Glacial Hauntologies: an intra-disciplinary collaboration between glaciology and artistic practice

Interweaving scientific research with artistic practice, Glacial Hauntologies is an intra-disciplinary art-science collaboration that translates, subverts, and repurposes tools from many disciplines to explore geophysical data and glaciological archives. We are interested in how ice - past ice, current melt, and future glacial disappearances - reoccurs as a persistent hauntology across 21st century landscapes, scientific data, and day-to-day life.

Working across print, sound, textile, movement, archives, programming, 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, interactive glaciological data presentations, and other multimedia work.

We will present work generated from this collaboration, propose a framework for intersectional, transdisciplinary creative research, and discuss the outcomes of doing integrated artistic and scientific research.