Addressing one of the urgent issues of climate crisis and environmental pollution, this book explores our relationship to the sea: how we live alongside it, our bodily relationship to it, its role in the creation of a connected, global society and, perhaps most critically, the threat we pose to it. <\/p>\n
Through a broad selection of works by contemporary international artists, Can the Seas Survive Us?<\/em><\/strong> responds to the urgent need to resuscitate our seas. While the oceanic environment is essential to all life, its vulnerability to human action is highlighted by an ever-increasing loss of biodiversity. This book prompts the reader to imagine a future in which collective human behaviour can mitigate the effects of climate change. As ocean temperatures reach record highs, it is clear that time is not on our side. This ambitious project aspires to accelerate climate awareness and deliver the critical climate action we urgently need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Publication accompanies the exhibition season at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 15 March – 21 September 2025. Addressing one of the urgent issues of climate crisis, this book aims to raise awareness by exploring through art the challenges of humanity’s relationship to the sea.
FOREWORD
\nJago Cooper 6
\nINTRODUCTION
\nJohn Kenneth Paranada 9
\nFLUID LINES: CHARTING CHANGE
\nAND CHANGING CHARTS
\nDjoeke van Netten 25
\nSOUNDING THE UNKNOWN:
\nWATERS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
\nSoren Brothers 33
\nREDRAWING THE LINE
\nAndrew Watkinson 43
\n‘THE LEAVING OF KATTEGAT SEA
\n(OR THE MERMEN’S LAMENT)’
\nHarun Morrison 53
\n‘THE IMAGE OF ETERNITY’:
\nDEEP TIME, POWER
\nAND VULNERABILITY
\nIN REPRESENTATIONS OF
\nSEAS AND OCEANS
\nCourtney Traub 56
\nTIPPING POINTS: PAUSING THE
\nUNSTOPPABLE IN THE WORK OF
\nMAGGI HAMBLING, CLAIRE CANSICK
\nAND MARGARET MELLIS
\nAntonia Blocker 68
\n‘SELKIE SONG’
\nHarun Morrison 77
\nA SEA OF RESILIENCE:
\nOCEANIC (IN)VISIBILITY
\nKaren Jacobs 80
\nTHE EVOLUTION OF
\nPARADISE CAMP
\nYuki Kihara in conversation with
\nTania Moore 95
\nESTUARINE
\nPatrick Flores 105
\nSEA INSIDE: ART AND
\nMARINE INTERIORITY
\nPandora Syperek and Sarah Wade 116
\n‘THE GHOST WHALES’
\nHarun Morrison 132
\nAcknowledgements 137
\nAuthor Biographies 141
\nPicture Credits 147
\nNotes 148
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