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    Whale Fall Feast (Dear Climate)

    2021

    Marine debris, plastic bags, metal signs, CNC cut wood, mini-golf turf

    In collaboration with Blake Goble, B-Space
    Documentation: Jakob Dahlin

    Commissioned by Putting Green, NY

    https://dearclimate.net/installations/whale-fall-feast
    This work is part of the project:

    When a whale dies and sinks, its carcass creates an entire ecosystem on the ocean floor, nourishing thousands of organisms. Ocean pollution affects this process and disrupts the food chain, impacting species from krill to whales. Whales are some of the longest living mammals on the planet, with lifespans from 10 to 200 years. When…

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    Animal Testimony: Cetaceans Between the Interspecies and the Inhuman

    2022

    Essay with illustrations and artwork

    https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/lyotard-and-critical-practice-9781350192027/

    Co-authored by Margret Grebowicz and Marina Zurkow for the book Lyotard and Critical Practice, Kiff Bamford and Margret Grebowicz, editors. Bloomsbury, 2022

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    A Liquid Wanting

    2022

    Sound, 28 minutes

    Written and Performed by Anna Rose Hopkins and Marina Zurkow
    Editing, production, and sound design: Pejk Malinovski
    Original sound contributions: Scott Reitherman

    Additional vocal performances: Kenneth Bailey, Aaron Burns, Una Chaudhuri, El Glasberg, Aria Michener, Ava Michener, Justin Michener, Liam Michener

    ASL interpretation: Darius Doe

    Special thanks to Stacy Alaimo, Lindsey Allen, Imani Black, Elizabeth Bishop, Una Chaudhuri, Jon Cohrs, Becca Franks, Christopher Hibma, Henry Fischer, Miles Freeman, Dylan Gauthier, Jennifer Jacquet, Kwonyin, Steve Mentz, Katie Pearl, Jose Rosero, Carrie Roble, Lauren Ruffin, Abigail Simon, Nancy Sowinski, Suzanne Thorpe, and Paola Zanzo

    Found sources: Gravity Music, Lao Tzu, Alphonso Lingis, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, WeTM, Heathcote Williams

    Originally commissioned by the FoodxFilm Festival and the Guild of Future Architects, in support of Good Food For All and the United Nations Food Systems Summit

    This work is part of the project:

    “A Liquid Wanting” is a 28 minute audio theater work exploring the lives of ocean beings and the ocean itself as a planetary force, prompting listeners to dissolve, mutate and transform as they are led through imagined embodiments—from human to sea cucumber to marine snow to whale.

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    A Swarm Is My Bonnet

    A Swarm Is My Bonnet

    2017

    2 Nylon banners, 42” x 84” each

    Permanently installed at The Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, Mass.

    Right whale identification relies on the distinct pattern, known as a callosity, that each whale displays like a blazon on the back of their head. These are rough skin patches — callouses. Whalers called them “bonnets.” Each whale is born with their callous-formation, which grows pitted and grooved like volcanic terrain over time. Callosities would…

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    Whalewaste

    2017
    https://whalewaste.tumblr.com/archive

    In 2017 I audited a class at ITP (the Interactive Telecommunications Program), Tisch School of the Arts, NYU called “100 Days of Making” led by Katherine Dillon. The class is structured just as the title proclaims: 100 days of unique creative outputs. It is a relentless process, one in which you work fast enough to…

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