WHY-EEELA

from Ian Gibbins / Added 1 month ago 191 4 0

'im an' 'im an' me a'ways in wide-blue out low-a-drift clou's all windfeath'ry The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhyncus funereus) has a distinctive, relaxed…

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Eviction

from Ian Gibbins / Added 4 months ago 244 5 0

"We have been ordered to leave. They told us our lease has expired. Their cast-offs litter our landscapes. We have our ways of keeping out of sight. These are our microrefugia..." As human-induced…

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The Taken Path - an open-ended experiment in observation and embodied experience

from Ian Gibbins / Added 7 months ago 64 2 0

The Carrick Hill estate, nestled on unceded Kaurna land in the foothills of Adelaide, South Australia, presents a conundrum of the delicate connections between humans and the greater environment.…

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Are we there yet?

from Ian Gibbins / Added 8 months ago 104 7 3

The Anthropocene has been defined as the geologic period where the environmental effects of humans can be found preserved in the sediments of the earth. However there is considerable debate around…

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Types of Rain

from Ian Gibbins / Added 8 months ago 158 5 1

"Types of Rain 1. Outside the range of normal atmospheric conditions: (a) recently discovered caves (b) anti-cyclones on Mars (c) water columns, three kilometres deep..." As…

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Because We Can

from Ian Gibbins / Added 8 months ago 134 6 1

"We purify, filter, sift, rectify, unburden... stupefy, impose, stun, devastate, overwhelm... radiate, bewitch..." But why? Why do we cause so much damage to our own environment, and then…

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Cuando Fui Clandestino / When I Was Clandestine

from Ian Gibbins / Added 3 years ago 197 12 0

"Mi verso lo engendran las noches de toque de queda... Nadie sospechó de mis estudios internacionales. O sino salgo hecho carbón en la parrilla, de aquella Casa de la Tortura del…

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The Taken Path: a durational project

from Ian Gibbins / Added 3 years ago 34 3 1

The Taken Path: a durational project by Catherine Truman and Ian Gibbins, 2022-2023 A speculative, durational project that hangs of a poetic idea: what would we notice if we walked the same path,…

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REELpoetry 2023: Ecopoetry Films and Subjectivity - Behind the Making Process: Trailer

from Ian Gibbins / Added 3 years ago 42 9 0

Ian Gibbins (Australia), Mary McDonald (Canada) and Sarah Tremlett (UK) discuss their poetry films concerning the devastating effects of climate change and their varying approaches to making poetry…

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Space Invaders

from Ian Gibbins / Added 3 years ago 135 3 0

"Dropping in from 12 o'clock high, you will barely notice our arrival... We will reduce all communication to compromise and distant comets... Already you can see the places we have been...…

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The Grey Box

from Ian Gibbins / Added 3 years ago 115 9 0

Throughout South Eastern Australia, woodlands with Grey Box are under threat by habitat destruction and climate change. Several nationally endangered Grey Box woodland communities occur around Belair…

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ANOMALY

from Ian Gibbins / Added 3 years ago 136 8 1

As a consequence of anthropogenic global warming, we will be faced with rises in sea level that will inundate our coastal regions, causing major environmental change and loss of habitat for humans…

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