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“Sound is the genius loci or the very spirit of place’.

Immersive Arts is about relearning, creating worlds. My grief allow me to mine fresh ways into the immersive?

Voices of Coal is a story that has sat within me for over a decade.  It found it’s edges by recently reading David Farrier’s Anthropocene poetics.  David speaks of ‘Thick Time’ which resonated.  The weight of time was felt when my brother was diagnosed terminal.  He lived for a further four years after his diagnosis. Feelings were surpressed, eclipsed by practical thoughts of how my Dad continues to live on after my brother.  Entangled with extinction studies, understanding the precarity of life brought comfort, realising multispecies narratives, an unfolding of time. The early onset of my brothers death brought the need for more understanding. 

Anna Tsing asks us to know the world without progress stories, her book sketches open-ended assemblages of entangled ways of life, as these coalesce in coordination across many kinds of temporal rhythms."

In Extraction to Extinction, David Howe traces our environmental impact through time to unearth how our obsession with endlessly producing and throwing away more and more stuff has pushed the planet to its limit. And he considers the question: what does the future look like for our depleted world?

Stefan Skirmish curation, Thinking through Extinction.

Recommended by Dr. Stefan Skirmish, an interesting consultant to discuss grief, spirtiuality and extinction studies. I became interested in his work when he curated 'Thinking through Extinction' at Manchester Museum.

Sustainability and immersive tech

Tatiana Collet-Apraxine Unreal Engine Artist.

Time.

Astrida Neimanis

Workshops on Embodied documentary.

"The sauna-based rituals carried out by women of the Voro community of Estonia is so unique they appear on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Anna Hints’ captivating film places us at the heart of this world. As the women unwind and talk, there is humour borne of their familiarity with each other and of shared experiences, but there are also tales of pain and suffering. With few key exceptions, Hints’ camera focuses on the women listening rather than those doing the talking, further enveloping us in this world. There is a frankness to the way she films her subjects – the close-ups on bodies are matter of fact and never salacious. And the subtle sound design, combined with Edvard Egilsson’s atmospheric choral score, adds to the uniqueness of this intimate environment."

“The ability to heal is sometimes referred to as love, and it has been suggested that love is necessary in order for us, humans, to want to save another - kind/species/being - from extinction. Where does this leave the multitudes of unloved others? In thinking with love towards a healing practice for the Oceans, I want to emphasise their multiplicity, and while individually we may harbour an ability to heal ourselves, and others, togetherness is necessary for healing to be brought into practice.”

Ocean Memory.  Deep Time.