kirlian plant aura photographs and molecular perfumes based on exotic plants found in the System Garden by David Haines, as well as a poetry and Lemon Myrtle tea ceremony by Honeyfingers (urban beekeeper Nic Dowse) in the gardens tower, a durational palm planting performance by Loren Kronemyer (Pony Express) and musical performances by Lisa Lerkenfeldt and Tim Coster. The garden curator Tim Uebergang led a tour of the System Garden and Jean Pierre Scheerlink gave a talk about the bees and hives that he tends on the university grounds. MULCH was presented as part of Ian Potters Inside Out series and curated by Lichen Kelp. More information here; https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/mulch-performance-picnic image by Inez Martorell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1553468848585-2JOT7H8RIX9LBYDDYKFE/pink-lake-hero-shot.jpg Contents Stranded. Pink Lake Brunswick. Frozen algae bloom water from the lake under Westgate Bridge. In hot weather salinity in the lake increases until conditions create an algae bloom that temporarily changes the water colour dramatically. I visited the lake for the first time this year. I made up for lost time and went on three occasions. The first time I took some of my ice sculptures to the waters edge to photograph. I took water samples home and returned with frozen blocks that had transformed slightly in colour, meanwhile the lake had intensified to a colour that seemed as dark and milky as it was possible for a pink to get. The third time I took pink objects to create a pink-ometer, attempting to measure the pinkness and then I took one last water sample, knowing that I would not be returning while the lake was still pink. This sample I combined with grasses and driftwood from the lakes perimeter to create a frozen biomodel. While ice sculptures are generally considered to be ephemeral, in this instance the ice is less ephemeral than the environment it borrows from. As the lake under the bridge returns to its regular industrial water hues this small lake slab has returned to my freezer where it will continue to be pink until the freezer is switched off or the power goes out or it melts away under a communal gaze. This A2 icescape has given me the feels and got me thinking about the implications and ethics of speeding up and slowing down, replicating, reimagining and inverting natural processes and the value of experimentation in art combined with/versus science where my research and investigation are carried out without an emphasis on answers. My knowledge on my current research topics is always temporarily intense (hot pink) during research until the information dissipates, the colours flatten out and the curiosity relocates. My empathy lies with the lake, quaking in its existence under heavy traffic, having being reshaped by outside forces, undergoing regeneration and awaiting the next transformation. #lichenkelp and @dylanmartorelll are currently recording a soundtrack to accompany video footage of the pink lake trips by @hypertext.87 http://lichenkelp.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2021-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1575434916677-4P2SCL0HSDOWTN0UYVXH/squidlighthouse-x-comp-712x475.jpg Curatorial Projects For the last few years Lichen Kelp has been curating programs that return art to some of its fundamental sources of inspiration and materiality - soil, plants and the ocean. These environmentally focused events, community engagements, collaborations and residencies include MULCH, the Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi), University of Melbourne Herbarium residency, BioMutualism, School of Untourism and FLOAT residencies. More details can be found in the following links… Pictured: cephaloPOD19; FSM x La artist camp. In 2018, Lichen Kelp organised an artist road trip to witness the mating displays of the Giant Cuttlefish in Whyalla, South Australia as part of Forum of Sensory Motion’s series of travelling residencies. In 2019 she teamed with Liquid Architecture curator Danni Zuvela to return with another group of artists. This trip was funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Lichen returned for her third trip a month later, in July 2019, . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1575434916677-4P2SCL0HSDOWTN0UYVXH/squidlighthouse-x-comp-712x475.jpg Curatorial Projects For the last few years Lichen Kelp has been curating programs that return art to some of its fundamental sources of inspiration and materiality - soil, plants and the ocean. These environmentally focused events, community engagements, collaborations and residencies include MULCH, the Seaweed Appreciation Society international (SASi), University of Melbourne Herbarium residency, BioMutualism, School of Untourism and FLOAT residencies. More details can be found in the following links… Pictured: cephaloPOD19; FSM x La artist camp. In 2018, Lichen Kelp organised an artist road trip to witness the mating displays of the Giant Cuttlefish in Whyalla, South Australia as part of Forum of Sensory Motion’s series of travelling residencies. In 2019 she teamed with Liquid Architecture curator Danni Zuvela to return with another group of artists. This trip was funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Lichen returned for her third trip a month later, in July 2019, . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1573512343174-I2IJ489Y2VED0US0SW5T/David+Haines+kirlian+J.jpg Curatorial Projects MULCH: System Garden Performance Picnic Performance chemist and curator Lichen Kelp brought together an eclectic range of artists for an afternoon of live art and sonic performance in the University of Melbourne System Garden – an oasis in the heart of the Parkville campus. David Haines, Loren Kronemyer (Pony Express), Lisa Lerkenfeldt, Tim Coster, Honeyfingers (Nic Dowse), Kelp D and Benjamin Hancock presented a series of site-specific works in conversation with the plants and local ecologies of the Garden. Chemical reactions, improvised movement, experimental electronics, beekeeping, poetry and perfumery all combined in a dynamic program of esoteric and scientific investigation. The System Garden Picnic was presented by Forum of Sensory Motion as part of The Potter’s 2019 Inside Out program, generously supported by Peter Jopling AM QC, Andy Zhang and Calvin Huang. Image; David Haines. Wollemi Kirlians (detail) courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery more information here: forumofsensorymotion.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1622531416613-90RD9Q89NLKYM8AYCYYL/seaweed+women.jpeg Curatorial Projects SASi: Seaweed Appreciation Society international In 2019 Lichen established the Seaweed Appreciation Society international as an experimental mobile platform for the artistic research of marine algae. SASi are dedicated to group learning through bringing together people from a range of disciplines including marine biologists, artists, chefs, architects, writers and designers to explore, study, taste and forage a vast array of seaweeds. SASi are focused on gathering and sharing knowledge, research and experience. The role and potential of seaweed as a vital asset for rehabilitating oceans is a key focus of SASi’s research and we trace the cultural history of human-seaweed relations to situate our knowledge and practice. As often as possible we take the discussions outside, leading seaside forages, research roadtrips and engaging conversations around the campfire. Through our various SASi events we seek to present a heightened experience of seaweed through our taste-buds, down microscope lenses, wading through intertidal zones, immersed in kelp baths, reading seaweed stories and imbibing briny beers and pig face gins from kelp based cups. We are excited to collaborate with chefs, designers, architects, brewers, distillers, artists and scientists to dream up new concoctions for a sustainable seaweed future. Pictured: participants at SASI’s Jaffle Symposium at Testing Grounds photo by Marina Lamari http://lichenkelp.com/about daily 0.75 2025-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5882f6ccdb29d6b295c2d282/1486197172706-3TXJU52N7HB0FD1KNA2A/Seen+and+Not+Seen+Performance+with+live+soundtrack+by+Dylan+Martorell About Image detail from Kelping Performance from Seen and Not Seen 2016, collaboration with Dylan Martorell . Photo courtesy of Lamington Drive. http://lichenkelp.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2020-04-27 http://lichenkelp.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2024-08-09 http://lichenkelp.com/new-page daily 0.75 2025-02-06