“Imagine plastic breaking down in the stomach of sea creatures, transforming into a plastic protein that is used as fuel to enhance or recreate the skeletal frame. How far are we from a time when sea creatures can design and shape their future selves with a material that is non-degradable, has increased fracture toughness, is light-weight, colourful and shiny?”
SuperNatural Plastic Eaters was a talk organised by Yvanna Greene involving marine scientists Karin Dubsky and Dr Heidi Acampora. The talk, chaired by Anne Mullee, examines plastic pollution in the marine environment, the ingestion of plastic by marine creatures and reveals evolutionary new marine species washed up on the coast of Ireland.
Performative art talk presented at:
‘An Urgent Enquiry’, invitation to talk by Dublin City Council, 2018.
The Science Gallery, Dublin. March 2018.
