LMFM interviewed Emma Brezing 5th October 2016 in connection with the new project.
Please click on link and it will play.
Please click on link and it will play.
Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things), a short film directed by Liam McGrath and a book designed by Feena McCarthy, photographed by Davey Moor, with an essay by writer Peter O'Neill and a collaborative text by David Newton and myself is out now. The publication is available to buy at the Molesworth Gallery Dublin, the Library Project Temple Bar Dublin and Tourist Office Balbriggan. |
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New:
Interview with Baiba Sustere of My Good Planet.
Homepage: http://mygoodplanet.com/
Direct link: http://mygoodplanet.com/thomas-brezing-interview/
Next showing of the film 'Out Too Far' is at Skerries Soundwaves Festival, Skerries Mills 12th - 24th Sept 2017
and at Fingal Arts Boathouse Studio Launch, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Saturday 7th October 2017
'Memory Has a Pulse', with Gary Robinson, Sean Cotter and Thomas Brezing is touring to Engage, Longford town, 22nd - 31st Sept 2017
Next showing of Out Too Far installation and film at: 'Stretch', An Tain Arts Centre, Basement Gallery, Dundalk,
as part of the Creative Spark Residency Programme (Supported by Create Louth)
From 11th October - 4th November 2017
Interview with Baiba Sustere of My Good Planet.
Homepage: http://mygoodplanet.com/
Direct link: http://mygoodplanet.com/thomas-brezing-interview/
Next showing of the film 'Out Too Far' is at Skerries Soundwaves Festival, Skerries Mills 12th - 24th Sept 2017
and at Fingal Arts Boathouse Studio Launch, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Saturday 7th October 2017
'Memory Has a Pulse', with Gary Robinson, Sean Cotter and Thomas Brezing is touring to Engage, Longford town, 22nd - 31st Sept 2017
Next showing of Out Too Far installation and film at: 'Stretch', An Tain Arts Centre, Basement Gallery, Dundalk,
as part of the Creative Spark Residency Programme (Supported by Create Louth)
From 11th October - 4th November 2017
Film still, Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things)
Carpet Man Performance/Walk 29th July, from Artists-Run-Gallery 126 to NUI Galway, during Galway Arts Festival
(17 - 30 July 2017).
Photo by Sean Cotter
(17 - 30 July 2017).
Photo by Sean Cotter
May 1st 2017, filming of Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things) at Loughshinny Beach, Fingal, Co. Dublin.
Photo by Lucy Brezing
Photo by Lucy Brezing
POLLUTION
Marine pollution, is the spreading of harmful substances such as oil, plastic, industrial and agricultural waste and chemicals in to the ocean.
On average humans use over 300 million tonnes of new plastic every year and only half is used once. A huge amount of plastic waste finds its way into the ocean annually. Over years the plastic breaks into tiny pieces, so much now that in some places plastic particles outnumber plankton.
Marine species suffer directly from plastic pollution, 90% of sea birds have plastic in their stomachs. Plastic attracts toxic chemicals released from industry and agriculture and so the concentration of toxins increases as it moves up the food chain. Entry of plastic toxins into the human food chain is a concern and have been suggested to contribute to some cancers, infertility and behavioral disorders. Recently microplastics have come to the forefront of concern, small particles and fragments, typically less than 5mm in size, are split into Primary and Secondary classes. Primary microplastics are small pellets produced as base material for plastic production and added to cosmetic products and industrial cleaning machines. Secondary microplastics arise from the breakdown of larger plastic waste (carrier bags, fishing equipment or ‘ghost gear’, food packaging, fibres from clothes) and accumulate into huge zones entangling sea creatures. Fish ingest the waste mistaking them for prey and filter feeders ingest them alongside food particles.
Oil (liquid petroleum hydrocarbon) enters the ocean from oil spills, routine shipping, run offs and dumping. About 12% of oil in the ocean is directly from oil spills. Oil directly affects the water repellency of bird feathers and destroys the insulating ability of fur-bearing animals exposing them to the harsh elements of the environment and the creatures often die from hypothermia. Another example of marine pollution is run off from agricultural waste and products. Pesticides are toxic to water systems however fertilizers are not directly toxic but their presence in water alters the nutrient and species composition of an ecosystem. Eutrophication is a rapid growth of algae from an excess of nutrients, this depletes the dissolved oxygen concentration and in turn fish and aquatic life die from hypoxia.
Source: http://www.underwatersculpture.com/environment/environment-threats/
Drone hovering on film day, Loughshinny Beach, May 2017. Photo by Lucy Brezing
