SURVIVAL: LINES OF FLIGHT
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SURVIVAL
lines of flight 

A PROJECT FOR THE LONDON WETLAND CENTRE
COMMISSIONED BY UNRAVELLED AS PART OF WETLANDS UNRAVELLED

survival: lines of flight

a project by Gavin Osborn

~~ NOW LIVE AT THE LONDON WETLAND CENTRE! ~~
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about the work

"Climate change is not a story. [...] It is life. We are inside the climate. Everything else happens inside the climate, including our psychological state." Naomi Klein, 2019 

The climate crisis has brought into focus a human tendency to think of ourselves as somehow separate to or outside something called 'Nature', ignoring that we - & even our most technological activities - exist within, affect & are affected by natural environmental systems.

Exploring the London Wetland Centre in relation to this, I'm fascinated by how LWC is a model for a particular relationship: in urban surrounds, under Heathrow flightpaths, obsolete city infrastructure is repurposed as a wetland, a space for 'wild' things that necessarily requires our constant interaction & stewardship.

Layered through this is the disruption the climate crisis may bring to the habitat: potential physical alterations, changes in biodiversity & resource availability, altered bird migration patterns - & how these elements not only have analogues in human circumstances & behaviour, but are deeply interconnected with it.

I'll be making a series of soundworks for visitors, using on-site recordings & interviews, specially created texts, & sound sourced from more distant places linked to LWC. Listeners can immerse themselves in the audio whilst in the wetlands, experiencing LWC's wider connection to broader issues & geographies. I'll also be creating visual work, & combining all these elements into performances at LWC.
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