Event:

Practicing Landscape Symposium: Contentious Landscapes
Reading Landscape Research Group

Event Type:

Research Presentation

Location:

Online via Zoom – link sent by email to registered guests

Open:

11 Dec 2020
Friday,
13:30 - 14:45

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'Aasivissuit' (2020)
Camera: Ulannaq Ingemann, Director: Jasper Coppes

Practicing Landscape Symposium: Contentious Landscapes

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Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation
Reading Landscape Research Group Symposium
6 November - 11 December 2020

Session 6: Contentious Landscapes
Friday 11 December 2020 via Zoom

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Contentious Landscapes is the closing theme and session 6 of Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation. Led by three distinct contemporary art practices, our final panel draws out the tensions and legacies of between the human and non-human environment, including sustainability, interventions, conservation and ecology. 

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), ‘Mud’

Respondent: Susan Brind (GSA)

 

Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation is a symposium organised by the Reading Landscape Research Group, formed by artist-academics from the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art. The symposium will take place over six Fridays, from 6 Nov – 12 Dec 2020. The format of the Symposium includes two invited Keynote speakers – Ingrid Pollard and Dr Louise Purbrick – and four thematic sessions chaired by a respondent.


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