More Than Sense is an ongoing artistic research project that explores the sensory impacts of human activity on nocturnal species.
More than Sense throws into sharp contrast the differences between our urban nocturnal habitats and the sublime depth of a remote darkness, deep and still. Both are our zones of interest, that highlight the challenges of human activity, unending and invasive, day and night.
Through fieldwork, making, visual and ecological research, we explore under designated and remote dark skies as well as the last remaining sites for urban sanctuary for nocturnal species in towns and cities. Thinking temporally, as artists with shared dreams of conserving our co-habitation, co-existence and co-evolution that is entangled with the life-worlds of other species.
More than Sense is an unfolding nocturne, drawn in by the temporal zone that bleeds across the senses and between the edges of sleep and reason. Between the dreams of humans, birds and those that come alive whilst others rest.
Art that summons solutions for an ongoing ecological transformation requires greater cultural awareness of human derived pollution, to understand the complex fragility of shared ecological habitats so that we can make more than sense of the need for co-evolutionary politics (ecological / social) that address futures for all living species.
We thank those who have invited us to speak, make and work with them; zone2source(NL) Mondrian Foundation(NL) Nieuw en Meer(NL) CREAM(UK) Srishti Insitute of Art and Design, Bengaluru(IN), Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kerala(IN), University of Reading(UK), Exeter Visual Ecology(UK) Natural History Museum(UK), Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew(UK) University of Westminster (UK), World Biodiversity Forum, Davos (CH).