SPHERE / Arctic Imagination Talks

Start: 2022-09-21T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-09-21T20:15:00-04:00
Location: Online

with Katherine Richardson & Angela Rawlings

Talks Festival events

NAC Orchestra

Sep 21, 2022 - 7 PM EDT

Integrating the arts into climate research

Danish-American biological oceanographer Dr. Katherine Richardson and Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist Dr. Angela Rawlings bring art and science together in conversation. Hear them discuss their experience on a research project in the Arctic Ocean where they gathered and examined sediment cores from 66,000 years ago to better understand the balance of past ecosystems, as well as the role that art can play in the climate crisis.

Co-hosted by the Royal Danish Library and the NAC Orchestra as part of the SPHERE Festival, Arctic Imagination is a not-to-be-missed speaker series pressing discussions on the transformation of the Arctic as the ice disappears — and the implications of climate change for geopolitics and human civilization as we know it.

Speakers:

Dr. Katherine Richardson has been in, on, or near to the sea all her life! A Professor in Biological Oceanography with the University of Copenhagen, Katherine’s scientific career spans meticulous studies of the smallest parts of the sea and carbon cycles in the world’s oceans to studies of biodiversity and interactions between humans, plants, animals, and climate. Her research focuses on the importance of biological processes in the ocean for the uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere, and how ocean biology, including diversity, contributes to ocean function in the Earth System.

Dr. Angela Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Their practice seeks and interrogates relationality between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non. Meditating on languages as inescapable lenses of human engagement, Rawlings’ methods over the past twenty years have included sensorial poetries, vocal and contact improvisation, theatre of the rural, and conversations with landscapes.

Artists

Professor in Biological Oceanography Katherine Richardson
Professor in Biological Oceanography Katherine Richardson

Dr. Katherine Richardson has been in, on, or near to the sea all her life! A Professor in Biological Oceanography with the University of Copenhagen, Katherine’s scientific career spans meticulous studies of the smallest parts of the sea and carbon cycles in the world’s oceans to studies of biodiversity and interactions between humans, plants, animals, and climate. Her research focuses on the importance of biological processes in the ocean for the uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere, and how ocean biology, including diversity, contributes to ocean function in the Earth System.

Le Dr Katherine Richardson a été dans, sur ou près de la mer toute sa vie! Professeur d'océanographie biologique à l'Université de Copenhague, la carrière scientifique de Katherine s'étend des études méticuleuses des plus petites parties de la mer et des cycles du carbone dans les océans du monde aux études de la biodiversité et des interactions entre les humains, les plantes, les animaux et le climat. Ses recherches portent sur l'importance des processus biologiques dans l'océan pour l'absorption de CO2 de l'atmosphère et sur la façon dont la biologie océanique, dans sa diversité diversité, contribue au fonctionnement de l'océan dans le système terrestre.
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interdisciplinary artist-researcher Angela Rawlings
interdisciplinary artist-researcher Angela Rawlings

a rawlings is a mineral, plant, animal, person, place, or thing. Also known as Dr. Angela Rawlings, they are a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Their practice seeks and interrogates relationality between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non. Meditating on languages as inescapable lenses of human engagement, rawlings’ methods over the past twenty years have included sensorial poetries, vocal and contact improvisation, theatre of the rural, and conversations with landscapes. 

rawlings has an extensive solo and group performance and exhibition background. They have performed throughout North America, Europe, and Australia at festivals including Roskilde Festival (Denmark), Oslo International Poetry Festival (Norway), and Tectonics Music Festival (Iceland, Scotland). Their work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Dedee Shattuck Gallery (USA), Hafnarborg (Iceland), Hanstholm Fyr (Denmark), and Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway).

rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). Their book Wide slumber was adapted to music theatre by Valgeir Sigurðsson and VaVaVoom (2014). Their libretti include Bodiless (for Gabrielle Herbst, 2014) and Longitude (for Davíð Brynjar Franzson, 2014). rawlings’ Áfall / Trauma was shortlisted for the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights (2013).

rawlings received their PhD from the University of Glasgow where they researched how to perform geochronology in the Anthropocene. In 2021-22, they are researching becoming-with whales in the climate crisis as a postdoctoral fellow with H.M. Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society. rawlings also teaches at the Iceland University of the Arts in the MFA for Performing Arts and MA in Music (New Audiences and Innovative Practices). rawlings loves in Iceland.

a rawlings est un minéral, une plante, un animal, une personne, un lieu ou une chose. Artiste interdisciplinaire et scientifique d’origine canado-islandaise, Angela Rawlings se sert des langues comme principal outil d’exploration. Son travail explore les liens unissant les corps – qu’ils soient humains, surhumains, autres qu’humains ou non-humains. Méditant sur les langues vues comme inéluctables prismes de l’interaction humaine, rawlings a utilisé plusieurs méthodes ces vingt dernières années, par exemple la poésie sensorielle, l’improvisation vocale et le contact improvisation, le théâtre de la ruralité, et même les conversations avec le paysage.

En solo ou en groupe, rawlings se produit dans divers festivals en Amérique du Nord, en Europe et en Australie, notamment le Festival de Roskilde (Danemark), le Festival international de poésie d’Oslo (Norvège) et le Festival de musique Tectonics (Islande, Écosse). Ses œuvres ont été exposées à l’étranger, notamment à la Dedee Shattuck Gallery (États-Unis), à Hafnarborg (Islande), à Hanstholm Fyr (Danemark) et à Kunsthall Trondheim (Norvège).

Parmi ses livres, on peut citer Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (en ligne, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017) et Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). Son livre Wide slumber a été adapté en comédie musicale par Valgeir Sigurðsson et VaVaVoom (2014). Le livret comprend Bodiless (pour Gabrielle Herbst, 2014) et Longitude (pour Davíð Brynjar Franzson, 2014). Son ouvrage Áfall / Trauma a été sélectionné pour le prix Leslie Scalapino récompensant l’innovation chez les femmes dramaturges (2013).

Après l'obtention d’un doctorat sur la pratique de la géochronologie dans l’anthropocène à l’Université de Glasgow, rawlings étudie depuis 2021 nos relations avec les baleines dans le contexte de la crise climatique, en tant que titulaire de bourse de recherche postdoctorale du Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire de la reine Margrethe et de Vigdís Finnbogadóttir sur l’océan, le climat et la société. rawlings enseigne également à l’Université islandaise des arts – à la maîtrise en arts de la scène et à la maîtrise en musique (nouveaux publics et pratiques innovantes). L’artiste vit en Islande.
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