ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I move from the terra infirma of the swamp to the expansive ocean, singular. The featured artists form oceanic relations steeped with an ethical embodiment of the hydrocommons and move towards a shared commonality between the ocean, humans and more-than-humans. The artists of the ocean chapter are Nordic artists Pontus Pettersson, Signe Johannessen, Sissel M. Bergh and Oceania artists Angela Tiatia, Clare Milledge, Talia Smith and Latai Taumoepeau. They each perform the hydro-artistic methods of tiding, waving and submerging to re-imagine the ocean and tell refreshing ocean stories as a site of shared realities, origins and futures. Through knowing the ocean intimately, there is a possibility to change the anthropocentric logics of domination and utility that underpins most human–ocean relations, and to move towards more caring and ethical modes of operating.
