Event

The UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) hosts the Place as Palimpsest [Yon kote tankou Palimpseste] Exhibition and Public Discussion by Dr Kwynn Johnson, Visual Artist and Haitian Studies scholar.

Be there at 10am for a public discussion as the Seismic Centre’s scientists talk with Dr. Johnson about Science and The Visual Arts and the connections to Haiti. Viewing is open to the public until 1pm.

To view a printable flyer, please click here.

About Place as Palimpsest [Yon kote tankou Palimpseste]

• “An exploration of vestiges of history as located in the geology of Cap Haitien, north Haiti … place is visually explored as a layered repository or ‘palimpsest’ of history, and comes to be known by excavating meanings in the present, in light of the past.” [Dr Kwynn Johnson - The Caribbean Quarterly - a Journal of Caribbean Culture. Vol.63. 2017]

• “[a] feature of the palimpsest is[indeed] the sense that earlier inscriptions are never quite erased, for these narrative inscriptions become part of the whole” [Prof. Paula Morgan]

• Hashtags:#geology #archaeology #deposits #stratification #earth #sedimentary #rocks #vestiges #archives #remnants #artefacts #fossil #roots #Antilles #Haiti #archipelago

• Trinidad Guardian Review: http://www.guardian.co.tt/life-lead/2017-06-01/vista-haitian-history?platform=hootsuite

•  The Caribbean Quarterly Journal: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00086495.2017.1352264