Rights of the Deep with Emma Critchley
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00:00 --> 00:01 My name is Emma Critchley and
00:01 --> 00:06 I'm one of 14 people that have co-written this text Rights of the Deep,
00:06 --> 00:10 which is raising awareness, about the need to protect the deep ocean
00:10 --> 00:13 in light of deep sea mining, which may well start next year.
00:14 --> 00:18 The document is co-written by academics, ocean law experts,
00:18 --> 00:21 scientists, and indigenous Pacific people.
00:21 --> 00:24 In the exhibition, you can see phrases from the text
00:24 --> 00:29 that we've written together mapped against a map of ocean currents.
00:29 --> 00:32 And then you've got also the full text that you can read here.
00:32 --> 00:37 It's also a contribution to the rights of nature movement that is a new,
00:37 --> 00:40 evolving movement that gives nature a voice in the eyes of the law.
00:40 --> 00:45 And the hope, particularly working with the indigenous knowledge, is that
00:45 --> 00:50 people will rethink their relationship with the ocean and with nature in general.
00:50 --> 00:52 There's a big paradigm shift that needs to happen
00:52 --> 00:56 where we really need to think about our relationship with nature
00:56 --> 00:59 in a different way, rather than thinking about this hierarchical relationship.
00:59 --> 01:01 So this work is at Science Gallery London.
01:01 --> 01:05 And you can see it in exhibition here until May 2025.
How can we connect with the remote depths of our seas and oceans to ensure they’re protected?
Meet Emma Critchley, lead artist for Rights of the Deep, a new installation within Vital Signs that visualises a co-written open letter by indigenous Pacific activists, marine scientists and legal scholars. The letter explores the need to protect our oceans from deep sea mining through the Rights of Nature, a legal movement which prioritises the intrinsic rights of nature in the eyes of law.
You can see Rights of the Deep in Vital Signs: another world is possible at Science Gallery London until 17 May 2025.