An exhibition of transoceanic, international collaborations by multimedia artists Angela Bartram and Lee Deigaard and writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong, exploring multiplicities of mind and being, multispecies empathy, and considerate coexistences. 

From Deigaard’s studio on the US Gulf Coast, through the Gulf Stream in the midst of which is Wong’s Bermuda home, flowing northeast on the Atlantic Ocean’s warm internal river to Bartram’s Nottingham, UK, and all the way back again in meshing currents: communications intersect and echo other awarenesses, knowledges, sensoria. Humans have the technology to amplify our calls across vast distances; farther even than the elephants, who rumble subsonically to summon and sense the other from many miles away. From human to human, human to animal, through channels apart from sound, proximal presence, or touch: gulf as rift doubles back on itself to gulf’s alternate meaning as an oceanographic convergence. The collaborators share an oxygen, a sense of hope and enmeshment through communication much like any animal calling to another from far branches and being answered in kind.

This exhibition explores iterative and connective processes of twinning and doubling; of companionate mirroring, transcription, and translation; of connecting and echoing within the greater emptying, weaving new enmeshments with animality and parity against the vanishing—all in hope of holding open the space of memory, the gulfs which are so necessary to love at any remove, even beyond death, in service.