Seaweed Economy: Creative & Cultural Practice
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Artists, designers, and science-artists working creatively with seaweed.
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Slimy Futures
Catherine Euale (Slimy Futures) is a bio-artist, material researcher and science communicator based in the east coast of Turtle Island. Her practice explores marine algae as a source of biocompatible, water-responsive materials, from sodium alginate films and bioyarn to solid kelp-gellant vessels and laser-cut composite sheets. Rooted in more-than-human design and a decade of biofabrication work, her work emerges at the intersection of art, ecology and speculative design. As a materials based practitioner, her projects are less objects and more living archives of what algae can become and how we can relate to our built environment as part of a larger living ecosystem. She teaches bioplastics workshops, mentors emerging biodesigners, and creates innovative materials like self-powering algae-based electronics. She facilitates exhibitions and workshops as a way of inviting people to touch, question and imagine new relationships with our underwater kin.
Dana Mulder
Dana Mulder is a mother, an elementary school teacher and a curious learner. Of Dutch and Scottish settler origins, she is based in her hometown of Vancouver, the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. As a guest on these lands, walking with love and reverence for the diversity and beauty of the West Coast, she practices her art of seaweed pressing thoughtfully and in relationship with the land. Dana’s work is a celebration of seaweed biodiversity, captured through centuries old techniques of pressing and cyanotype printing.
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