Lovers in Death | Education & Conversation

L U N A R_B I O M E PUBLIC PROGRAM

Lovers in Death | Education & Conversation

An afternoon with our most vulnerable creatures

1pm, Saturday 21 February

Join Esk Studio for tea and a panel listening to storytelling about our most vulnerable creatures. We will learn about birds, fish, fungi and mammal, how they are struggling, and how we can help them.

Speakers include:

Sapphire McMillan Fisher: endangered fungi tea tree fingers and other fungi

Wren Mclean: Black necked stork and swamps

Jim Tait: Eastern Freshwater Cod

Tim Thorncraft: Greater Gliders

Brian Hawkins: Glossy Black Cockatoo

Daniel McCawley: Rare, unlisted, undescribed & missing species

L U N A R_B I O M E

Bowing down through ancient pulse,

the last lovers left alive…

Cycles eclipse, collapse, re-birth...

The tide of breath that holds.

Bones to stones, the trees in lungs

The dark space of quiet minds.

Carbon devours, in ritual soil

the sacred loops of time.

The Endlings,

gatekeepers of what will be,

forever lovers in death.

L U N A R_B I O M E brings together notions of grief, imagination and play in response to the collective existential reckoning of the times.

Using interactive modes of ritual performance, art, science and education this sequence of work seeks new modes of collective meaning in a rapidly changing climate and its ensuing social uncertainty.

“Our stories are struggling to accommodate the seismic dysphoria of the time. In order to stay resilient and productive we must find the spaces to sit with loss between action, and in process envision new ways of defining narrative.”

This work was developed through a co- creational process by Al Stark, Antoinette O’Brien, Aviva Reed, Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal and timecodespace.

This project was made possible through support of the Australian Government through Create NSW.

Image: Esk Studio, 2025. Courtesy of the artists.