Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, in partnership with the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia – New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ), hosted artist and writer Janine Randerson’s keynote presentation Fathomless: artists converse with the more-than-human. Randerson collaborates with urban meteorologists, glaciologists, climate scientists, community activists, tāngata whenua, and the more-than-human kin in local and internationally exhibited projects. In her lecture she asked, how do artists initiate dialogues with our more-than-human kin in this time of eco-political crisis?

This keynote presentation was part of Ngā tohu o te huarere: Conversations beyond human scales, ASLEC-ANZ Eighth Annual Conference Aotearoa, 23 - 26 November 2021, hosted by the English and Art History Programmes and the Centre for Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Randerson’s talk was streamed via zoom to a live audience in the exhibition Listening Stones Jumping Rocks.