Please note: This event took place in Jan 2021
Join us for our first Lunchtime Talk of 2021 and the fifth in a series exploring Future Themes in the Studio. Studio resident Alison Neighbour will be asking how do we connect across time and place to imagine the future?
Three time zones, three hundred and sixty tides, and a chess game with the sea. How do we connect across time and place to imagine the future?
This talk will explore three journeys that start from a common meeting point at a lighthouse on the possible future coast path of Wales, some way inland, looking out to sea.
Alison will be joined by Ken Eklund and Vikram Iyengar who invite you to travel with them across time and place to follow the threads of their discussions, challenges, and collaborative artworks that have emerged in response to their fears and hopes around the future of our impermanent land as sea levels rise. They’ll look at the gaps in the data maps, losing at chess, and the responsibility of leaving the best gift in the world. This talk will be broadcast simultaneously live from Folkestone, Calcutta, and Corvallis (USA) and will also share the processes the team has used to collaborate from three very different places at different times.
This is part of the development of The (Future) Wales Coast Path, a project by Alison Neighbour conceived in response to flood map predictions of rising sea levels and displacement of people in Wales in the near future. Alison is working towards a series of installations, walks, and audio experiences on the Welsh (future) coastline, in collaboration with partners in countries where sea level rise is already proving a daily and devastating reality.