PROGRAM

PROGRAM OF THE EVENING

17:00 – 18:00
Conference by Glaciologist Guillaume Jouvet UNIL-CIRM
18:30 – 19:30
Meal at the Cabane du Grand Mountet
19:30 – 20:30
Performance Reading and Screening by Artists from the TSOEG collective

PRACTICAL INFORMATION 

Make sure to book a meal and an overnight stay at the Cabane du Grand Mountet: here

A WORD FROM THE PARTICIPANTS

Solving an old riddle through glacier modelling
In March 1926, four young men disappeared from the great Aletsch glacier under unknown circumstances. The skeletons of three of them were discovered 86 years later on the glacier tongue. What happened in 1926? In November 1946, a plane crashed on top of the Gauli glacier. Its wreckage was left behind and quickly engulfed by the ice. When and where will the plane finally emerge? During the last glacial maximum, a number of erratic boulders originating in the southern Valais were transported by the huge Rhône glacier to the Solothurn region. How can we explain the fact that these blocks – then on their way to Geneva – were diverted northwards more than 20,000 years ago?
In this talk, I’ll try to answer these questions using glacier modelling. To do this, we first need to understand the main glacial processes, such as ice dynamics, accumulation and melting. Then we’ll see how to model these processes and their interactions using fluid mechanics and numerical simulation. The model will not only help us to solve old riddles, but also to simulate the evolution of the Aletsch glacier over the 21st century according to different climate change scenarios, and to reconstruct glacier dynamics during the last glacial cycle (the last 120,000 years).
_Guillaume Jouvet

The Glacier and the Rock
A live performance using projected imagery, spoken word and literary readings, takes the audience on a poetic journey to the high features of the Haute-Savoie in France. Through a detailed survey into the structures and systems of Alpine glaciers in the Mont-Blanc massif, this work is an investigation into accelerated change, collapsing environments and the transportation of material.
“Deflated of ice mass | Heavy with debris | Loose rock – weathered | Geology in its undoing – and future making | A small orange marker  – shows passage | Across the moraine | A place of two states – of mobile – and solid – matter.”
_Laroche (aka Luce Choules) 

CO-ORGANIZERS AND PARTNERS OF THE EVENT

UNIL-CIRM
Cabane du Grand Mountet

SENSITIVE ATMOSPHERES
We are the Weathers
2nd edition ALTER- 2023

Who are the artists? 
TSOEG Collective
TSOEG – Temporal School of Experimental Geography.
François Leo Benner (aka Roisner), Luce Choules (aka Laroche), Laura Harrington, E. Jackson, and Carlo Rizzo express themselves through music, installation, painting, writing, performance and video. Fieldwork is at the heart of this transdisciplinary group’s research and creations.

Counter-cartography project
We are the Weathers
During their stay in Anniviers, the members of TSOEG will focus on the atmospheric phenomena that shape the valley’s physical dimensions, emotions, culture and spirituality, but which escape conventional maps and scientific data modeling. Their work will highlight the relationships between past actions and future adaptations in a high-mountain environment.

Come and meet them at ALTER- summer events.