Sentience, Sentences, and Sentiment: Sensing Deep-Ocean Sediment through Artistic Practice

At this moment of climate crisis, deep-ocean carbon sequestration has been proposed as a strategy to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. The video article Sentience, Sentences, & Sentiment: Sensing Deep-Ocean Sediment through Artistic Practice explores ecological attunement and the role language in perceiving more-than-human—specifically ecosystems facing potential sequestration, ocean acidification, global heating, eutrophication. unfolds an artist’s account process for kór (core). An interdisciplinary artwork slow installation, (core) features sediment core extracted between Greenland Iceland at depth 1,682m during June 2021 science research cruise. In Icelandic, means choir or chorus; it is pronounced similarly English-language core. aboard vessel, acquisition core, conceptual documentation resulting (core), participant interviews, soundscape recordings, aria composed installation.kór performs installation point activation, where community members contribute to, think with, create context considering sentient being-ness sediment. On chalkboard, mark their reactions within presence water This shows multilingual sense-making (English, Polish, Danish, Spanish) sensorial materialities bodies (human, cetacean, water, etc.) contexts marine-terrestrial biospheres impacted by crisis. aims elucidate creative investigation into expanded notion relations—crucial collaborative survivorship our multi-entity worldings.