Seismic Mother - Book Launch, Volcanologist Talk and Performances

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Seismic Mother Exhibition and events programme presents: 

3.00 PM - Performances by Johanna Bramli & Ed Chivers , Hannah Grasskamp and Conny Prantera 

4.00 PM - Talk by Volcanologist Tamsin Mather 

Tamsin Mather studies volcanic processes and their impacts on the Earth's environment. Mather is a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxfordand a fellow of University College, Oxford and will present a talk; Volcanoes, from fuming vents to extinction events.

5.00 PM - Book Launch Stephen Cornford - 'PETRIFIED MEDIA’

Drawing on the contemporary debate around the Anthropocene, Stephen Cornford (GB) speculates on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record. To travel vertically into the Earth is to look back in time, so to project an object of electronic waste into a potential future in which it petrifies in the lithosphere, Cornford melted his phone in a geological furnace at temperatures up to 1500ºC.

Stephen Cornford will introduce the book and there will be copies available to view and buy. 

5.30 PM - BOOK display selected by Seismic Mother curators Holly Birtles & Charly Blackburn. View books, speak to the artists and join us for a drink. Book display open until 7.00PM.

Books on display include: Victoria Ahrens ‘Territories of Practice’, Hiske Altena ‘Vital Mud’, Holly Birtles/Tim Burrough ‘On Growth and Form’, Alfonso Borragan ‘Marentus’, Tamsin Green ‘WALKING OUT OF SLEEP: encounters with lichen territory’, Martin Howse ‘Becoming Geological’, Rowena Hughes ‘Elasticity, Fracture & Flow’, Hettie Judah ‘Lapidarium:The secret Life of Stones’, Allan Parker & Atelier Prati Pure Land Press ‘The Fragment Corpora’, Veronique Rolland ‘Memories of an Unknown Island’ Himali Singh Soin, ‘Static Range’ 

6.00 PM - Participatory performance with resonant rocks , urging the body into deep time, sounding to slow down - by Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White)

Optional film screening: Steven McInerney - Original soundtrack by Howlround - 'A Creak In Time' is a 27-minute meditation on the ever-expanding fractal universe with recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos.