About
Glacial Hauntologies is an intra-disciplinary collaboration between glaciologists Elizbeth Case and Andrew Hoffman and environmental artists Hannah Perrine Mode and Tyler Rai.
Working across print, sound, textile, movement, and math, our work confronts male-dominated, colonial histories of Antarctic research by centering expansive, embodied, collaborative practices that create alternative relationships to, histories of, and ways of doing research about glacial change. This work includes recordings of dripping meltwater overlayed with sonified seismic data, large-scale, sewn cyanotype fabric collages, zines of body outlines for recording deep field experiences, and other multimedia work.
We aim to create new pathways that connect people to glaciers and polar ice sheets, exploring threads that science or artistic methods practiced alone could not fully address. For example, we ask: what is gained—or even ontologically transformed—when art and science are practiced together? How can art-science frameworks be used to create experiences and objects that bridge individuals to temporally and spatially distant locations (e.g., Antarctica, the Laurentide Ice Sheet), processes (e.g., ice melt, sea level rise, climate systems), and events (e.g., an iceberg calving, a measurement)? In blending these practices, we seek to make the remote and abstract tangible and immediate, offering new ways of understanding and relating to Earth's glaciers and ice sheets.
We are funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs #1738934.
Contact
We are actively seeking exhibition opportunities, collaborations , and funding related to polar art-science. If you want to get in touch about our work, collaborations, synergies, future projects, ideas, similar projects, funding, or anything else please email us at e.h.case[at]uu.nl, aohoffman[at]columbia.edu, hannahpmode[at]gmail.com, and tylerrai100[at]gmail.com.