Temporal Mapping
At Phalasarna, the ancient harbour now sits stranded above the sea, lifted out of the water by the great earthquake of AD 365. This lab works across colliding timescales:
the slow deep time of Quaternary fossils near Balos
the instantaneous rupture of a single seismic event
the layered human time of Venetian Chania
the contested memory held in Melidoni Cave
Scientists bring tools for dating and sequencing the past, and artists bring ways of compressing, stretching and narrating it. Together, participants ask how to visualise change that is both catastrophic and imperceptibly slow, and how mapping the past might change how communities picture their climate futures.
Lab Participants
Learn more about this labs participants by clicking on their image. Many of the researchers and partners work on several labs, and these connections are shown below.
Lab Journal and Updates
Throughout the lab, researchers, artists and partners reflect on their involvement in the project. View and follow lab updates here in the form of our shared lab journal.
Materiality: clay, stone and deep time in the potters' village of Margarites
10/10/26
Update
The EASE team
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The second EASE Artist Venturing Lab runs from 25 October to 1 November, following material through deep time: from cave scans and Bronze Age kilns to Minoan tombs, ancient trade and weaving.
Entanglements: a week in the caves, palaces and mountains of central Crete
10/10/26
Update
The EASE team
Author
On 18 October, artists, scientists and researchers gather in Zaros, below Mount Psiloritis, for the first EASE Artist Venturing Lab. Here is the week ahead, from live cave monitoring to the mountain cave of Zeus.
Lab journal content not yet available, but will be added after the lab start dates.