No.4: Notations
In the spaces delineated between Myung Mi Kim’s words, Mount Rundle’s strata, Roni Horn’s birds and Mary Helena Clark’s fleeting objects and sounds, lie potent silences full of the unarticulated, the unsayable, the unknown and the lingering presence of the no-more. – SJW Myung Mi Kim, accumulation of land (2009) https://undeadmatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Untitled-design.mp4 Myung Mi Kim […]
The Ties That Bind
To be with someone in their dying moments is arguably the most intimate experience we can share. I feel immensely privileged to have done so. It’s not one that many of us will experience more than a handful of times in our lives, if that. But those moments – suspended in a different realm of […]
On Silence
The interchange between the Overground and Victoria line at Highbury and Islington station in London during rush hour has been a fascination and daily joy to me for many years. Thousands of bustling commuters funnel through a narrow tunnel and down a set of stairs, shoulder to shoulder; the deafening noise of screeching trains, whirring […]
Ungrounded
Mochu, Semiconductor, Larissa Araz, Alper Aydin, Ben Rivers, Ithell Colquhoun and others search for different ways to engage not only with the ‘critical zone’ of Earth’s surface but also the planet’s volatile core, enabling us to reconnect with our ‘geological ancestry’. In N K Jemisin’s dystopian trilogy Broken Earth, 2015–17, precarious societies struggle to survive amongst […]
Future Eaters
In early March, in the early days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I received an anonymous letter, signed by its authors with single initials, J and L. It was an appeal for support and to maintain channels of dialogue from artists and cultural workers in Yakutia, in far north-eastern Siberia. I could guess from […]
Future Eaters
Previous Next In early March, in the early days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I received an anonymous letter, signed by its authors with single initials, J and L. It was an appeal for support and to maintain channels of dialogue from artists and cultural workers in Yakutia, in far north-eastern Siberia. I could […]
Test conversation page
Writer, Daisy Hildyard in conversation with microbiologist, Karen Lloyd. EXISTING BETWEEN Writer, Daisy Hildyard in conversation with microbiologist, Karen Lloyd. Writer, Daisy Hildyard speaks with marine microbiologist, Karen Lloyd about 100-million-year-old microbes, that breathe and excrete minerals. From the small town of Ny Ålesund, Svalbard, Lloyd describes her explorations into the permafrost sub surface – […]
No.12: Stillness, Mimicry
Continued… Tonic Immobility, Self Mimesis, Apparent Death, Thanatosis, or Playing Dead. Figure Minus Fact (constellation No.4: Notations) includes images of plant and animal mimicry, where insects become space via camouflage, or in the case of the shark, self-mimesis, where the shark mimics itself, dead, conjuring its inevitable future. Here stillness alludes to becoming an image, […]
No.11: Mimicry, Stillness
Eva-Maria Houben, Breath For Organ (2018) A piece which composes breath that expresses ‘how many ways sound can disappear.’ Vibration nearing stillness, at the edge of perception. How does the organ sound decay? – MHC https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ys6JJ1DbFtw Presence – Silence – Disappearance Some thoughts on the perception of ‘nearly nothing’ Yesterday there was my piano recital […]
No. 6: Syncopation
Syncopation: this is not to be confused with the term’s musical association in ideas of harmonious fusion or amalgamation but an important space that leads to ways of looking and hearing that dismantle a linear trajectory, instead revealing contradiction, fluctuation and uncertainty. This is a space where things get mirky and parameter lines are made […]