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More than 90% of the living beings on the planet live in the depths of the oceans. Their waters are inhabited by microscopic beings or immense cetaceans, strange and intelligent creatures forming a submerged population of immense diversity. Also resting on the sea bed, however, are countless remains of shipwrecks, vestiges of failed journeys, and phantoms of colonialism: human culture submerged in time.

Coordinated by the Institute for Postnatural Studies, this symposium will broaden the imagery created by the artist Wu Tsang through her exhibition Of Whales. Focusing on the ocean as a place of opportunity from which to tell hidden stories, marginal narratives and tales of coexistence, the submerged worlds of the marine depths will be explored to vindicate the fluid, the states in which bodies, identities, histories and ideas cannot be discussed in static or binary terms. Through international voices of science, art and ecology, the subjects addressed will include acoustic ecology, flows and migrations, the slave trade and the deterioration of biodiversity, and questions will be raised to think the oceans from a contemporary perspective, weaving new narratives that will entwine biology and history, matter and myth.

All activities are free.