Ep #6.1 Colliding Timescales | Worlding Podcast

While observing the extension of Berlin’s A100 City Highway that is being tunneled close to her home in Berlin-Neukölln, artist and writer Catherine Rose Evans collected rocks at the site which were glacial erratics deposited there during the ice age. In this episode Catherine shares her interest in geologic time and where this intersects with our own human timescales as found in our bodies, their materiality and our lived histories. Often we think of rocks as stationary, heavy things but this is only due to our perception of time. If one looks at a scale much larger than a human lifespan we can begin to understand that rocks have liquid histories and will one day return to a liquid form.

By researching and experimenting with the effects that different forces - light, weight, balance - have on materials Catherine can gain insight into how these forces likewise apply to us. How human bodies are also materials that are cycling, no different from rocks. 

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