Ifor Duncan presented a keynote at the Liquid, Solid & Gaseous: Remembering Through and with Water Conference at King’s College London

On June 25th, our Postdoc Ifor Duncan provided the keynote entitled “The Depositional Zone: Archive, Evidence and the Causal River” at the Liquid, Solid & Gaseous: Remembering Through and with Water Conference at King’s College London organised by Elisabetta Visaggio & Josefina Vidal Miranda.

The talk drew on practice-based research methods conducted by Ifor in contexts where rivers and political violence intersect. Duncan will explore water bodies as both sites of evidence and social and material archives. The presentation drew on moving image, sound investigation, and interviews from situated research as well as with forensic scientists and sedimentologists to examine the sensorial and temporal space of rivers. By doing so, Ifor seeks to develop an understanding of these water bodies as a hydrological continuum expanding above and below surface. Conceiving of rivers as dynamic political ecologies enables him to examine the interlapping fields of causality that produce and result from multiple forms of violence. This research works towards a practice-based methodology that counters the drive to produce and maintain impunity through rivers.