{"id":10590,"date":"2021-10-29T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2022-02-18T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T11:32:10","slug":"atherton-borrowed-time-rowan-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atherton-borrowed-time-rowan-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Live from the Rowan Tree and the International Space Station: A Celebratory Gathering’ – Michelle Atherton in conversation at the Borrowed Time symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelle Atherton<\/a> is in conversation about her participatory event: Live from the Rowan Tree and the International Space Station: A Celebratory Gathering<\/em><\/a> at the Borrowed Time: on death, dying and change<\/em><\/a> symposium on Monday 01 November.<\/p>\n

As a prequel Zoom event for the symposium, Live from the Rowan Tree…<\/em> took the form of a Celebratory Gathering on the evening of 15 October. The session explored\u00a0how we might publicly acknowledge the lives of those no longer living, beyond the funeral and the obituary. Asking how, in secular European cultures, do we bestow significance on a life and mark the lives of the dead? If what is important about life is how it is lived, how do we collectively judge what is consequential, what counts, what really matters? Equally, how do we move away from anthropocentric views on the worth or value of the life of other species and other organisms?<\/p>\n

To address these questions participants were invited to celebrate, in their own way, friends, loved ones or anyone, any organism or anything no longer in existence and in so doing pay tribute to the full spectrum of life and matter. From the recently or long-since deceased to those that are now extinct, extinguished and forgotten, whether human or not. During the gathering participants shared their tributes through whatever form they wished, whether through testimony, stories, song, tears, toasts, chanting, recipes, contestation, poetry, imagery or silence\u2026<\/p>\n

The aim of the gathering was to collectively create an audible space for the dead to be with the living; to give participants a chance to celebrate the lives and impact of people or non-human life; to register those that might be overlooked or not considered significant.<\/p>\n

The event marks the beginning of a new research project considering our relationships with transience, ecologies of burial and how decompositions is a generative, more-than-human process.<\/p>\n

Michelle Atherton will discuss the event with its participants at the Borrowed Time<\/em> Symposium.<\/p>\n

Live from the Rowan Tree and the International Space Station: A Celebratory Gathering<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nMonday 01 November 2021, 1530-1600
\nFor more information and how to book please see the event website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Borrowed Time: on death, dying and change<\/em><\/a> symposium runs from Sunday 31 October \u2013 Tuesday 02 November 2021 and is organised by <\/span>art.earth<\/a> and <\/span>The Dark Mountain Project<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image credit:<\/strong> Rowan Tree<\/a><\/em> by Eeno11 \u2013 Own work, European Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia<\/i>) photographed at dawn in October 2008 in Co. Wicklow in Ireland. Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.<\/p>\n

\n

Michelle Atherton<\/a>‘s work considers particular moments or sets of conditions in our collective histories. I commonly use a remix aesthetic, incorporating sound, image, text, lighting effects and collaborative strategies to create fragmented narratives as hooks to explore our slippery perceptions of the world. The aim is look again at matters that seem settled, beyond question, but where inherent instability opens into other questions of material states, refusals, politics and new imaginaries.<\/p>\n

Michelle\u2019s artwork and research has been supported by the Arts Council UK and the Arts and Humanities Research Council and shown throughout Europe in variety of contexts including galleries and museums, festivals, and conferences, and via publication. Michelle is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and a researcher in the Art, Design & Media Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Atherton is in conversation about her participatory event: Live from the Rowan Tree and the International Space Station: A Celebratory Gathering at the Borrowed Time: on death, dying and change symposium on Monday 01 November. As a prequel Zoom event for the symposium, Live from the Rowan Tree… took the form of a Celebratory Gathering on the evening of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[1648,1796,1795,1797,109,1794,264],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-admrc","tag-art-earth","tag-borrowed-time-symposium","tag-dark-project-mountain","tag-fine-art-research","tag-live-from-the-rowan-tree-and-the-international-space-station","tag-michelle-atherton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2021\/10\/ATHERTON-Rowan-Tree-Borrowed-Time-Rowan-Tree-by-Eeno11-%E2%80%93-Own-work-CC-BY-SA-3.0-commons.wikimedia.org_w_index.php_curid.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2KO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11340,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/michelle-athertons-the-invite-the-impetus-the-chat-featured-in-art-earth-borrowed-time-death-dying-and-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":10590,"position":0},"title":"Michelle Atherton’s ‘The Invite, The Impetus, & The Chat’ featured in art.earth Borrowed Time: Death,\u00a0Dying and Change","author":"Phoebe Bolton","date":"16\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"image by art.earth \u00a0 A new piece of writing by Michelle Atherton has been published in Matt Osmond & Richard (Eds.)\u00a0Borrowed Time: Death,\u00a0Dying and Change\u00a0art.earth, Kingsbridge, Devon, England 2022. The book\u2019s overall premise is that: \u2018we\u2019re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Borrowed Time book cover","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/12\/BT-book-cover-spread-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C570&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/12\/BT-book-cover-spread-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C570&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/12\/BT-book-cover-spread-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C570&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/12\/BT-book-cover-spread-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C570&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/12\/BT-book-cover-spread-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C570&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11944,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/an-unwell-world-michelle-atherton\/","url_meta":{"origin":10590,"position":1},"title":"An Unwell World? Michelle Atherton speaks at Association of Social Anthropologists conference","author":"Kirsty Christer","date":"09\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Michelle Atherton was invited to contribute to the Association of Social Anthropologists conference at SOAS, London last month.\u00a0The 2023 ASA conference \u2018An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode\u2019 focused on the world we live in today. Her practice-based presentation explored how undertaking a natural burial for a close relative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Michelle Atherton Low Frequencies","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/05\/MA-Low-Frequencies-ASA-2023.png?fit=1200%2C708&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/05\/MA-Low-Frequencies-ASA-2023.png?fit=1200%2C708&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/05\/MA-Low-Frequencies-ASA-2023.png?fit=1200%2C708&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/05\/MA-Low-Frequencies-ASA-2023.png?fit=1200%2C708&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/05\/MA-Low-Frequencies-ASA-2023.png?fit=1200%2C708&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12439,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atherton-errant-vibrations-underground-research-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":10590,"position":2},"title":"Michelle Atherton presents ‘Errant Vibrations with the Underground’ research at Bath Spa University symposium","author":"Amy Lander","date":"11\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Michelle Atherton was invited to present her research \u2018Errant Vibrations with the Underground\u2019 at Fiction Machine IV Symposium at Bath Spa University considering methods of fiction and personification within art practice to engage with, and give voice to, more than human lifeforms and materials. Michelle\u2019s exploratory paper was based on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/09\/Michelle-Atherton-Image-from-Errant-Vibrations-with-the-Underground-2023-1-e1694422615875.png?fit=889%2C291&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/09\/Michelle-Atherton-Image-from-Errant-Vibrations-with-the-Underground-2023-1-e1694422615875.png?fit=889%2C291&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/09\/Michelle-Atherton-Image-from-Errant-Vibrations-with-the-Underground-2023-1-e1694422615875.png?fit=889%2C291&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2023\/09\/Michelle-Atherton-Image-from-Errant-Vibrations-with-the-Underground-2023-1-e1694422615875.png?fit=889%2C291&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7449,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atherton-digital-ecologies-bath-spa\/","url_meta":{"origin":10590,"position":3},"title":"‘Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines’ – Michelle Atherton presents her ‘Repository of Irrational Gestures’ at symposium at Bath Spa University","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"18\/07\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines Senior Fine Art Lecturer Michelle Atherton presented her research project The Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIGs) in the form of a performance lecture at the Digital Ecologies II Symposium: Fiction Machines, hosted by The Centre for Media Research at Bath Spa University on Tuesday 16\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Image courtesy of Michelle Atherton - Digital Ecologies Symposium, Bath Spa University banner","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-07-ATHERTON-Digital-Ecologies-II-Fiction-Machines-banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-07-ATHERTON-Digital-Ecologies-II-Fiction-Machines-banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-07-ATHERTON-Digital-Ecologies-II-Fiction-Machines-banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/07\/2019-07-ATHERTON-Digital-Ecologies-II-Fiction-Machines-banner.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5627,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/as-much-about-forgetting-viborg-symposium\/","url_meta":{"origin":10590,"position":4},"title":"‘As Much About Forgetting’ Symposium – Saturday 03 November 2018","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"03\/11\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: Please see here a short video by postgraduate student Jan Hopkins, giving a glimpse into the As Much About Forgetting\u00a0exhibition. AS MUCH ABOUT FORGETTING SYMPOSIUM Viborg Kunsthal, Denmark Saturday 03 November,\u00a011AM - 5PM Contemporary art is absorbed by the\u00a0past, maybe like never before, at least not in the same\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Exhibitions"","block_context":{"text":"Exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/exhibition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Banner image for 'AS MUCH ABOUT FORGETTING' - an exhibition at Viborg Kunsthal, also featuring logo of Viborg Kunsthal","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/09\/ATHERTON-MCCORMACK-2018-09-Viborg-As-Much-About-Forgetting.jpg?fit=890%2C291&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/09\/ATHERTON-MCCORMACK-2018-09-Viborg-As-Much-About-Forgetting.jpg?fit=890%2C291&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/09\/ATHERTON-MCCORMACK-2018-09-Viborg-As-Much-About-Forgetting.jpg?fit=890%2C291&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/09\/ATHERTON-MCCORMACK-2018-09-Viborg-As-Much-About-Forgetting.jpg?fit=890%2C291&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8683,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/transmission-2018-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":10590,"position":5},"title":"Transmission ‘In Conversation’ – 2018-2019","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"01\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Transmission\u00a0is an annual series of lectures and symposia, now in its fifteenth year, and is a collaboration between Fine Art, the Art & Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, and\u00a0Site Gallery. Convened by Sharon Kivland in 2001,\u00a0Transmission\u00a0was developed collaboratively with Lesley Sanderson from 2001 to 2004, and with Jasper\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Events"","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Transmission 2018-2019 Banner","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/02\/2018-TRANSMISSION.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/02\/2018-TRANSMISSION.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/02\/2018-TRANSMISSION.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/02\/2018-TRANSMISSION.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}