Sensitives Stream online launch event, Arts Catalyst, Thursday 27 May.
A conversation between artist duo Matterlurgy (Helena Hunter & Mark Peter Wright) and Professor Veronica Strang. Taking as a starting point ways of engaging with what lives in water and the role of such organisms in constituting a common planet the event will explore how human and non-human relations can be collectively re-imagined within river catchments.
Sensitives Stream is an online project by Matterlurgy (Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright) that shares research and practice from their residency with Arts Catalyst as part of Test Sites. The project highlights the importance of river-dwelling organisms and how their presence or absence indicates broader stories in relation to ecosystems, environmental stress and human activity.
You can now watch online a short film with poems and images from my exhibition Falling Birds at the Horniman Museum. The film has a soundtrack by sound artist Mark Peter Wright and is part of the Corbel Stone Press 10 Year Anniversary Event at The Aerial Festival.
Secretarybird (Xray) © Helena Hunter 2019
Falling Birds will be exhibited at The Horniman Museum and Gardens from 19 Sept 2020. The display features artworks that blend larger-than-life X-ray images of extinct and endangered bird specimens from the Horniman’s Natural History collection with fragments of poetic text. The artworks open up questions about natural history, authorship, ethics and gesture towards hidden narratives that are materially entangled in the lives of birds. The artworks were developed during an Artquest research residency at the Museum.
Excerpts from my Falling Birds poems have been published in Reliquiae Vol 8 No 2 (Autumn 2020) Corbel Stone Press, edited by Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton. This volume is packed with mytho-, magico- and eco-poetics and is available to order here
AIR_MORPHOLOGIES will be exhibited as part of Enter Through the Headset 5 at Gazelli Art House London from 4 Sept – 4 Oct. The artworks on display include 3 short films Breathe, Touch and Sense alongside a 360 video of the Air Morphologies virtual environment. These works were developed during an artist residency at Delfina Foundation in London as part of the Science, Technology, Society programme funded by Gaia Art Foundation.
Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Paradox Paradise is a virtual exhibition turning its lens on artistic production in times of COVID-19. It poses the question of how visual art -in the context of social distancing, national demarcation, domestic retreat, economic downturn, rising nationalism, and encompassing surveillance – can open up alternative paths for reflection, transformation and solidarity.
Artist residency at gazell.io Gazelli Art House’s digital platform. The residency shares work in progress from AIR_MORPHOLOGIES a project that investigates the materiality and composition of air pollution particles, their causes, effects and morphological agency. The artworks address toxic matters across film, sound, photographic collage, VR and were developed as part of Delfina Foundation’s Science, Technology, Society programme funded by Gaia Art Foundation.
AIR_MORPHOLOGIES will be presented at Tate Modern in London on Thur 5 Mar 12.00-17.00 on level 5 of the Blavatnik Building as part of Tate Exchange. The presentation includes VR demos of the AIR_MORPHOLOGIES project developed during a residency at Delfina Foundation in London working with scientists and artsXR. The event is part of Uni to Unicorns organised by the Digital Maker Collective. The Delfina Foundation Residency was funded by Gaia Art Foundation.
Delfina Foundation have produced a short film: Delfina Presents Matterlurgy, about AIR_MORPHOLOGIES a project developed as part of Matterlurgy's residency as UK Artist Associates on the the Science Technology Society program funded by Gaia Art Foundation.
AIR_MORPHOLOGIES an evening of critical discussion, performative presentations and live VR demos with Delfina UK Associate duo Matterlurgy (Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright) in collaboration with the Digital Maker Collective.
Screening of a new short film Rehearsals for Uncertain Futures at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art on 5 Dec 2019. The film was developed during a commission from the Centre for Geohumanities at Royal Holloway University and involved working with climate scientist Professor Martin King.
A Human offer of Recognition (poetic text) has been included in Alterity Five which features the work of fourteen poets, writers and artists commissioned to respond - via reassembly, erasure, blackout and anagram - to The Cambridge Declaration On Consciousness - a declaration signed by scientists that proclaims consciousness in non-human animals.
Matterlurgy will be UK Artist Associates in Residence in 2019 for the Science Technology Society thematic programme at Delfina Foundation in London.
Holding the Herbarium (poetic text) has been published in MAI Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture in their special issue June 2019.
Falling Birds prints exhibited as part of Re: Everything which exists under the sky exhibition at Gasworks, London 23-26 May.
Falling Birds performance presented as part of Re: Everything which exists under the sky closing event at Gasworks London at 16.00 on 26 May.
A workshop on Water Ecologies at MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), writing and listening with the River Tees at 13.00 on 18 May.
Matterlurgy presents a screening of their new short film Rehearsals for Uncertain Futures at Raven Row, London at 19.00 on 9 May
Matterlurgy’s solo exhibition Cabinets of Consequence is featured in Remain by Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider, published by University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
