Undead Matter is an unfolding conversation about where life lies in the ever-turning matter of our universe, as it rhythmically resurfaces over millennia.
Traversing the slippery space between the organic and the non-organic, the conversations travel from remote Siberia tundra, where ancient creatures are emerging from the melting permafrost; to deep within the geological substrata of the ocean bed amongst the sludge of millennia-year-old slow-living microorganisms; and outwards to the celestial expanse of interstellar dust ripe with life-giving potential, and back again.
Undead Matter has emerged through intersecting discussions with artists, poets, dancers, writers and musicians, as well cryomicrobiologists, death doulas, palaeontologists, geologists, permafrost geographers, mineralogists, archaeoastronomers, woodworkers, quantum physicists, bondage masters, cryonics speculators, indigenous elders and others met along the way. Each offer their own perspective on our place within the infinite impermanence of life: past, present and possible.
With Himali Singh Soin, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sophie J Williamson, Daisy Hildyard, Karen Lloyd, Myung Mi Kim, Kathryn Yusoff, Oreet Ashery, Tori Herridge, Shezad Dawood, Mark Nutall, Astrida Neimanis, Nikita Tananaev, Sayana Namsaraeva, Bo Choy, Rodion Sulyandziga, Carolina Caycedo, Elizabeth Povinelli and Nikita Zimov.
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