Details About the End of Project workshop

 

14th December 2015 10.30-17.00

Location: Peter Scott Gallery , Lancaster University

View documentary film about the project>>

 

The event will provide an opportunity to expand conversations opened up through the Dark Matters project by bringing together a range of speakers from the arts and humanities, the social and physical sciences, all involved in working at the interstices between the manifest and the unmanifest, evidence and speculation, the known and unknown and unknowable, the human and inhuman.

 

 Questions explored will include:

-   Is there a way to formulate imperceptibility, invisibility, insensibility beyond anthropocentric conceptions of knowledge production?

-   What might be the role of intuition and imagination in accounting for the imperceptible?

-    What are the roles of 'proxies' or 'sentinels' for approaching the imperceptible and what are their ontological status?

-    How do different scales and locations of imperceptibility challenge human levels of receptivity and responsiveness to current planetary challenges?

-    What does it mean to account for the imperceptible beyond technological limitations?

-    What might be the contribution of the arts in enhancing a critical sensibility to spaces in-between touch-non touch, feeling – unfeeling, knowing – not knowing?

 

Keynotes from: Karen Barad (University of Santa Cruz), Martin Kemp (Oxford University), Roberto Trotta (Imperial College)

 

 Speakers include: Sarah Casey (Lancaster University), Fiona Crisp (Northumbria University), Rebecca Ellis (Lancaster University), Kostas Dimopoulos (Lancaster University), Sasha Engelmann (University of Oxford, and the Technische Universität Braunschweig), Aura Heydenreich (ELINAS, Erlangen), Klaus Mecke (ELINAS, Erlangen), Jol Thomson (Technische Universität Braunschweig), Neal White (Bournemouth University)

 

The workshop will be accompanied by an exhibition of new drawings by Sarah Casey developed during the Dark Matters project.

 

 The workshop and exhibition have been made possible thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Institute of Physics and Lancaster University, FASS and Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts.

 

 

 

Exhibition 15th December 2015 - 14th January 2016 

Opening event 11th December 2016, 6pm

 

An exhibition of artworks developed through the project alongside material from theoretical cosmology. A docuemntary film about the project and its ideas will also be shown in the gallery space. The exhibition has been made possible thanks to a public engagement grant from the Institute of Physics.