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.
Falling Birds prints exhibited in EcoFutures group exhibition Staring at the Sun, Mile End Pavilion 5-14 Apr. As part of the exhibition Holding the Herbarium and Falling Birds poetic texts were presented at The EcoFutures Conference on 13 Apr at Queen Mary University of London.
Matterlurgy presents Geofictions as part of the Liquid Crystal Display group show at MIMA 23 Feb - 16 Jun.
Green Pigeon (X-ray), © Helena Hunter, 2019
Artquest Research Residency 2018/2019 at the Horniman Museum and Gardens Oct 2018 - Jan 2019 working with extinct and endangered birds in the Natural History Collection.
Matterlurgy installation Beneath the Signal and Noise featured in Third Text in a review of the Silver Sehnsucht group show at the Silver Building
Jussi Parikka features with-out-sound (poetic text) in his essay Cartographies of Environmental Arts in Posthuman Ecologies edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall.
Jussi Parikka writes about with-out-sound in The Midden edited by Jenni Nurmenniemi and Tracey Warr
Holding the Herbarium presented at Urgent Matters III: Soil, Poetry and Care curated by Phytology at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve London at 14.30 on 8 Sept
