Body Stones and Other Bodies Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/body-stones-and-other-bodies Body Stones and Other Bodies is a series of conversations led by artist alfonso borragán with artist Sarah Bayliss. These discussions explore the strange gems generated inside our bodies: kidney stones, bladder stones, gallstones, rhinoliths, pancreatic stones, and sialoliths. The stones, sedimented within us, defy conventional definitions. Neither stone nor tissue, they exist in a state of in-between. These ambiguous entities, currently housed in the UCL Pathology Museum, represent the "other body"—the otherness of our matter, and maybe a possible material form of Spinoza's trans-individual. © 2025 UCL Minds 18fe8379-c13d-5a57-a4df-608a244d296a no en Fri, 28 Feb 2025 05:45:09 -0800 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:03:11 -0800 https://img.transistor.fm/2TrvdXdsYRdD9HcAO-LY_t4ZIs-mSM2d_EgY_wLj0ic/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNGRm/YmM1ZDUxNTIyOGE4/YjRjZjFhMDE0YTFm/MDhlMS5qcGVn.jpg Body Stones and Other Bodies episodic UCL Minds Body Stones and Other Bodies is a series of conversations led by artist alfonso borragán with artist Sarah Bayliss. These discussions explore the strange gems generated inside our bodies: kidney stones, bladder stones, gallstones, rhinoliths, pancreatic stones, and sialoliths. The stones, sedimented within us, defy conventional definitions. Neither stone nor tissue, they exist in a state of in-between. These ambiguous entities, currently housed in the UCL Pathology Museum, represent the "other body"—the otherness of our matter, and maybe a possible material form of Spinoza's trans-individual. Body Stones and Other Bodies is a series of conversations led by artist alfonso borragán with artist Sarah Bayliss. art research, body stones, geology, archaeology UCL Minds No No THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE 4 4 THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE full 9318c926-8763-461a-9872-9aced13a5239 https://share.transistor.fm/s/8db806a4 In this chapter we talk with the social anthropologist Roger Sansi. Roger has worked on Afro-Brazilian culture and religion, the concept of the fetish, and on contemporary art. His publications include the books Fetishes and Monuments, Sorcery in the Black Atlantic, Economies of relation: Money And Personalism in the Lusophone World. One of Roger’s important researches has been on the animist religion Candomblé, which we discover more about in our conversation, exploring the subtle borders between the visible and invisible, the material and immaterial.

Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: Roger Sansi
Producer: UCL Arts and Sciences

]]> In this chapter we talk with the social anthropologist Roger Sansi. Roger has worked on Afro-Brazilian culture and religion, the concept of the fetish, and on contemporary art. His publications include the books Fetishes and Monuments, Sorcery in the Black Atlantic, Economies of relation: Money And Personalism in the Lusophone World. One of Roger’s important researches has been on the animist religion Candomblé, which we discover more about in our conversation, exploring the subtle borders between the visible and invisible, the material and immaterial.

Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: Roger Sansi
Producer: UCL Arts and Sciences

]]> Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:18:21 -0800 UCL Minds UCL Minds 2169 In this chapter we talk with the social anthropologist Roger Sansi. Roger has worked on Afro-Brazilian culture and religion, the concept of the fetish, and on contemporary art. His publications include the books Fetishes and Monuments, Sorcery in the Black Atlantic, Economies of relation: Money And Personalism in the Lusophone World. One of Roger’s important researches has been on the animist religion Candomblé, which we discover more about in our conversation, exploring the subtle borders between the visible and invisible, the material and immaterial.

Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: Roger Sansi
Producer: UCL Arts and Sciences

]]> art research, body stones, geology, archaeology No MINERALOGY EXTRACTION AND SYNCHRONICITY 3 3 MINERALOGY EXTRACTION AND SYNCHRONICITY full 568ccb2f-d95f-4e45-a6c4-e24909aed37d https://share.transistor.fm/s/24c18415 In this chapter we talk with the artist, programmer, writer and performer Martin Howse. Martin explores connections between the earth, its living organisms, geophysical phenomena, software, and the human psyche, working with speculative hardware based on environmental data in open physical systems, code that investigates the layers of abstraction, free software and situational performances and interventions. During the last years Martin has been exploring the geological within the body in projects like Tiny Mining or Becoming Geological. We talk with Martin to find out more about body mineralogy, extraction, synchronicity and immortality.

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 34'58''
Language of episode: English
Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: Martin Howse
Producer: UCL

]]> In this chapter we talk with the artist, programmer, writer and performer Martin Howse. Martin explores connections between the earth, its living organisms, geophysical phenomena, software, and the human psyche, working with speculative hardware based on environmental data in open physical systems, code that investigates the layers of abstraction, free software and situational performances and interventions. During the last years Martin has been exploring the geological within the body in projects like Tiny Mining or Becoming Geological. We talk with Martin to find out more about body mineralogy, extraction, synchronicity and immortality.

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 34'58''
Language of episode: English
Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: Martin Howse
Producer: UCL

]]> Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:16:33 -0800 UCL Minds UCL Minds 2099 In this chapter we talk with the artist, programmer, writer and performer Martin Howse. Martin explores connections between the earth, its living organisms, geophysical phenomena, software, and the human psyche, working with speculative hardware based on environmental data in open physical systems, code that investigates the layers of abstraction, free software and situational performances and interventions. During the last years Martin has been exploring the geological within the body in projects like Tiny Mining or Becoming Geological. We talk with Martin to find out more about body mineralogy, extraction, synchronicity and immortality.

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 34'58''
Language of episode: English
Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: Martin Howse
Producer: UCL

]]> art research, body stones, geology, archaeology No PRESERVATION, COLLECTION AND BIOGRAPHIES 2 2 PRESERVATION, COLLECTION AND BIOGRAPHIES full d3f6e695-497f-434f-82d2-63eaa0d8f70b https://share.transistor.fm/s/87e9776f In this chapter we talk with Hannah Cornish, curator at the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL with Thomas Kador, Lecturer in Creative Health on the UCL Arts & Sciences programme. Hannah provides intellectual access to a collection of 68,000 specimens. She designs and facilitates museum teaching, collaborating with researchers and artists, managing collection documentation, and working on events, exhibitions, and projects. Thomas has a background in archaeology and chemical engineering. His research and teaching interests include object-based learning, culture, health and wellbeing, public and community-based approaches to heritage and everyday practices. Together we discuss body stones as liminal objects, their preservation, collection, and biographies. We explore the many layers of meaning that can be read and see what we can add to their story.

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 46'34''
Language of episode: English
Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss

]]> In this chapter we talk with Hannah Cornish, curator at the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL with Thomas Kador, Lecturer in Creative Health on the UCL Arts & Sciences programme. Hannah provides intellectual access to a collection of 68,000 specimens. She designs and facilitates museum teaching, collaborating with researchers and artists, managing collection documentation, and working on events, exhibitions, and projects. Thomas has a background in archaeology and chemical engineering. His research and teaching interests include object-based learning, culture, health and wellbeing, public and community-based approaches to heritage and everyday practices. Together we discuss body stones as liminal objects, their preservation, collection, and biographies. We explore the many layers of meaning that can be read and see what we can add to their story.

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 46'34''
Language of episode: English
Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss

]]> Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:15:40 -0800 UCL Minds UCL Minds 2795 In this chapter we talk with Hannah Cornish, curator at the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL with Thomas Kador, Lecturer in Creative Health on the UCL Arts & Sciences programme. Hannah provides intellectual access to a collection of 68,000 specimens. She designs and facilitates museum teaching, collaborating with researchers and artists, managing collection documentation, and working on events, exhibitions, and projects. Thomas has a background in archaeology and chemical engineering. His research and teaching interests include object-based learning, culture, health and wellbeing, public and community-based approaches to heritage and everyday practices. Together we discuss body stones as liminal objects, their preservation, collection, and biographies. We explore the many layers of meaning that can be read and see what we can add to their story.

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 46'34''
Language of episode: English
Presenter:alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss

]]> art research, body stones, geology, archaeology No GEOLOGICAL MATERIAL 1 1 GEOLOGICAL MATERIAL full e9e3b9fe-171b-470e-b26c-b5724f8f8e15 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9e4a1bdf In this chapter we talk with the Geologist David Dobson. David is a Professor of Earth Materials at UCL. His research focuses on high-pressure physical property measurements, from sudotakalytes in the Earth's crust to mantle reology and deep earthquakes, as well as the reologys of magma and terrestrial planetary cores. Out of the lab, he enjoys being out in the mountains, unusually migrating north towards the colder climes of Scotland for the winter. We'll discover more about his reasons for this as David explains the formation of body stones as a geological material in the following conversation…

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 34'14''
Language of episode: English
Presenter: alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: David Dobson
Producer: Arts and Science - University College London

]]> In this chapter we talk with the Geologist David Dobson. David is a Professor of Earth Materials at UCL. His research focuses on high-pressure physical property measurements, from sudotakalytes in the Earth's crust to mantle reology and deep earthquakes, as well as the reologys of magma and terrestrial planetary cores. Out of the lab, he enjoys being out in the mountains, unusually migrating north towards the colder climes of Scotland for the winter. We'll discover more about his reasons for this as David explains the formation of body stones as a geological material in the following conversation…

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 34'14''
Language of episode: English
Presenter: alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: David Dobson
Producer: Arts and Science - University College London

]]> Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:14:36 -0800 UCL Minds UCL Minds 2054 In this chapter we talk with the Geologist David Dobson. David is a Professor of Earth Materials at UCL. His research focuses on high-pressure physical property measurements, from sudotakalytes in the Earth's crust to mantle reology and deep earthquakes, as well as the reologys of magma and terrestrial planetary cores. Out of the lab, he enjoys being out in the mountains, unusually migrating north towards the colder climes of Scotland for the winter. We'll discover more about his reasons for this as David explains the formation of body stones as a geological material in the following conversation…

Date of episode recording: 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z
Duration: 34'14''
Language of episode: English
Presenter: alfonso borragán and Sarah Bayliss
Guests: David Dobson
Producer: Arts and Science - University College London

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