Guest
Timothy Morton: Stuff Can Happen. Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory in 2014 and has collaborated with Björk, Haim Steinbach and Olafur Eliasson. As part of her collaboration with Navine G. Khan-Dossos on the Miracle Marathon’s stage design, artist Sophia Al-Maria has taken the keying colours within the design (made up of the digital RGB colour palette of red, green and blue), otherwise known as chroma keys, to add a special-effects technique to a selection of recordings. In post-production she has grafted film onto the chroma key colours of the backdrop. The effect generated by the film onto the Marathon’s archive materials infuses the stage with a new visual dimension.
