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Leviathan is a ten-part film cycle, VR trilogy & more exploring #climatechange #migration & #mentalhealth by artist Shezad Dawood.

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#TheTerrarium is the latest Virtual Reality work to spin out of @shezaddawood continuous research into the intersection of oceanic ecologies, climate change, migration and mental health that forms the framework for @leviathancycle . In this iteration, we are transported to a…

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#LeviathanNews - Have you heard about #plasticrafting ? It poses a huge and mostly unknown danger: following #Japan’s 2011 #tsunami, an estimated 5m tons of debris was swept out to sea. Nearly 300 non-native #species caught a lift across the ocean all the way to the shores o…

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Following its presentation @kaicenter #Tallinn, The Terrarium - a #VR work by @shezaddawood produced by @ubik.productions that imagines a connected Kent-Baltic coastline 300 years into the future - will have its UK premiere next month as part of @fstonetriennial commissioned…

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#LeviathanRecommends: Consistent and incisive reporting on the oceans is still surprisingly scarce, which is why we’re hooked on @ian_urbina ’s #outlawoceanproject chronicling the shocking news that no one sees on the #highseas, with crimes that range from the killing of sto…

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Exciting to see @shezaddawood #towardsthepossiblefilm on view in the iconic @guggenheim rotunda. The film is a study in parallel universes and the sparks that fly when worlds collide. Shot in #sidiifni in #morocco, the film became a prequel of sorts to @leviathancycle 👩‍🚀 👽 …

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#LeviathanNews - A massive #crater was discovered in the remote Yamal and Gyda peninsulas in the Russian #Arctic - the 17th since the first was spotted in 2013. These giant holes forming in #Siberian #permafrost are likely linked to Arctic warming, scientists discover.

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#LeviathanRecommends 🐳 : we are loving this piece by #ecologist and #author @csafina on #HermanMelville ‘s whale as a warning we failed to heed. Safina writes, “Nearly two centuries ago, #Melville showed us how easy it is to welcome as our own the touches of others, their eq…

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Happy New Year! 🐙 Start the year with an action for our oceans 🌊 by signing a @greenpeaceuk petition to ban #supertrawlers and destructive #fishing from the UK’s Marine Protected Areas. According to the Marine Conservation Society, fishing boats are ‘bottom trawling’ – dragg…

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🎥 👀 Watch @leviathancycle Episode 6 online until 30 November via @theheartforheartprogram YouTube channel 👀🎥 #Repost @theheartforheartprogram with @make_repost
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Shezad Dawood, Leviathan Cycle Episode 6 : Ding Ling & Senait WORLD PREMIERE

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Arturo, the third episode of @leviathancycle was nominated by @skinderhundal for #PeertoPeer : UK/HK, a digital programme and platform encouraging exchange between the UK and #HongKong visual art sectors. Watch Arturo until November 14 as part of their online festival via th…

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Life imitates art, as masked audiences watch masked city dwellers in “Ding Ling & Senait”, the latest @leviathancycle instalment @manifestabiennial @infinitevillagem13 in #Nice. Set in the “age of pandemics” and written by @shezaddawood two years ago, the narrative for Episo…

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@shezaddawood in conversation with @kinoderkunst Director Heinz Peter Schwerfel on transdisciplinary filmmaking, holistic methodologies, painting and film as editing in space, visceral cuts, science, fiction and narrative in @leviathancycle - now available to listen via #lin…

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@leviathancycle Episode 4: Jamila has been selected for @kinoderkunst International Competition. In the fourth instalment of @leviathancycle Ben and Yasmine continue their journey south to the Moroccan coast, where they are attacked by Jamila and her group of parasitic bandi…

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We are so happy that @ubik.productions has received funding from @aceagrams essential #CultureRecoveryFund 👏 - so much of the @leviathancycle project has been produced by #ubikproductions, and @leviathancycle film and VR works on the links between #climatechange #migration a…

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Over the weekend, #pianist and hobby #ornithologist Sten Lassmann led a #birdwatching tour in Paljassaare, as part of the public programme accompanying @shezaddawood ’s exhibition Leviathan: the Paljassaare Chapter at @kaicenter. Shezad met Sten during his site visit to Esto…

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We’re installing this week and one of the sculptures has arrived in Tallinn. Shezad Dawood’s new luminescent sculpture Hybrid I, 2020 is referencing to genetic modification explored by scientists as one possible solution to endangered…

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Thank you @landartcollective for the invitation to take over your instagram this week! My name is @shezaddawood, and I work across the disciplines of film, performance, painting, neon, sculpture, virtual reality and other digi…

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Something’s on the horizon...”Leviathan: the Paljassaare Chapter” opens next week on Friday 18 September @kaicenter featuring the world premiere of @shezaddawood “The Terrarium” (2020). This new @leviathancycle Virtual Reality work imagines a future 300 years from now, where…

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“Leviathan proposes an expanded notion of conflict, one that makes apparent the tentacular reach of humanity’s appetite for power. At the same time, it de-centres the human, by recasting it as merely one incidental component of a wildly tangled, networked existence.” @leviat…

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Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, and efforts to slow global warming will not stop it from disintegrating, according to a new study by researchers at @theohiostateuniversity .
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"The ice sheet is now in this new dynamic state, where even if we went ba…