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Time Network fund, collaboration with Leeds University Geology labs. Extraction of 'Voices from Coal'.

Guiliana Bruno- modernist ruins, filmic archaeologies, quote:

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

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Thomas Attig. "Grieving is a process of relearning the world".

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

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Anthropocene Poetics. David Farrier.

"A poetics of the Anthropocene can help us to appreciate in new ways what it means to live enfolded by deep time."

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. 

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The Mushroom at the End of the World, on the possibility of life in capitalist ruin. Anna Tsing.

I create work from lived experience, my process and methods into making this project are also my grief.  The project is one of reconnecting, relearning....

Anna Tsing, "third nature, we must evade assumptions that the future is that singular direction ahead.  Like virtual particles in a quantum field, multiple futures pop in and out of possibility; third nature emerges within such temporal polyphony.

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."

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Extraction To Extinction. David Howe.

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?

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Stefan Skirmish curation, Thinking through Extinction.

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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.

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Sustainability and immersive tech

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Miner Mo-cap Test

Tatiana Collet-Apraxine Unreal Engine Artist.

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Sound Design- Thinking about time, about how the ocean carries our ancestors.....creating a sound design that echoes and aches of the past lives of women. A place where our spirits run free together.

This film is described as

"As four researchers embark on an expedition to drill ice cores in the Arctic in subzero temperatures, the presence of these visitors is witnessed by Utuqaq—ice that lasts year after year. With a memory that extends millions of years into the past and a present form that shapeshifts in intricate patterns over the surface of the vast white landscape, this beautiful and vital Arctic ice is facing an increasingly uncertain future as the world warms."

There is something forebearing in this sound scape, as it creeks across the land....consider over my drone footage at the end.

Also consider the five women dancing at the beginning of my film and five women stood at the end. Full circle, cyclical, not linear.

Time.

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"Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it.

Building on the works by Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Astrida Neimanis's book is a landmark study that brings a new feminist perspective to bear on ideas of embodiment and ecological ethics in the posthuman critical moment."

Astrida Neimanis

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Workshops on Embodied documentary.

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Inspiration: Embodied female phenomenologic film, eco-consciousness.

"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."

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Togetherness stories for healing (with) the Oceans.  

“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.”

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Ocean Memory.  Deep Time.