{"id":11340,"date":"2022-12-16T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2023-05-11T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:07:24","slug":"michelle-athertons-the-invite-the-impetus-the-chat-featured-in-art-earth-borrowed-time-death-dying-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/michelle-athertons-the-invite-the-impetus-the-chat-featured-in-art-earth-borrowed-time-death-dying-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Atherton’s ‘The Invite, The Impetus, & The Chat’ featured in art.earth Borrowed Time: Death,\u00a0Dying and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

image by art.earth<\/em><\/p>\n

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A new piece of writing by Michelle Atherton has been published in Matt Osmond & Richard (Eds.)\u00a0Borrowed Time: Death,<\/i>\u00a0Dying and Change\u00a0<\/i>art.earth, Kingsbridge, Devon, England 2022.<\/p>\n

The book\u2019s overall premise is that:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018we\u2019re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure, its every life system beginning to fray and unravel under civilisation\u2019s weight. We witness its collapse every day now, in new\u00a0stories of cataclysmic weather events, of lives lost, of flora and fauna weirded, disrupted, gone.\u00a0However incipiently or unconsciously, we live at a time of collective grieving \u2013 no life exempt from the consequences of this relentless devastation and what it has set loose.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2018Borrowed Time, on death dying & change\u2019 is nevertheless a celebration: a gathering of\u00a0disparate voices from across the globe coming together online from October 31 to November 3, 2021. These voices use many registers and tones to delve into the depths of\u00a0living with and dealing with death and dying with joy as well as with sadness. Borrowed Time is a space to explore questions pertaining to death, dying and change, and to ask\u00a0what dying has to teach us about living well, and living sustainably.\u2019\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

This unusual and extraordinary book has contributions from 43 authors, across continents.<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Michelle\u2019s contribution explores how a gut-response to a friend\u2019s off-hand comment and a very personal experience of the unexpected\u00a0death of her mother\u00a0at home led to a\u00a0virtual gathering of strangers, an event hosted by art.earth, to celebrate those no longer living. The detailing of this sequence of events though a partial, fragmented structure –\u00a0The Invite, The Impetus<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Chat – \u00a0<\/i>is an attempt to be less bounded, to not follow a neat linear, rational trajectory.<\/i>\u00a0To explore, by way of Bayo Akomolafe\u2019s comment that \u2018death is not monolithic\u2019[1]<\/sup><\/a>, how private experiences of death might transect with a current moment of an intensified sensitivity to death, of humans (the pandemic, social injustices, war) and across other species (environment changes and other impacts). This time seems to highlight the permeability between private and public experiences of death registered across the human and the non-human.<\/p>\n

In the difficulties of experiencing a death and in celebrating lives there is also the kernel of a gift, an invitation to think and act differently, to reimagine possibilities for\u00a0now<\/i>, possibilities that were unsought, but that might be begun through an assembly, a communal sharing of tributes to the dead through a gathering.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Bayo Akomolafe\u00a0A Certain Kind of Dying<\/i>\u00a0in Keynote Borrowed Time Symposium 31.10.21<\/p>\n

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The Borrowed Time book can be found on the art.earth website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

image by art.earth   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 existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure, its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20701,"featured_media":11341,"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":[139,143],"tags":[1648,1796,1795,109,264],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-admrc","tag-art-earth","tag-borrowed-time-symposium","tag-fine-art-research","tag-michelle-atherton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/12\/BT-book-cover-spread-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1216&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2WU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10590,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atherton-borrowed-time-rowan-tree\/","url_meta":{"origin":11340,"position":0},"title":"‘Live from the Rowan Tree and the International Space Station: A Celebratory Gathering’ – Michelle Atherton in conversation at the Borrowed Time symposium","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"29\/10\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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