2016/17/18
Lynchpin is pleased to support this exciting and important conference.
Overcoming Barriers to Climate Justice
A multidisciplinary conference examining the barriers to responding to climate change, implementing climate justice, and proposing ways forward.
Hobart, Tasmania 8-10 February 2018
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Organising Committee
- Peter Lawrence (Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania)
- Jan Linehan (Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania)
- Marcus Düwell (Ethics Institute, University of Utrecht)
- Liesbeth Feikema (Ethics Institute, University of Utrecht)
- Michael Reder (Munich School of Philosophy)
- Lukas Köhler (Centre for Environmental Ethics and Education of the Munich School of Philosophy)
Theme 1: Climate justice (world views, justice & ethics)
Theme 2: Barriers to implementing climate justice
Theme 3: Strategies for making a different future a reality
Lynchpin is thrilled to support Aviva Hannah Reed’s book
EON the story of the fossils
EON is a hard- cover art/ science book illustrating evolution on the planet.
It explores how we got here.
From singular cell to biodiversity.
From extinction to survival.
It is connection to our ancestors and our place in the world.
Is it a blueprint for the future?
You can join us in supporting this project by contributing at POZIBLE
Lynchpin supports Home Ward Bound participants into 2018
Lynchpin is happy to introduce and to offer support to Karen Alexander and Justine Barrett, who are two of eighty women with a science background from around the globe who have been chosen to participate in the next Homeward Bound program. This 12 month program teaches leadership, strategy and communication skills and culminates in a three week trip to Antarctica. The ultimate goal of Homeward Bound project is to have 1,000 women from all over the world connected to inform policy and make the changes needed for a more sustainable planet.
Hear more from the Science Show RN.
Homeward Bound aims to boost women in science
It is a leadership program for women from all over the world. The next group comprises veterinarians, marine ecologists, engineers, researchers, academics, chemists, science communicators, doctors and more coming from 13 countries including Spain, Venezuela, Kenya, France, Italy, Norway, Scotland and China. Their mission is to increase female voices in science and decision making around the future of our world. The leadership program will be held on board a ship in the waters of Antarctica in February 2018.
Read more here: TASMANIAN SCIENTISTS GEARING UP FOR HOMEWARD BOUND VOYAGE OF A LIFETIME in 2018
Karen Alexander, Research Fellow, IMAS University of Tasmania
Doctor Karen Alexander is an interdisciplinary Research Fellow in the Centre for Marine Socioecology. She is a marine social scientist (and part-time ecosystem modeller) with wide-ranging interests, centring on marine governance. She specialises in issues around the transition to a green (blue) economy and more recently her research has focused on stakeholder engagement and social license for sectors such as offshore renewable energy and aquaculture.
Read more about Karen here.
Justine Barrett
Masters student, IMAS: has finished a small research project looking at public perceptions of Antarctic krill fishing and is about to embark on a project with CSIRO looking at microplastics in sediment from the Great Australian Bight. In 2018 Justine’s aim is to help to get Antarctic and marine science into schools. This will potentially be a collaborative project with the Department of Education, IMAS, CSIRO, AAD, Marine Discovery Centre, Woodbridge etc to develop resources and scientist interactions for schools to easily access.
Lynchpin will look forward to including updates from this Homeward Bound experience for Karen and Justine at the BLOG site.
2017 – Lynchpin news and celebration!
It could not be more special than to announce that sculptor, installation artist, poet and video artist, Jenny Pollak, will be coming to spend what we are calling a Lynchpin Residency in Hobart, for four to six weeks, from the end of February.
As Lynchpin Coordinator, Jenny’s work is of particular closeness to me; her marvellous installation work The Immortals shown at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, 4th September – 25th October 2015, was brought to my notice by Lisa Roberts of Living Data, with whom Lynchpin has had a fundamental relationship over the years, as we’ve explored ways of encouraging conversations and collaborations that bring Ocean science to the community in new ways. Lisa rightly thought that The Immortals would resonate with me, for in many ways the epic poem at the base of this work, echoed and affirmed the intent of the symphony ex Oceano, our 2012-15 project – recorded and released at just the time The Immortals was shown.
Since that introduction, Jenny and I have been in conversation – and I’m happy to say she will be here to explore, not only the pleasures of Tasmania, MONA etc . . . but also . . . we are not quite certain what else may emerge!
Please visit Jenny’s website and take time to understand something of the integrity and deep listening expressed in her work.
This will be Lynchpin’s 2017 conversation piece. We’ll keep you posted on what it may bring forth!
‘New World Order — Terra Australis’.
The art of Jenny Pollak: engaging the natural world: Published on Oct 30, 2013
Australian sculptor Jenny Pollak explains the intriguing process behind researching and creating her artwork ‘New World Order — Terra Australis’. This work considers the impact of rabbits on the Australian landscape and psyche and is now part of the National Museum of Australia’s collection. Recorded at the artist’s home studio in the Pittwater area of northern Sydney, 2013. More: http://www.nma.gov.au/pate
Produced by Jono Lineen, Assistant Curator, and Jeremy Lucas, Multimedia Producer, National Museum of Australia.
Change of Direction for: 2016
During 2015, Lynchpin was in discussion with Lauren Black, an acclaimed Hobart based artist who is well known for her detailed botanical work. View Lauren’s formal botanical work at www.botanicalfineart.com.
Early in the year Lauren let us know that new and exciting opportunities have opened for her that will expand her current work into several new areas. Due to these unexpected developments, she was now unavailable to explore what might have emerged from the science of the Ocean. We wished Lauren great success in these new ventures while Lynchpin turned to consider new directions for 2016-18.
Exciting news! – December 2016
A Churchill Fellowship for Lauren Black! Many congratulations to Lauren on this great opportunity! She will use her scholarship to visit collections in museums in Paris, Italy and the UK, where she will take particular note of medical and botanical collections. Lauren would like her work to build a bridge between art and science that opens our understandings of the body – work which began with her Memento Mori Exhibition in 2015.
May this Churchill Fellowship underpin and expand and consolidate new and inspiring work as Lauren has the opportunity to be immersed in some of the most special collections in Europe; the observations of anatomy and botany that were the basis of opening up the wonders of the human body and the botanical world to us over time.
Through the year – 2016 –
As the year has progressed, there have been some interesting activities on a number of fronts with various groups approaching Lynchpin .
ex Oceano
Throughout the year, we continued to pursue performance of the symphony ex Oceano. Peter Tanfield, Artistic Director of the Discovery Orchestra, was in discussion with Ten Days on the Island, 2017 – but sadly that has not brought forth performance.
Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA)
AMSA are anxious to promote and communicate their science in different ways. A present initiative is to hold a series of small workshops where interested scientists can explore expressing their science through various arts practices. Lynchpin is interested in contributing to this initiative which is in a development phase.
GEOLOCATION JOURNEYS
This delightful and productive initiative is a program Lynchpin is pleased to support. Congratulations Annalise Rees and Jamie Cleeland – and those working in predator research!
the Tidal Festival (Devonport), January 2017
We were happy that the Festival invited Nick Roden, one of the scientists from the symphony ex Oceano collaboration to take part in the Festival forum that hopes to explore arts/science collaborations. Nick will be overseas at the time, but Annalise Rees will say something about the science response of Nick and Rob Johnson during the forum and we are happy to gift CDs of ex Oceano to forum participants.
Read more about the Festival and put it in your diary!
Tidal Festival is Devonport’s youngest cultural festival that takes place at various venues every two years, coinciding with our Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award exhibition. The festival includes a range of arts programs, workshops and activities for the community and visitors to be involved in. This includes a resident artist located at Mersey Bluff (in what we call the Tidal Zone) to create ephemeral works (past artists include Ross Byers & Marcus Tatton), various workshops and events (inc. cultural walk around the headland by local Aboriginal people, drawing/painting/sculpture workshops, outdoor cinema, etc.) and a public forum that highlights artists who reference or relate their work to the environment (Tasmanian artist and Tidal finalist Melissa Smith spoke at the last Tidal Festival forum).The theme of the festival is ‘tidal’, and the forum highlights the work undertaken by artists, in particular those who cross the boundaries into science.
Tasmanian ECO Film Festival