Alison Scott & Fiona Jardine Scratching the Surface: Workshop

Through a study of and responses to Grassic Gibbon’s text, Scratching the Surface explores the coding of storytelling, hauntings of objects and technologies, uses of analogy, relationships between books and objects as records of sound and productive relationships between notation and activation.

Sunday's workshop focuses on archeo-acoustics. Join Allison and Fiona us for a group reading session of The Stele from Atlantis by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. The group will then create wax tablets to inscribe and use to make textured prints.

In his story The Stele from Atlantis, Lewis Grassic Gibbon explored the fantastical, pseudo-scientific idea that ancient pottery might harbour recordings. Later in the exhibition, based on this story and research in the pseudo-scientific field of archaeo-acoustics, Alison Scott and Fiona Jardine will produce a new publication and host a launch event with performances. The project examines the relationship between vessels, encoding and recording.