The online symposium 'Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation' is organised by the Reading Landscape Research Group, formed by artist-academics from the School of Fine Art, Exhibitions Department and Design History Theory at the Glasgow School of Art.
Please see schedule, speakers' bios and book free tickets via Eventbrite: https://readingthelandscapesite.com/2020/11/03/practicing-landscape-land-histories-and-transformation-6-nov-11-dec-2020/
It will take place over six Fridays, from 6 Nov – 12 Dec 2020. The symposium comprises of two Keynote speakers – Ingrid Pollard and Dr Louise Purbrick – and four thematic sessions, each with three 20 minute presentations, chaired by a respondent from the GSA.
The symposium asks: How do contemporary art and other interdisciplinary practices engage with (and expand) the themes of Land, Histories and Transformation? How can such practices work with contested histories, identities and remoteness in specific locations? What do land and other material practices reveal in terms of transformation, heritage and sustainability? Which practical, creative and critical theoretical frameworks are currently being utilised to interrogate the politics of Land, Histories and Transformation? How can a reflexive curatorial process activate these themes?
The Symposium has four key themes:
- Wild spaces (including peripheral territories, deserts, forests or ideas of remoteness);
- Histories (including land ownership, commons, cultural perspectives, border territories, heritage and preservation);
- People and Place (including alternative voices and experiences of landscape including embodiment and auto-ethnographic practices);
- Contentious Landscapes (including sustainability, interventions, conservation and ecology).
Schedule:
SESSION 1
Fri 6 Nov 2020, 1.00-2.15pm
Keynote: Ingrid Pollard
Respondent Dr Tiffany Boyle (GSA)
SESSION 2
Fri 13 Nov 2020, 1.00-2.15pm
WILD SPACES
Dr Elizabeth A. Hodson, (Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies, GSA), ‘The Posthuman Sublime: The Art Practice of Katie Paterson’
Dr Nalini Paul, (Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies and Design History and Theory, GSA), ‘Embodying Language in Wild Spaces: Place, Memory and Transformation’
Sam Nightingale (PhD Candidate, Goldsmiths), ‘Salt: a crystal image of time’
Respondent Justin Carter (GSA)
SESSION 3
Fri 20 Nov 2020, 1.00-2.15pm
HISTORIES
Seán Laoide-Kemp (Masters by Research Student, IADT Dún Laoghaire), Landscape as Witness: Aftermath Photography, Oral History, and Ethnography in Representing the Public Works Scheme of the Great Irish Famine
Joe Crowdy (PhD Candidate, Oslo Centre for Critical Architecture Studies), ‘Writing Rack Fen: 1583-1606 and 2019-20’
Dr Frances Robertson (Lecturer, GSA) ‘Alien Introductions: trees, memory and landscape history’
Respondent Michail Mersinis (GSA)
SESSION 4
Fri 27 Nov 2020, 1.00 – 2.15pm
Keynote: Dr Louise Purbrick (School of Humanities, University of Brighton)
Respondent Dr Marianne Greated (GSA)
SESSION 5
Fri 4 Dec 2020, 1.00-2.15pm
PEOPLE AND PLACE
Dr Nicky Bird (GSA), ‘Raging: Revisiting Raging Dyke Network’
Jordan Whitewood-Neal (MRes student, University of Brighton), ‘Epistemological Hinterlands: Non-Normative Embodiment and Sublime Perceptions of Landscape’
Dr Jo Vergunst (Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen), ‘Exploring landscape decision-making with the arts: agency, scale and temporality’
Responsdent Dr Frances Robertson (GSA)
SESSION 6
Fri 11 Dec 2020, 1.30-2.45pm
CONTENTIOUS LANDSCAPES
Minty Donald (Professor of Contemporary Performance Practice, University of Glasgow), ‘Erratic Drift: approaching human geological performance’
Jane Brettle (Visual Artist, in collaboration with Robin Mason: Musician) ‘Mine - walking’
Jasper Coppes (Artist / Tutor Royal Academy of Art, The Hague), ‘Nature Represents Itself’
Respondent Susan Brind (GSA)
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