Kourion: Earthquake House (2018) [multi-component output with contextualising information]
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3386
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- NiMAC [Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre], Nicosia, Cyprus
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.5136170
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Kourion: Earthquake House uses photography to consider the relationship between ancient seismic disaster and contemporary archaeological discovery; the found body as museum artefact; and the place of finding as a repository of knowledge. This project is part of a long-term enquiry that considers the relationship between volatile seismic geology and the human-cultural landscape, at the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates.
This research involved an extended critical dialogue and exchange of ideas between a group of internationally diverse artists and curators. The collective ambition was to generate new and original perspectives and understanding as part of the Ar[t]chaeology: Intersections of Photography and Archaeology Project, led by the
International Association of Photography and Theory, European University, Cyprus. Kourion: Earthquake House examines layers of archaeological excavation and the subjective interpretation of catastrophic seismic histories at Kourion – a Roman city in south-west Cyprus, destroyed by an earthquake in 365 AD. It catalogues the discoveries of human and animal remains – now transformed into the status of museum artefacts – and re-presents them in parallel with images made at technological sites of Digital Seismic Monitoring. The preserved bodies of ancient earthquake victims – and the landscape from which they were taken – are also
shown in the context of current archaeological excavation and discovery.
The early development and testing of photographic material began between 2013- 2014 at sites in Greece and Turkey, followed by further research at Kourion in 2018, facilitated by the Cyprus Department of Antiquities. The photographic survey of Digital Seismological Network Stations was facilitated by the Cyprus Geological
Survey Department.
Kourion: Earthquake House was shown as part of the Ar[t]chaeology: Intersections of Photography and Archaeology exhibition (2018). Images from the series – and from the earlier Helike-Maeander (2014) series were included in the 2-volume publication that coincided with the exhibition.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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