ABOUT AFTER THE ICE, THE DELUGE
It is a queer upwelling, because what thrives at this juncture does not emerge from the seat of reproductive sexuality of humans, but instead from the ontological traumas instigated by climate change. The marker horizon of anthropogenesis – melting permafrost – has become the condition of possibility for latent beings, experiences, sensibilities, that can only be fathomed as the interpenetration spatial scales, temporalities, orientations, and sense organologies, not to mention that these are mediated in and through geotrauma.
Linda Stupart’s eerily powerful “After the Ice, the Deluge” is a meditation on the collaborative promise of loss. [...]This body, like the melting ice shelves, is traumatised and leaking: letting go of their own form and of what they hold. As dormant viruses hitherto locked in the permafrost begin to wake up, it is unclear whether Stupart’s ancient being is also a virus, as they enact strangely cathartic rituals, collaborating with diseases and the traumatised body of the Earth. These ritualised gestures allow for porosity and leakage, in order to become-with, precisely by not holding on, but letting go.
- - Hayley Singer, Anna Dunn, Tessa Laird, Stephanie Lavau, Blanche Verlie
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