Between Desert Seas(2021), 9-channel sound installation, acoustic panels, benches, salt, Dimensions variable.
Between desert seas (2021) is a multilayered sonic installation that renegotiates our relationship with the seas surrounding the Arabian Peninsula. An immersive sonic experience of different elements gathered and made through the research process. Between factual and fictional, these elements have been weaved together to create a tapestry of stories highlighting the Arabian Sea Humpback whale. A nonmigratory unique population of their kind that has been isolated for about seventy thousand years. In their solitude, they developed their own language, their own song, their own culture. Between historical whaling and recent environmental disturbance made by human, less than one hundred of them survived today.
Contributors
Environment Society of Oman, Suaad Al Harthi, Olivia Dalziel, Andy Wilson, Robert Baldwin, Gianna Minton, Darryl MacDonald, Tim Collins, Aida Al Jaberi, Elayne Looker, Sal Cerchio, Ernie Indradat, Wided Khadraoui, Maia Willson, Nour Alrefaie, Bridget St. John.