Bryony Dunne

Exploration is about traveling and bringing back observations to the people who stayed at home. It is also about charting the world to gain wealth and control. Somewhere on the crosslines of domination and migration, filmmaker and visual artist Bryony Dunne zooms in on the relationships between humans and their fellow creatures. At EKWC she made a series of work based on the mediaeval book Topographia Hiberniae. In this account of a journey to Ireland, the author Gerald of Wales described how barnacle geese were born from goose barnacles. The myth explained the eggless reproduction of the migratory birds, that hatch in Canada – a country unknown to Europeans at the time. Dunne amalgamates the myth with the story of a US space X rocket that exploded over the Atlantic in 2015. A 32-foot-long part of debris washed up at the English coast, covered in barnacles that drifted with the same ocean current.