Event

Back by popular demand, The UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) hosts the Place as Palimpsest [Yon kote tankou Palimpseste] Exhibition by Dr Kwynn Johnson, Visual Artist and Haitian Studies scholar from 9am to noon.

To view a livestream of a discussion between the Seismic Centre’s scientists and Dr. Johnson about Science and The Visual Arts and the connections to Haiti, please click here.

For more information, please call 662-4659 ext. 409 or email info@uwiseismic.com.

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