Photo by Martha McCulloch
Utopia Ducks presented a participatory performance which discusses the colonial history of Fort Dunree and the famine days in Inishowen in the contemporary context of climate change. The performance questioned the global spend on arms and the arms industry’s effect on sustainability and proposed a radical imagining of a world without war and starvation. We led a procession through the site as part of the event and afterwards cooked and eat utopian potatoes while evoking female energy.
Since summer 2017 Rebecca has been occupying a walled space at Fort Dunree. It has developed into a community garden growing organic fruit, vegetables and herbs. The space also sets out to nurture biodiversity and so wildflowers grow between the beds and bring bees and other pollinators to the garden. In March 2018 heritage potato varieties were set in beds prepared with seaweed harvested from the shore at the fort and which we harvested on the day of this event. After our performance, people gathered in the walled garden around a peace symbol we made from stones from the shore of the fort. It was a day that ended with music, poetry and people in conversation.
Female energy has great power. As grandmothers, mothers, daughters, grandaughters and sisters we can tap into that source knowing there is another way to live in the world.
Photos by Martha McCulloch
Utopia Ducks 