Podcasts - Undead Matter

Emergent Interstellar Dust

Artist and filmmaker, Himali Singh Soin with astrobiologist, Chandra Wickramasinghe discuss microbial fossils arriving on meteorites and the biosphere of the galaxy.

Being Mud

Choreographer, Okwui Okpokwasili and curator, Sophie J Williamson discuss how history secretes itself in bodies and resurfaces to reveal our entangled pasts that inform the future.

Nurturing the
Ancient Undead

Artist, Oreet Ashery in conversation with evolutionary biologist, Dr Tori Herridge about a genetically persevered 42,000-year-old Siberian foal and the cloning of mamoth DNA

Existing Between

Writer, Daisy Hildyard in conversation with marine microbiologist, Karen Lloyd about 100-million-year-old microbes, which hover somewhere within a murky existence between organic and mineral, the living and the non-living.

Resurfacing Lives

Artist Bo Choy speaks with Sayana Namsaraeva, an anthropologist from Buryatia, south-eastern Siberia, exploring the traditional traditions and stories that have emerged from the landscapes surrounding Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest freshwater lake on the planet, and how these influence worldviews and possibilities for the future.

Slow Life

Filmmaker, Shezad Dawood in conversation with Prof Mark Nutall, about 500-year-old Greenlandic sharks, the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species

Marking Silence

Poet, Myung Mi Kim in conversation with geographer, Kathryn Yusoff about the lives and histories demarcated amongst rock strata

Permafrost Hydrofeminism

Cultural theorist, Astrida Neimanis in conversation with permafrost hydrologist, Nikita Tananaev, discussing the cultural, philosophical and ecological implications of permafrost thawing and movement of ancient ecosystems.