Conversation

Liverpool – Paula Kolar Paula took Rocky Climates to a beach in Liverpool in August 2021. In this clip she shows us fragments of stone that surround her. Later she put hydrophones in the sea so that we could listen to the way that water and stones create sound. Video and sound quality in all

  Morecambe Ellie Barrett  

Lochrutton Sarah Casey     This rocky conversation took place on the sides of Lochrutton a former glacial lake behind my home in Galloway, with boulders bearing the traces of striation. For the past two years I have been working on a project called ‘Emergency!’ about the provocations of objects emerging from glacial ice high in the

Mossy rocks   Nina Wakeford & Sarah Simblet  A conversation in two places, the moss covered rocky garden at Brantwood, and mosses cultivated on a drystone wall. The sound of two dry stones hitting each other drew us into the process of finding the right stones for the wall.

Rydal Caves  Jen Southern    The conversation took place in the evening at caves formed by historical mining activities above Rydal water in Cumbria. Before going into the cave I read a page from N.K. Jemisin’s ‘The Fifth Season’, a novel in which some people have an extra sense that allows them to feel the

Oslo gravel – Rebecca Birch

Jen Southern Red Screes  This conversation took place at the foot of Red Screes, near Ambleside in Cumbria. Further up the mountain there are unstable screes where mountain rescue workers regularly have to help stranded or injured hikers. There’s a car park nearby, so in some ways its relatively accessible, but its a steep and challenging

Oslo path – Rebecca Birch

Norber Erratics – Sarah Casey