Jana Winderen's Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone in Toronto

An adaptation of Jana Winderen's Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone, which was commissioned by Sonic Acts, will be exhibited at The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea from 14 to 23 September. The 10-day festival presented by the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, opens perspectives on climate change, environmental crisis, and resilience. The marginal ice zone is the dynamic border between the open sea and the sea ice, which is extremely ecologically vulnerable. The phytoplankton present in the sea produces half of the oxygen on the planet. During spring, this zone is the most important CO2 sink in our biosphere. In Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone, the sounds of living creatures become a voice in the current political debate concerning the official location of the ice edge (or floe edge—the space where the open sea and frozen sea meet). The listener experiences the bloom of plankton, the shifting and crackling sea ice in the Barents Sea around Spitsbergen (towards the North Pole), and the underwater sounds made by bearded seals, migrating species such as humpbacks and orcas, crustaceans and spawning cod —all actions that depend on the spring bloom. Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone premiered at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ during Sonic Acts Festival 2017 - The Noise of Being.

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