Lewis, C., Anneke, P., Kristin, M., 2023.
Terrain Erratique, Rocky Futures Symposium contribution:
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o Performance and interview with Head of Earth Sciences at Manchester University, was screened at Rocky Futures, University of Lancaster, UK and Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea as part of the 20th Anniversary of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)
o The conference was promoted by Future Everything.
o Rocky Climates is an experimental practice-based research network, developed by Sarah Casey, Jen Southern and Rebecca Birch at University of Lancaster that brings together artists and researchers who are concerned with the mobilities and instabilities (temporal, spatial, cultural, environmental) of landscapes in uncertain times.
o https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/rocky-climates/rocky-futures/ Online catalogue
including a 'Forward' by Professor Lynne Pearce, Co-Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research, and catalogue essay by Professor Tim Edensor.
o Brass Art's page in the online catalogue- https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/rocky-climates/2023/06/21/the-manchester-museum-erratic-with-brass-art/
Tim Edensor catalogue essay
"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."