Cells and Viruses

by Stephen Walker

Welcome to the fifth podcast in the IAS series 'Life in the Time of Coronavirus'. Here you can listen to Dr Stephen Walker, Head of Architecture at the University of Manchester discuss a series of works by the British artist Helen Chadwick, entitled 'Viral Landscapes'. Using her working notes, here read by Chloe Julius, Walker invites us to consider the position of viruses in the continua amongst environment, bodies and cells, and, provocatively, to think through Chadwick's causational flips from the virus in us to us in the landscape.

Music by Small Haus and the BBC Sound Archive. ​​​​​​​

Speaker: Stephen Walker, University of Manchester. Chadwick's notes read by Chloe Julius (UCL)

Introduction by Tamar Garb

Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar

Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart

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