Ocean School Podcast Episode 1: Introduction to Ocean School
This is the pilot episode for the temporary Open Art School called “Ocean School,” created by the art collective Ocean School Collective (OSC) as part of their 2025 Goetemann Environmental/Installation Artist Residency at the Ocean Alliance on Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts from September 4th to September 28, 2025, sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony. In this episode, artist-philosopher Kate Farrington, Ph.D. (whose title at OSC is “Chief Curriculum Officer”) gives a basic introduction to the philosophical framework of the project. Topics include: History of the Ocean School Collective, basic outline of the collective’s plan for the G.A.R. Residency at the Ocean Alliance for the month of September 2025, as well as an introduction to her background and the philosophical framework of the residency as a “place-as-medium” project. Listeners are invited to dive into the world of whales with OSC through speculative fabulation as a way to participate in a new environmental ethic called “ocean thinking.”
Ocean School Podcast Episode 2: Introduction to Ocean Thinking
This is the second episode of Ocean School, the temporary open art school created by the art collective Ocean School Collective (OSC) as part of their 2025 Goetemann Environmental/Installation Artist Residency at the Ocean Alliance on Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts from September 4th to September 28, 2025, sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony. In this episode, artist-philosopher Kate Farrington, Ph.D. (whose title at OSC is “Chief Curriculum Officer”) introduces “ocean thinking” in a free-flowing conversation with Liz DiFiore, the Community Engagement Manager at BevCam in Beverly, Massachusetts. Listeners are invited to think about how art can reimagine our ethical relationships to the special places we love.
