{"id":1010,"date":"2018-10-03T20:55:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T00:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:50:42","slug":"interview-with-visiting-scholar-kyveli-mavrokordopoulou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/2018\/interview-with-visiting-scholar-kyveli-mavrokordopoulou\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Visiting Scholar Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veronika Kratz, Carleton University<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is a visiting scholar at Carleton from \u00c9cole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales in Paris. She is visiting for the fall with Carleton Climate Commons and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture. During this time she\u2019s facilitating a workshop, \u201cOn Waste and Time<\/a>,\u201d which discusses waste, its temporal effects and the influence that time has in our perception of waste. I sat down to talk with her about her research and what she\u2019s up to at Carleton in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Discussing her in-progress dissertation research, Mavrokordopoulou describes her work as looking at \u201cartistic and cultural responses that seek to make tangible or confront the notion of deep time.\u201d This realization of the age of the Earth represents \u201ca shift in our perception of time,\u201d which Mavrokordopoulou connects to current discussions surrounding the Anthropocene as a geological epoch \u2013 another perspective on time. Mavrokordopoulou is trained in art history, and so her work centres on various works of art which \u201clook at how these perceptions of the deep past of the Earth are projected into the deep future in the context of climate change\u201d. She is particularly interested in tracing how contemporary artists extend the time of the realisation of the work, rendering the artistic process beyond human control.<\/p>\n

Currently in the third year of her PhD program, Mavrokordopoulou is writing the first section of her dissertation, which serves as the focus for the \u201cOn Waste and Time\u201d workshop. In this area of her research, she\u2019s looking at markers for deep geological disposal sites, which house high-level radioactive waste. These markers are an attempt to address the danger of nuclear waste, which remains toxic for billions of years, in human temporalities by building a kind of warning sign for the disposal sites.<\/p>\n

One such marker is Testbed, a land art project proposal created in 2018 by Tei Carpenter. Through its use of air capture farms, Testbed \u201cdevelops through time as a new material formation, like a sculpture in the making.\u201d Testbed is composed of the build up of interactions between surrounding minerals at the site and CO2 to create a sculpture. Mavrokordopoulou explains that it actually uses<\/em> CO2, another toxic matter like the nuclear waste, in a way that \u201cdoubles the disturbance\u201d of the area. Mavrokordopoulou also makes it clear that her goal isn\u2019t to \u201cevaluate these works from a technological point of view,\u201d or their effectiveness in warning against toxicity over time. Instead, she looks at the ideas around time and materiality that are opened by these works. For example, she points to the potential \u201cblurring of the boundaries between human-made and nature-made, which is precisely what\u2019s happening in a nuclear waste storage space.\u201d<\/p>\n

In coming to Carleton, Mavrokordopoulou is excited to work with other people interested in climate change research and how climate concerns are influencing scholarship across the humanities. That\u2019s why, in facilitating her workshop, she hopes to explore the interdisciplinary application and impact of climate change into the manifestations of nuclear temporality and deep time\u2014a conversation which opens up in her research. \u201cIt\u2019s a topic that can bring people from very different fields,\u201d she says, reaching those even outside of the university, such as those working in or involved with policy or activism. \u201cI\u2019m really interested in gathering these different people around the same table to discuss a topic that concerns us all in different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mavrokordopoulou also hopes to highlight current work on waste being done at Carleton, such as the Heritage in Reverse Symposium<\/a> happening at Carleton October 26-27th<\/sup>, which focuses on the relationship between architecture and heritage conservation and waste, demolition, and salvage. In fact, the next meeting of the workshop will centre on questioning architectural ruins as waste and their complex temporalities.<\/p>\n

The \u201cOn Waste and Time\u201d workshop is open to all, with three remaining sessions on October 4th<\/sup>, 18th<\/sup>, and November 3rd<\/sup>, to be held from 3-4:30PM in St. Patricks room 201D. Please email Mavrokordopoulou at kyveli.mavrokordopoulou@ehess.fr for access to the reading materials and to join what promises to be an intriguing\u2014and important\u2014conversation.<\/p>\n

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