Projects

By playfully traversing traditional boundaries with a range of collaborators and co-creators, we will feature poetry, stories, essays, film, audio and mixed media art. Join us as we explore diverse thoughts, mediums and voices.

Essay

MaraTime: The Future of Time

In the final instalment of the Time and Tide series, Tasneem Khan flies over our “Pale Blue Dot”, marvelling at how the ocean connects all the lands that humans divide. She writes in hope of a Symbiocene, a multispecies and multi-timescale future, and shares a few small steps that we can take towards creating one.

Film

Routes

In this short film, naturalist and author Yuvan Aves takes us on a journey along the paths of honeybees, butterflies, aphids and other insects as they remember and retrace routes that go far beyond human notions of roads and boundaries. This film was created by Gaurav Ogale and Annette Jacob.

Essay

MaraTime: Time as Reflection & Refraction

In the seventh installment of our Time and Tide series, Tasneem Khan invites us to consider how experience and knowledge are reflected, recorded, and consumed through time; in a tidal rhythm, certainty ebbs and layers of context and connection reveal themselves.

Essay

MaraTime: Time as Practice

In the sixth essay of the Time and Tide series, Tasneem Khan writes of knowledge embodied in communities and coastlines, of the intimacy of repetition, attention that attunes, and practice that makes dreams real and expands horizons.

Short Story

The World Will End in Slow Motion

In Kuzhali Manickavel’s imagining of the apocalypse giants fall from the sky, monsters emerge from the depths, and humans start scrapbooking the end times. This short story explores what happens when the world ends in slow motion, with a whimper rather than a bang, forewarned, heralded and entirely expected.

Essay

MaraTime: Time as Decay & Renewal

In the fifth installment of the ‘Time and Tide’ series, Tasneem Khan invites us to look through the veil that separates birth and death, beginnings and ends, into the liminal and rich ‘thin places’ and ecotones.

Short Story

Antarctica

What comes after the end? In this short story by Michael Allen Rose, it is a frozen, lifeless, Sisyphean eternity, where two survivors are trapped in a vicious cycle of too little and just enough.