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This short story recounts the embodied practice of seaweed harvesting on Chiloé Island in southern Chile. These words do not detail the entire material flow of seaweed (luga) from ocean to beach to hand to middleman to factory to product but focus on one moment in this process - when the seaweed meets the hand. This moment is the subtle song that is sung by the body as it sways with the tide. This moment is the tide itself as it ebbs and flows, pushes and pulls. This moment is a guide for how much longer one needs to stay in the cold water to fill the last sack of the day... It is within these ordinary moments that the complexity of our interdependence, our softness, and our relationship to place and the body are revealed.
THE SEAWEED KNOWS NO SONGS is part of an on-going project that visualizes the lived experience of fisher people that live and work with(in) a watery landscape. Original audio and ideo was collected during recent field work with permission of the individuals.
Brittany Giunchigliani is a landscape designer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research interests focus on embodiment of, and in, the landscape as a feminist approach to Landscape Architecture and design. She holds a Master in Landscape Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Norman T. Newton Prize for design expression, the Penny White Project Fund Award, the Unsung Hero Award, and the Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship to conduct research in southern Chile and northwestern Spain.