Hind, Claire and Wilsmore, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1584-6239 (2025) The Mobilities of Deep Time: An Anthro-apology from The Long Dead Stars. Mobility humanities, 4 (1). pp. 138-156.

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Abstract

This paper discusses the artistic practice of electronic dance poets The Long Dead Stars in relation to walking-arts (human mobility) and the movement of rock (non-human mobility), contextualising an environmental agenda through a walking-arts inspired aesthetic that playfully but seriously attunes with earth materials. Exploring the significance of aesthetics, we ask “how might an artistic collaboration with rocks, with Earth, enable a non-othering, where rock and human are equal?” Through practices such as channelling, deep listening, ludicerious aesthetics, scanning and dithering, we consider how aesthetics can contribute to a successful human-rock partnership. As is right when trying to repair a broken relationship, in this case between the human and non-human, we start with an apology, an Anthro-apology, before exploring how aesthetic practice might move the relationship forward.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.23090/MH.2025.01.4.1.009
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general > NX456.5.P38 Performance Art
School/Department:	School of the Arts
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/9899

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