The Prospect of Immortality

The Impressions Gallery, Bradford has the opening of The Prospect of Immortality on Saturday 11 June from
2:00pm to 4:00pm. In his first major solo show "Murray Ballard offers an unprecedented insight into cryonics: the process of freezing a person after death in the hope that scientific advances may one day bring them back to life."  Magnum photographer Mark Power will open this exhibition at 2:00pm.

Guy Morgan

Darwin, dance and Bird Psychology

Have just been listening to Midweek on BBC Radio 4, where one of the guests is Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition at Cambridge University and "an expert in bird behaviour. She is also passionate about dance and now combines these two strands as the Rambert Dance Company's first 'Scientist in Residence'. She is working with the Rambert on a new production, "Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told" and will be at this year's Hay Festival."
Her previous work with the company was  Comedy of Change which celebrated Charles Darwin's 200th aniversary.

Guy Morgan

The Future's just gone - until next year

Unfortunately I wasn't aware of the Future Everything Festival in Manchester this week, but it sounds very interesting, particularly with its angle on the Arts  Listen to a piece on it within the most recent podcast on BBC World Service technology programme Click  to see what we've just missed.

Guy Morgan

Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey - Saturday, May 21st 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

Listen out for Between the Ears on BBC Radio 3 Saturday May 21st at 10pm:

"Anatomising a Portrait: An Epileptic Journey

Next on:

May 21st Saturday, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

Epilepsy affects 1 in 200 people but there are many public misconceptions and prejudices about the condition. In recent years neuroscience has begun to find out more about the brain's activities, and now it is possible to hear the sound of a brain having a fit. The sound of epilepsy is not a jagged rasping, not spikes of sound - but more like the sound of whale song, a plaintive cry for help, a call in the wild. How does an artist go about creating a work of art to reflect this?
Artist Susan Aldworth has been commissioned to make a series of artworks reflecting epilepsy for both St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster and the National Portrait Gallery; and in the pursuit of one portrait in particular she has placed centre-stage her close friend Max Eilenberg"

See some of her work

Guy Morgan