Artistic duo will launch their new exhibition at South Tipperary Arts Centre on Culture Night

The Landscape Swallows Our Histories is a duo show by artists Amanda Rice and Jo Pester showcasing a new collaborative 8mm film work, alongside their radio play, Magical Body, which will be activated as a performance during Culture Night in Tipperary.

It will be screened at the South Tipperary Arts Centre on September 19 from 6 to 8pm and the exhibition will run until October 25.

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The new film being presented is an 8mm analogue film that reactivates these traces as a way to depict the layers of geological, technological, human and more-than-human time frames across Knock Iveagh, a historic neolithic site containing a burial cairn in Northern Ireland where ancient burial grounds and green energy solutions share the same terrain. As such, many kinds of time meet at Knock Iveagh - ancient pollen particles, cremated bone fragments, charcoal dating back to 3060 BC, local residents, green capitalism and techno hubris.

All landscapes are haunted by both past time and the possibilities of imagined futures. The film works with processes of archaeoacoustics and Stone Tape theory which employ sound as a method for extracting communications from ancient materials. The artist’s bodies act as soundboards for the landscape, as they trespass both material borders of landownership and temporal borders across time.