Hello all,
This Monday (23/2/15) at 4pm, Hilary Powell, Leverhulme Artist in Residence at UCL Chemistry, will give the 6th seminar of UCL Institute of Archaeology's 2015 series, entitled 'Demolition and Salvage Times'.
This may be of interest to many on the CHAT list and all are welcome to attend. The seminars take place every Monday 4-6pm in the Institute on the 6th Floor in room 612 and are followed by a wine reception. Also at the reception we will be hosting an
IoA Journals Evening, including the launch of
Papers form Institute of Archaeology vol. 24 (online, open-access
here) and representatives of the new
Journal
of Contemporary Archaeology.
Please see the link below for a full list of upcoming seminars. Posters are available on request if you wish to publicise the event further.
Seminar Abstract
Hilary Powell is Leverhulme Artist in Residence at UCL Chemistry. Her current project,
Deconstructing Demolition, investigates the potential of using reclaimed materials from demolition sites to create images and texts through experimenting with tradtional print techniques including intaglio and stone lithography. Travelling from scrap
metal yards to trading floors, the project follows the journeys of these materials and charts discoveries about their physical properties, the stories behind their making and the creative salvage and reuse of the castoffs of industrial decline and regeneration.
The project questions established systems of value and use as it works in direct collaboration with often overlooked places and materials, histories, people and stories. In this lecture Hilary will present some of the findings from the project so far.
Seminar series overview
Future Pasts | Present Futures: Critical Conversations on the ‘Contemporary’ across disciplines
This seminar series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary conversations on concepts of time, materiality and space through a focus on the temporal, ontological and spatial implications of the ‘contemporary’.
While it has become customary to think of the ‘contemporary’ as a sort of prefix to denote a range of different disciplines’ engagements with, or explorations of, current topics of social, ecological or political concern, the ways in which different disciplines
provide particular and varied lenses through which to reflect on and actively contribute to processes of composing and designing the contemporary has rarely been considered. Similarly, while we have become accustomed to the idea that heritage is something
of the past, conserved in the present, for the future, the ways in which contemporary archaeological, architectural, artistic, heritage-related and museological practices might be implicated in actually assembling or producing the past, present and future
has also rarely been discussed.
This seminar series will critically explore the idea of the ‘contemporary’ and its relational notions of the past, present and future, through case studies drawn from archaeology, architecture, art, geography and heritage. In doing so, will seek to generate
new debates and trans-disciplinary conversations between and across these fields.
This seminar series is organised by the Heritage Studies Section and the Archaeology-Heritage-Art research network at the Institute.
Best regards,
Jonny