The landscape swallows our histories is a joint show by artists Amanda Rice and Jo Pester showcasing a new collaborative 8mm analogue film, alongside their radio play, Magical Body, which will be activated as a performance during Culture Night.
The landscape swallows our histories is a joint show by artists Amanda Rice and Jo Pester showcasing a new collaborative 8mm analogue film, alongside their radio play, Magical Body, which will be activated as a performance during Culture Night.
Opening reception – Culture Night 2025, 19th September, 6-8pm
With special live performance at 6.30pm
The landscape swallows our histories is a joint exhibition by artists Amanda Rice and Jo Pester showcasing a new collaborative 8mm analogue film, alongside their radio play, Magical Body, which will be activated as a performance during Culture Night.
The film explores the geological, technological, human and more-than-human traces left behind at Knock Iveagh — a neolithic burial site in Northern Ireland. Comprising burial cairn and green energy solutions, multiple points of time collide within this ritual landscape: ancient pollen particles, cremated bone fragments, charcoal dating back to 3060BC, local residents, green capitalism, techno hubris. A shared terrain, haunted by both the past and pressing possibilities of imagined futures.
The film works with processes of archaeoacoustics and Stone Tape theory which use sound to extract communications from ancient materials. The artists’ bodies act as soundboards for the landscape, trespassing both material borders of landownership and temporal borders across time.
Amanda Rice is an artist and filmmaker based between London and Belfast. Her films are a combination of observational documentary techniques and staged scenarios with both investigative and nonlinear storytelling which explore material histories related to ecological subject matter. Amanda’s films have been presented at EVA International Biennial (Ireland); Flux Factory (New York); Eastlink Gallery (Shanghai); CCA Glasgow; BFI Film Festival (London); Irish Film Institute (Dublin). Awards include, Edward Allington Memorial Prize and the Next Generation Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland. She is an MA graduate of the Slade School of Art.
Jo Pester is a research-led artist filmmaker based in Bristol, often working in a cross-disciplinary capacity with researchers and academics. Since completing an MA at the Slade School of Art, she has presented work in The Unlikely Journal For Creative Arts; Raven Row Gallery (London); Exposed Arts Projects(London); Casa da Dona Laura Gallery (Lisbon); Videosport Returns (Canada); and the BF Artist Film Festival IX (London and Lancaster). Jo was recently awarded the Developing Your Creative Practice grant from the Arts Council of England.
