Looking back at Ice Memory

On 4 December we welcomed Professor Susan Schuppli for an evening presentation Ice Memory hosted by BAK basecamp, alongside The Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies and the Network for Environmental Humanities. From Ice Core archives to the sound of Himalayan glaciers, Schuppli shared elements from her practice that relate to memory in the context of the politics of the cryosphere. 

Her presentation asked: What would it mean politically if we were to consider human history and memory alongside much broader expressions of spatio-temporal re-orderings and re-assembly, which by extension must include the innumerable ways in which environments themselves are registering and archiving change?

The next morning, she joined our small group for a session reading chapters from her inspirational book Material Witness and her text on cryoception. We discussed much more, thinking through each of our projects and generously reflecting on our approach to Ecologies of Violence. 

We hope to welcome Professor Schuppli back to Utrecht soon.