Borrowed Time:

on death, dying & change

October 2020 – November 2021

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We’re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure, its every life system beginning to fray and unravel under civilisation’s weight. We witness its collapse every day now, in new stories of cataclysmic weather events, of lives lost, of flora and fauna weirded, disrupted, gone. However incipiently or unconsciously, we live at a time of collective grieving – no life exempt from the consequences of this relentless devastation and what it has set loose.

Borrowed Time, on death dying & change is nevertheless a celebration: a gathering of disparate voices from across the globe coming together online from October 31 to  November 3. These voices use many registers and tones to delve into the depths of living with and dealing with death and dying with joy as well as with sadness. Borrowed Time is a space to explore questions pertaining to death, dying and change, and to ask what dying has to teach us about living well, and living sustainably.

Join us as we engage with musicians and composers, historians, doctors, carers, artists,  poets and writers, dreamers, priests, philosophers, animal researchers, ecologists and  more. Our keynote presenters include the international speaker and activist Bayo  Akomolafe, choreographer Paul Michael Henry (who presents a new Butoh-inspired  dance on film, and Canadian film Director Jennifer Abbott whose latest film The Magnitude of All Things is receiving accolades and awards with screenings at film  festivals across the globe.

Above all, then, Borrowed Time is a celebration of life, one that sets out to embrace and welcome all of its messy joys and travails.

Now that the main symposium (October 31 to November 3) is over we are busy processing the recordings to make them available online. Watch this space.

And to wrap up the Borrowed Time theme we are offering a number of events linked with Remembrance Day for Lost Species with our friends at ONCA Gallery. We will announce details very soon.

Revisit Borrowed Time events (as they become available)

Borrowed Time events archive/gallery

November 30, 2021

Remembrance Day for Lost Species

Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30 is a chance each year to explore the stories of extinct ... Read More

November 30, 2021

In conversation with…Caroline Hickman

Join us for the last in the series of events that have been Borrowed Time: on death, dying & ... Read More

November 29, 2021

Film: The New Corporation

The New Corporation r​eveals how the corporate takeover of society is being justified by the sly rebranding of corporations as socially ... Read More

November 3, 2021

Postgraduate Forum (14 videos)

Extinction is an online postgraduate symposium organised by Dartington Trust and art.earth. It will include paper and practice-based research presentations on ... Read More

November 2, 2021

Keynote: Jennifer Abbott

A screening of Jennifer Abbott's acclaimed film The Magnitude of All Things will be followed by an interview and ... Read More

October 31, 2021

Symposium (24 videos)

The main symposium Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change took place from October 31 to November 2 2021 ... Read More

October 31, 2021

Keynote: Bayo Akomolafe

What happens when health, wellbeing, and recovery are caught up with particularly troubling modes of corporeal production and imperial stabilities? ... Read More

October 31, 2021

Keynote: Paul Michael Henry

The premiere of a new dance film My whole face sort of fell off  I don’t know what to tell ... Read More

October 21, 2021

Keynote: Moving with the Trouble

A new dance film from choreographer Beatrice Allegranti

How long does mourning last? How long are the ... Read More

October 15, 2021

Event: A Celebratory Gathering

We invite you to A Celebratory Gathering, designed and facilitated by Michelle Atherton, on Friday October 15 at 18.30 BST ... Read More

September 29, 2021

In conversation: Sophie Strand

In the next in our series of Borrowed Time conversations, we introduce American writer Sophie Strand. Sophie is a writer ... Read More

July 2, 2021

In Conversation : Sophie Pierce

Sophie Pierce is a writer and broadcaster who worked as a reporter and producer for the BBC for over ... Read More

June 23, 2021

Keynote: Dr Rachel Clarke

Dr Rachel Clarke gives the first Borrowed Time keynote address on June 23, 2021 ... Read More

April 2, 2021

Charlotte Ducann with Caroline Ross & Dom Bury

First Fridays are our monthly series of informal artist get-togethers where the conversation may stray from the triassic to ... Read More

December 11, 2020

In Conversation: Stephen Jenkinson with Christos Galanis

A conversation between Stephen Jenkinson and Christos Galanis on December 11 2020 ... Read More

November 20, 2020

In Conversation: Yuli Somme with Richard Povall

A conversation between Yuli Somme and Richard Povall in November 2020 ... Read More

October 30, 2020

In Conversation: Pascale Petit with Mat Osmond

A conversation between Pascale Petit and Mat Osmond on Friday October 30 starting at 13.00 GMT ... Read More

News

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Moving with the Trouble at LISFF

For those of you who missed the chance to watch Beatrice Allegranti's wonderful dance film Moving with the Trouble there ... Read More

Information for Delegates

This page is to help introduce you to our online Borrowed Time. We are not using Zoom, as some of ... Read More

Borrowed Time and Covid: an important announcement

With hindsight, perhaps this decision was inevitable. After many rebounds from dismay to hope and back again, we have decided ... Read More

Oliver Burkeman on Death & Dying

Just happened to catch part of Oliver Burkeman's Monday morning series on BBC Radio 4 called The Power of Negative ... Read More

Queer Death Society zine

This mixed media creation is made up of creative and academic contributions from people around the world on the subjects ... Read More

Rachel Clarke keynote

On Friday June 23, we were delighted to have Dr Rachel Clarke as the first keynote speaker for Borrowed Time ... Read More

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Oliver Burkeman on Death & Dying

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Queer Death Society zine

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Mourning our pets

Our friend Yuli Somme from Bellacouche has sent this beautiful piece I remember years ago my daughter cradling her dead ... Read More

Goodness and acceptance

Thanks to Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson for sharing these words from Iris Murdoch: “Goodness is connected with the acceptance of real ... Read More

Ear plugs…

There was once a tradition in Hookland of sextons and gravediggers wearing special ear plugs to prevent the dead whispering ... Read More

Sophie Pierce in The Observer

Sophie Pierce is in conversation with art.earth’s Richard Povall on Friday April 9. She will be talking about her son ... Read More

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