Texts explore the multifaceted conceptual practice of the artist Ilana Halperin. Ilana Halperin
(b.1973) is an artist who shares her birthday with an Icelandic volcano. Working through the
aesthetics of geology since the late 1990s her multifaceted conceptual practice unearths the
intimate poetics of rocks minerals and body stones. Halperin's fieldwork has led her from
erupting volcanoes in Hawaii to petrifying caves in France and geothermal springs in Japan.
Felt Events surveys the last two decades of Halperin's output (1999-2020) representing a
mid-career moment of reflection. Felt Events includes critical and experimental writing from
international curators Lisa Le Feuvre and Naoko Mabon art historians Andrew Patrizio and
Dominic Paterson anthropologist Jerry Zee and writer Nicola White. It also offers examples of
Halperin's performance lectures some of which appear in print for the first time. This
collection introduces Halperin's work to new generations of artists writers and environmental
activists--those who will shape the critical landscapes of the twenty-first century.