¡vamos, simbiosis! - Reconnecting humans to the sea through the arts and sciences

The sisters Annika and Stephanie Guse initiated the arts & science project ¡vamos, simbiosis! at a climate hotspot at the Mediterranean Sea. As a biologist and an artist they want to find out what the merge of arts and science can do to support ocean health in times of climate change. Together with 50 scientists, artists, students, local stakeholders they joined an on-site experiment in Spain. Within a specially designed Symbiosis Studio and through artistic methods they created a collective brain, experiencing and reflecting the relation of humans to the sea on multiple levels. Together the group created artworks and research to raise ocean literacy, public awareness, and transform marine science.
The film gives insights in how arts and sciences can complement each other - comparable to a research practise before the 20th century when arts and sciences were inextricably linked. It illustrates how to immerse into a community and create a place and spirit to practise science and arts together.

(The outcomes of the project are documented in a follow-up film (2023) about the exhibition at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich in which students and teachers reflect on the need for tangible science in the Anthropocene. Results and the special artistic methods of this project are also presented within papers and conferences, such as Konferenz der Zukünfte, Berlin (2023) and Overcoming Obstacles to Climate Change Mitigation, UCL, Belgium (2024).)