Both the sound and the sea are characterized by a constant fluidity and transformation, which has been considered as a creative foundation for expanded sonic practices that identify, capture and experiment with natural elements. The text aims to explore how the idea of sonification as a process of translating qualities and data into sound constitutes the departure point towards contemporary sound practices that encourage deeper listening and immersive experiences. Taking the sea-responsive sound installations of French artist Félix Blume, Rumors from (...) the Sea and Suspiros as a foundation, the article presents a reflective conversation between Félix Blume and Bill Psarras on aspects of such artworks that highlight ideas of sea and limens, listening experience, sound ecology and sonic instruments through performative, inventive and participatory lenses. (shrink)

To think of the sea as a page is to consider its liquid surface as a site of writing. The current article explores fluid and performative aspects of the sea in contemporary art practices, which incorporate performance art, poetry and creative media. Based on a critical reflection on coastline and sea-oriented performances of the author and drawing on key ideas that consider the sea as a dynamic milieu of embodied knowledge and expanded creativity beyond western terrestrial bias, the article explores (...) the author’s reconsideration of geopoetics through mediated, performative and fluid practices towards watery poetics in blue humanities. It reflects on the ways parallel processes of writing, floating, drifting and transmitting shift the meaning and articulation of a poem from the page to the sea towards an expanded poetic situation with coordinates. (shrink)

The issue delves into and extends across the sea by exploring critical art practices and methodologies at the intersections of performance art, new media and site-specific/installation art, that integrate ocean, waves, currents, tides, coasts, depths, sea objects/vessels or environmental conditions as vital agents of the artwork. It presents nine articles by artists and scholars whose art practice and research engages with performative, embodied, participatory and technological aspects of the sea by integrating processes of drifting, floating, standing, recording, transmitting and mapping, (...) which sink into and move across the sea but also take place in-between the permeable boundaries of coasts. (shrink)