But equally important for us has been the discovery, initially by Kate Pocklington (currently Curator at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum) of what has become a feral diversity of sources all claiming in different ways that this very crocodile (currently in the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum) is believed to host the spirit of Panglima (Warrior) Ah Chong, 19th century gangster, Taoist mystic, and anti-colonial freedom fighter. Our proposal consisted of regarding this 133-year-dead, saltwater crocodile as a comparative seed bank to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. For this iteration of the work, Migrant Ecologies Project artist Zachary Chan was flown (all carbon costs were offset) to Svalbard with this very special grain of wheat and a series of other artistic offerings from the Migrant Ecologies Project for a ceremony, in which the works were offered to the mountain and placed to rest in Gruve/Mine 3, next to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank. It is just one part of an ongoing research initiative that started in 2013 and was first exhibited during a project called Unearthed at the Singapore Art Museum. The Migrant Ecologies Project proposal was called 'Seeding Stories: A Guide to the Interior of a Salt Water Crocodile'. This is a link to Fern Wickson's Seed Cultures website which includes galleries dedicated to the other finalists and also a documentary film on the project Zachary Chan, Migrant Ecologies Project designer has also created a micro-site dedicated to letters we commissioned to this one grain of wheat: Seeding Stories In Svalbard an exhibition and public talk preceded the works being ceremonially placed adjacent to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank.Ī gallery of the Svalbard intervention and works are can be found in the Natural Histories research section of this website. Wickson believes that nature and human cultures are intertwined and wanted to generate a parallel initiative to remember 21st century cultural relationships with plants and seeds, next door to the world famous ‘Doomsday Vault’. (Shortcut: GoFundMe / website / Vipps at 4151 4638) Icepeople is again facing an immediate existential crisis due (of course) to hardships largely inflected by the pandemic. Fern Wickson from the Centre for Biosafety at University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway. There have been some moments of true desperation during our 13-year history. The work was selected by an international jury of artists and scientists from 100 entries from all over the world for an exhibition called Agri/Cultures.Seed-Links, curated and led by Dr. ![]() This gesture was part of an artwork by the Singapore-situated Migrant Ecologies Project. On 10 June 2019, a single grain of wheat from the interior of a 133-year-dead, 4.7 metres long, saltwater crocodile shot in 1887 at the mouth of the no-longer-existing Serangoon River in Singapore and kept for over a century in the Raffles Museum, migrated to the Arctic circle and was ceremonially buried in Platåberget, adjacent to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. Platåberget Mountain, Svalbard Archipelago June 2019 Migrant Ecologies Project Tier 1 Finalists in 'Agri/Cultures.Seed-Links Competition'.
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