New podcast: Undead Matter #2. Conversation between geographer Kathryn
Yusoff speaks with poet Myung Mi Ki
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/undead-matter-2-marking-silences>
Undead Matter
<
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/undead-matter-14565>, a new
series by *Sophie J Williamson,* is an unfolding conversation about where
life lies in the ever-turning matter of our universe, as it rhythmically
resurfaces over millennia. In this second episode, poet Myung Mi Kim speaks
with geographer, Kathryn Yusoff about the lives and histories demarcated in
the silence between words and amongst rock strata.
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/undead-matter-2-marking-silences
Undead Matter is an unfolding conversation about where life lies in the
ever-turning matter of our universe, as it rhythmically resurfaces over
millennia. In this second episode, geographer Kathryn Yusoff speaks with
poet Myung Mi Kim about the potencies of past lives, traumas, histories and
possibilities that are held in the demarcated silences between the rock
strata and between words. They consider the multiple ‘broken worlds’ that
have come before our current perceptions of ecological crisis, and how
descriptions of geologies have perpetuated colonial narratives erasing the
geotraumas imposed on peoples through colonial extraction and violence.
They question the possible sites of politics, intimacies and scripts of
life, as places with the potential to activate new realities, as matter and
words reform around us, time and again. Interweaving the conversation are
readings of Kim’s poetry and a sound work by artist Shamica Ruddock. At the
end of the podcast, the full sound work by Ruddock, *Sun Dial 51.3861°,
1.3520°* plays out, as it reaches downwards to the geological substrata
beneath our feet.
Undead Matter, initiated and convened by curator Sophie J Williamson, is an
ongoing collective project, materialising slowly and organically in
exhibitions, events, podcasts, publishing and the intangible. The Undead
Matter programme has emerged through intersecting collaborations with
artists, poets, dancers and musicians, as well cryomicrobiologists, shamen,
paleontologists, mineralogists, archaeoastronomers, woodworkers, quantum
physicists, bondage masters, cryonics speculators and others encountered
along the way. Each offers a perspective on our place within the infinite
impermanence of life: past, present and possible.
*E/N/J/O/Y!*
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*Take care*