Art, activism & cuttlefish mating with Lichen Kelp

You’ll like this episode if you’re interested in artists working with seaweed or teaming up with scientists, what cuttlefish look like when they mate, kayaks that play music, or if you’ve ever wondered whether humans will one day be able to carry sharks in their wombs🦈🤰🏻

Lichen Kelp is an artist, performer and curator based in Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country, in Naarm AKA Melbourne. Through her work she explores melting, subliming, fruiting, flowering, decomposing, bubbling and shapeshifting and she builds communities around marine algae and other ecologies. She also runs the Seaweed Appreciation Society International.

You can find Lichen on socials and read more about her projects on her website or at Seaweed Appreciation Society International (@seaweed_appreciation_society). You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Giant Australian cuttlefish breeding 

Dylan Martorell

Kayak Orchestra recording courtesy of Dylan & Jannah Quill 

Luna Mrozik Gawler - CARRYKIN - an interspecies surrogacy program

Fossils of earliest organisms that had sex are a billion years old

Why does the sea smell like the sea?

A list of ocean-based fears

Lipstick kiss of death

Seaweed: A Global History by Kaori O'Conner

The Portable Seaweed Library

Where is the Australian climate movement’s solidarity with Palestine?

This episode was recorded and made on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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