Hear from internationally renowned artist Marguerite Humeau on her artistic practice, deep time and the animate earth. Humeau’s work imagines energy as metabolic, distributed and non-human. In Extraction, her work offers a way into thinking about what lies beneath West Lothian's landscape across millennia.
Humeau’s examination of transformation, growth and survival are a vital part of the conversation around energy and the world to come. Rather than a solution or utopia, her work offers a provocation in this context: what happens when the next system no longer centres us?
Humeau will be in conversation with writer Esther Leslie, whose research interests include the culture and the poetics of science and technology. Leslie is a Professor in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, London and a a Fellow of the British Academy.