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Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image
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Bleach, L, Regarding the Earth: Ecological Vision in Word and Image, 4th ASLEC- ‐ANZ Biennial Conference, 31 AUGUST to 2 SEPTEMBER, 2012 (2012) [Non Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
The wild rock pigeons’ cohabitation with humans 10 000 years ago triggered a
unique and mutually beneficial association, allowing safe shelter for bird and unprecedented
carrier utility for human. The enduring relationship between bird and human has evolved in response to the pigeon’s homing instinct, evidencing an empathetic bond driven by an urge to continually re‐establish contact.
Homing is an innate instinct to return to known territory via new and unknown environments. The
contemporary bird/fancier relationship reveals layers of belonging, between animal, human and
place. It more abstractly reflects a desire to be local; to belong within an emotional and spatial
system, confronting and navigating tenuous places and experiences.
Pigeon fanciers typically inhabit suburban environments, establishing the birds’ lofts amongst the
conglomerate nest of human habitation (sheds, carports, BBQ areas, clotheslines). From this
domestic grotto, fanciers travel impressive distances to reach wilder places, releasing their birds
to find their way back home. The bird’s instinct of site fidelity sits counter to the fancier’s
instinct to reconnect to wild environs. It is a symbiotic relationship drawn from divergent urges.
This paper will present a series of multi-‐disciplinary artworks developed from collaborations
with local Tasmanian pigeon fanciers and homing associations. The artworks explore the desire to
locate habitat in unstable environments, exposing bespoke ecosystems and visualizing agency within
a locational/relational feedback loop.
Item Details
Item Type: | Non Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | Site Fidelity, ASLEC Conference: REGARDING THE EARTH: ECOLOGICAL VISION IN WORD AND IMAGE |
Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
Research Group: | Art history, theory and criticism |
Research Field: | Visual cultures |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Arts |
Objective Field: | The creative arts |
UTAS Author: | Bleach, L (Ms Lucy Bleach) |
ID Code: | 82487 |
Year Published: | 2012 |
Deposited By: | Art (Hobart) |
Deposited On: | 2013-02-05 |
Last Modified: | 2014-03-24 |
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