THE CLIPPERTON PROJECT - A new Way of Thinking

Hi all volunteers, supporters, sailors and general Leeuwin lovers...

Here is a little info about a local event happening this Thursday and Friday that might be of interest to you:

This Thursday and Friday the Fremantle Arts Centre is hosting a talk, film screening and workshop led by Jonathan Bonfiglio – a fascinating chap who heads up the Clipperton Project. The Clipperton Project is all about putting together people from seemingly completely different backgrounds – artists and scientists for instance –  for sailing expeditions to isolated, environmentally fragile places and encouraging them to share and swap skills and ideas to solve problems.

The first expedition was to the Clipperton Islands in the pacific and – to give you a hypothetical example – if a marine biologist left the ship to do some research on litter or pollution levels he or she would bring an artist along. The experience would then inform the artists work and the two could then swap notes and see what they could learn from each other or to tackle a specific problem or best communicate the extent of a problem to the outside world. 

This talk will feature speakers and participants from various disciplines, discussing and presenting ideas and ways that professionals of all genres can rethink their work in a context broader than a given industry might usually allow. They believe and argue that we are all stakeholders in every debate, and that the key attribute to skill-making is not knowledge but willingness to risk and to step over the horizon, into other territories, other spaces, professions and new ways of free thinking - leaving aside ego, prejudice, localism.

For more information check out this link: 

http://fac.org.au/events/317/artspoken-the-clipperton-project-workshop?pid=130