The Earth Keeps Dreaming Us

Edinburgh, Scotland

2026

A mobile rope and papermaking craft which transforms "ghost gear" (abandoned rope from the commercial fishing industry). This relational object initiated a series of "splicing actions" with local actors which formed the scene of untwisting, inventorying and splicing together strands of rope collected from the shoreline of Portland, Maine. Playing with the double meaning of "splicing" as the act of mending and strengthening of rope and "splicing" as the molecular act of modifying genes, this action brought into question the complex of interdependencies at play between producers, consumers and policymakers related to fishing, kelp farming and the coastal commons.

Made in the context of the Liveable Worlds exhibition at Maine College of Art & Design, "Life Lines turns our attention to practices of repair, strategies of adaptation, and world-building,"
-Co-curator, Sabine Malcom

Acts of giving and receiving, dropping threads and finding something that works, something consequential and maybe even beautiful, that wasn't there before, of relaying connections that matter, of telling stories in hand upon hand, and crafting conditions for life.
- A Variation on Donna Haraway's SF- String Figures

Every site is haunted by countless ghosts that lurk there in silence to be evoked or not. - Michel de Certeau

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