Translations record unseen, deep water environments, using hydrophonic microphones and data-sets collected from the Marine Institute in Galway. The research is inspired by hydro-feminist strategies that support deep speculation and imagining of our shared, non-human climate. Archiving non-visual evidence of micro changes in sea environments, Translations captures the slow, imperceptible destructiveness of the bio-sphere in the Anthropocene. Reflecting on this phenomenon, Rob Nixon points out how such slow violence ‘occurs gradually and out sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all’. Because slow violence is difficult to visualize, it is rendered through acoustic aesthetic translations.
