terrain erratique
Photo credit Brass Art (2023)Performance and temporary public installation at the University of Manchester for Rocky Futures. Created in collaboration with Manchester Museum. Glacial erratic (in the collection of Earth Sciences, Manchester Museum), Mylar blankets, Foil Helium Balloons.
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https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/rocky-climates/2023/06/21/the-manchester-museum-erratic-with-brass-art/ Images
“Each of the artists in the live broadcasts featured in Rocky Futures also exhibit an intimacy with rock, yet they understand and interact with stone in very different, less interventionist ways. These differing approaches stimulate a plethora of reflections and affects, and in so doing, all underline that there is no essential, singular perspective that might disclose any lithic essence or fundamental way of knowing rocky matter. They exemplify Kathleen Stewart’s (1996: 5) focus upon the ‘haunting or exciting presence of traces, remainders and excess uncaptured by claimed meanings’, drawing out the superfluities that reside in rocks while inviting speculation, imagination, memories and the making of connections.
Their concern with rocks intersects with the outpouring of conceptual and empirical work associated with a renewed focus on mobilities. Like all matter, rocks are caught up in ‘different relations and durations of movement, speed and slowness (Latham and McCormack, 2004: 705). The live broadcasts contributions reveal the hugely varied forms of mobility in which rocks become entangled, mobilities of extraordinarily diverse scales, speeds, temporalities and spatialities.”
Excerpt from Tim Edensor’s catalogue essay
Thank you to Sarah Casey, Jen Southern and Rebecca Birch ( Rocky Climates research network) at University of Lancaster; Dr David Gelsthorpe, Head of Earth SciencesManchester Museum; Katy Suggitt; John Harrison; Nick Dodd; Maddie Vietmeier; Emma Illingworth