deep time
05 December
4.30PM - 7PM GMT
join us for the first part in our new super/collider Margate Science Festival in association with Faith in Strangers.
tickets £11.37 or £3 unwaged/low-earner / buy tickets here - If you do not have funds to buy a ticket, please do let us know. ticket sales for this event go towards the running costs of super/collider.
our first event will focus on the concept of deep time. we will hear from Robert Macfarlane, Timothy Morton and Flora Bowden. this event is supported by Arts Council England.
during the event, we would like visitors to consider the ecological deep time history of Margate and the surrounding areas. the chalk cliffs of Margate were built up by ocean sediment over many thousands of years. as we walk along the cliffside, we view a physical manifestation of layers of compressed time.
within this event we will consider how thinking on a "deep time" scale can alter our perception of our environment. can long term thinking help us to make better decisions that allow us to value and care for our environment?
Robert Macfarlane
Robert MacFarlane will be in conversation with Flora Bowden. Macfarlane will also read from his new book Underland: A Deep Time Journey, published in May 2019. hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. in Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
Robert Macfarlane is the author of Underland, Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and The Lost Words, co-created with Jackie Morris. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. the Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. he is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.
Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton will discuss deep time in context with a number of his texts, including “Dark Ecology: For A Logic of Future Coexistence” and “Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People”.
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. he has collaborated with Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. he co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future's Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. he is the author of Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), eight other books and 200 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. his work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014, Morton gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.
Flora Bowden
Flora Bowden is a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art who works across printmaking, painting and sculpture. her work draws on a broad range of research including scientific history, archaeology, digital archives and museology. It is concerned with the multiple temporalities of the image, with the interplay of various pasts and presents in the space of the image, and with the questions of vulnerability, openness and suggestibility that they raise.
her work has been exhibited at galleries including at GroundWork Gallery and APT Gallery among others, and she has taught at institutions including The Royal College of Art, Rice University and Gothenburg University.
Timeline
4.30pm - Introduction by super/collider and Faith In Strangers. Talk by Flora Bowden.
5pm - Talk by Timothy Morton & Q+A
6pm - Robert Macfarlane and Flora Bowden In Conversation, Q+A.
About Faith In Strangers
Faith in Strangers' provide a platform for a diverse range of contributors. Faith In Strangers will create a cultural programme that includes music, film, immersive performance, installations, experimental digital art, academic talks, food & drink, workshops and more. Faith In Strangers is a multi-use space in Margate, housing arts and cultural events as well as a shared workspace for creative individuals.
this event is curated by Louise Beer and Melanie King.
***This event will be accessed online. We will send you the viewing link on the day of the event. ***
Image by Melanie King.