Ice

Elizabeth Povinelli, Melting Glaciers, Rising Seas – The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Gallery (2020). ‘When I am no longer a human, but nor am I a fish is a visual essay on the shape of the human’. Elizabeth A. Povinelli is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film Collective.

Susan Schuppli. A multi-year research project exploring how different knowledge practices from ice core science and glaciology to indigenous traditions, local observations, activism, policy, and law engage with the situated material conditions of ice.

Recording of Esther Leslie’s lecture “The Afterlife of Ice” at The Ice Club. Skogen May 3rd, 2019.

Meltwater: A Timepiece for the Arctic by Stephen Lezak, for Emergence Magazine. ‘As Stephen Lezak explores the paradoxical human narratives that overlay the Arctic landscape—a frontier, a paradise, a marker of humanity’s impact on the planet—he bears witness to a place that is teetering in an uneasy balance between eternity and loss.’

Existing Between, Undead Matter Podcast. “In this third episode, writer, Daisy Hildyard speaks with marine microbiologist, Karen Lloyd about 100-million-year-old microbes, that breathe and excrete minerals. From the small town of Ny Ålesund, Svalbard, Lloyd describes her explorations into the permafrost sub surface – where she extracts living microbes that have not interacted with the surface for at least 10,000 years – and questions the possible importance of the individual microbe within its community. Considering time as a malleable resource, they discuss the possibilities of differing perceptions of time, space and motion on different lifespan scales: from the human and the unfathomably ancient. Interwoven with readings from Hildyard’s book, The Second Body, the conversation bridges possibilities of dialogue, connections and the refusal of rules between the organic and the non-organic, the living and the non-living.” Undead Matter explroes the entangled lives of deep geological time and ever-turning matter. Curated by Sophie J Williamson