AHC x Astrid Noacks Atelier : Talk: Rikke Luther & Karina Sand

On Thursday, 9 November, Astrid Noack's Atelier invites you to the conversation 'Death and Life in Mud, a Split-Second over 2 Million Years' between Rikke Luther and geochemist Karina Krarup Sand (GLOBE Institute, Geogenetics).

The conversation will revolve around the processes between what we define as organic and inorganic; between organic molecules and mineral surfaces and the significance for life in muddy environments with fragmented 2-million-year-old e-DNA everywhere. What happens when the sea divides new landscapes with land and river erosions, and when oceans of material are transformed and moved from melted areas?

The conversation takes place in connection with Rikke Luther's exhibition and project Mud in the Earth System, which is shown at Astrid Noack's Atelier from 3 November until 3 December 2023.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Mud in the Earth System is Rikke Luther's exhibition at Astrid Noack's Atelier (ANA), which is part of Rikke Luther's post.doc. project, hosted by Art Hub Copenhagen, and also part of Rikke Luther's participation in NAARCA - a Scottish-Nordic collaboration, which AHC is a partner in - that works to create long-term collaborations on research, institutional changes, and public education with a focus on climate action.

Mud in the Earth System follows up on and further develops Rikke Luther's The New Mud, which was shown in ANA in 2021. In the first exhibition, Luther highlighted through a series of research-based works how new unpredictable weather caused by climate change – related to human activities – creates new unpredictable mud. In this second exhibition, Luther continues her extended investigations of mud movements.

The exhibition includes new textiles, stills, and research material from Luther's ongoing work in relation to the practice-based artistic research project The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System. It also includes a work from the earlier project Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post Democracy (2017- 2021). The new work, which examines mud in Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, and the sea landscape from a Gotland perspective, focuses on the social and political, on acceleration, and the effects mud movements have in the landscape - in the geosphere and biosphere.

For millennia, static mud has enabled cultural exchanges across legal boundaries. Rising global temperatures are now resulting in their movement. Melting glaciers and ice caps result in mud. Old mud flats and swamps reclaim space as human settlement declines. Permafrost melts and sinks, landslides occur, lakes recede, and their lakebeds collapse. Swelling mud slides towards the seas and helps to facilitate the increasingly distorted circulations of the Earth system.

As part of a more comprehensive attempt to establish a new ethical and aesthetic public language that can communicate the crisis in the Earth system, the exhibition thus explores the socio-organizational effects of moving mud and the bio-communicative effects of mud in transformation.

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Rikke Luther: Mud in the Earth System

November 3rd - December 3rd, 2023

Opening Friday, November 3rd, from 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm

Astrid Noack's Atelier

Rådmandsgade 34

2200 Copenhagen N

Read more here: https://astrid-noack.dk/