New podcast: Undead Matter #3 - Conversation with writer Daisy Hildyard
speaks marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/undead-matter-3-existing-between>
*Undead Matter,* 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 third
episode, writer, Daisy Hildyard speaks with marine microbiologist, Karen
Lloyd about 100-million-year-old microbes, that breathe and excrete
minerals: bridging the organic and the non-organic, the living and the
non-living.
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/undead-matter-3-existing-between
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.
You can find the complete series so far here
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/undead-matter-14565>!
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