This bioacoustics and chromatogram making workshop, facilitated by Sophia Dacy-Cole and Sammy Hawker, was held in the Plumwood Mountain garden on the 13th October, 2024. It explored listening as a form of activism, the sentience of the unseen, and disintegration as metamorphosis where boundaries of the human and more-than human dissolve. During the workshop, participants walked through the forest, listened to a live amplification of the garden through contact microphones / hydrophones, and then co-created an artwork with a sample of soil.

Field Report

Read Sophia Darcy-Cole and Sammy Hawker’s article Nature’s Active Voice // A Field Report from Plumwood Mountain online via Loom Magazine: https://www.loomlitmag.com/read/natures-active-voice-a-field-report-from-plumwood-mountain

Recommended Reading

Read Plumwood’s work on active listening via the following articles: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/val-plumwoods-philosophical-animism-attentive-interactions-sentient-world & https://valplumwood.files.word... 

Chromatogram of Plumwood Grove, 2024