Join the Library for the opening reception of Shared Magma: An American and Swedish Collaboration on Sisterhood and Sister Ore, an exhibit, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 4 p.m. EDT at the John Hay Library followed by a screening of the film Ritual at 5 p.m. EDT in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library.

Free and open to the public.

Shared Magma: An American and Swedish Collaboration on Sisterhood and Sister Ore

Iron Rock Hill in Cumberland, RI and Taberg in Småland, Sweden are ancient formations of a rare eruptive rock with shared properties.

The exhibit Shared Magma: An American and Swedish Collaboration on Sisterhood and Sister Ore celebrates the intersection of Late Proterozoic geology and a contemporary friendship between Swedish artist Kajsa G. Eriksson and Robin Wheelwright Ness, Senior Library Technologist in Digital Preservation at the John Hay Library. Featuring original works created from iron-based pigments by Eriksson, Shared Magma explores how deep time, shared lifetimes, and the future entangle.

Kajsa G. Eriksson’s research and the international exchange of the exhibition Shared Magma was conducted with support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Ritual

Ritual is a 55-minute long experimental film by Kajsa G. Eriksson, Lena Berglin, and Maria Magnusson that explores the greed for energy as a social, material, and historical phenomenon. The film highlights how life in urban centers is dependent on nature and the people living in sparsely-populated communities in Sweden. Ritual features eleven Swedish sites of extraction juxtaposed against the ever increasing dependence on digital technologies.

Now through the end of the day, Thursday, September 10, you can watch Ritual online for free through this link: filmfreeway.com/Ritual929

Distributor Filmform (SWE)

The screening of Ritual is arranged with support of Kulturbryggan.

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