Artists Emii Alrai and Tanoa Sasraku, who both show work in the exhibition Listening to the earth, talk with anthropologist Haidy Geismar and environmental historian Robert Suits. The evening begins with a tour of the show led by its curator, Hammad Nasar, before the conversations open up into a roundtable and Q&A.
Alrai works with material investigation to explore new ways of uncovering the past, drawing on the medieval practice of heart burial from the time of the Crusades. Sasraku's work continues her interest in death and the body, through oil extraction and garment construction, and includes a Terratype made by hand-rubbing earth pigments. The roundtable is chaired by Jagjeet Lally, Associate Professor of the History of Early Modern and Colonial India at University College London.
