Marine Caves and Benthic Terrazzo investigates the practical and perceptual problems concerning marine ecosystem preservation with a focus on marine caves and plastic waste. The project artistically explores the present and future links between the isolated cave ecosystems and the terrestrial human home. Markos Digenis and fellow HCMR scientists performed a holistic study of marine caves in Crete including documenting micro and macro plastic pollution. Hypercomf used photoquadrats of these marine cave walls to inspire a series of floor tile prototypes, Benthic Terrazzo. They are produced using the traditional Venetian terrazzo flooring technique modified to incorporate macro and micro plastics, ropes and so on, collected on the Tinos coastline and all over Greece through the Blue Cycle network. Fish Kissed looks at the often distant but intimate relationship between the human home and the sea, all occurring over a kitchen sink, featuring a traditional island song by the Domna Samiou Choir.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
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Produced within the framework of the STUDIOTOPIA program, organized by Onassis Cultural Foundation and co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union, with production support by the Blue Cycle lab.
Funded through the STUDIOTOPIA project. STUDIOTOPIA is co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
