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 […]
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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
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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 – […]