Beyond the Geographies of War: Exploring Art and Peace
Questions of geography - of space, place, home, environment, landscape and
territory - are a recurring theme in the responses of artists to war. But
how do they figure in the relationship between art and peace? How can we
understand the role that spatial practices and spatial themes play in
creating peace as well as in articulating resistance to war and violence?
This workshop will explore these questions with reference to the Iraq war
but also branch out to consider the relationship between geography, art
and peace more broadly. With talks by artists Rashad Selim and Emily Johns
and academic Bernadette Buckley (Goldsmiths, University of London), and
touching on issues of oil, water and ecology as well as politics and war,
the workshop provides an opportunity to reflect on how art, activism and
critical spatial practices can inform one another.
UCL Department of Geography, Wednesday 27th March 2013, 11am-4pm.
Attendance is free. RSVP to Alan Ingram, UCL Department of Geography,
[log in to unmask] All are welcome, but if places are short priority will
be given to nonacademic participants.
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