Event overview
Hark to Bounty! Manifestations in (of) The Forest of Bowland: Turning away or mutual orientation?
Led by Laura Burns, Morag Colquhoun, Warren Harper, Bridget Kennedy with invited guests Eva Knutsdotter/Isik Sayarer (Fourthland) and Janet Strachan.
During this seminar reflections on an encounter with a form of existence (the river) will be shared. Examining it as part of an improvisational artistic enquiry into networks, nonscalability and stewardship.
In January 2019 one curator- and three artist-researchers/explorers/adventurers attempted to enter into a dialogue with the landscape of north eastern Lancashire. With Elizabeth Povinelli’s Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (2016) as company they ate, slept, walked, talked along the River Wyre - the river. They took and gave back; witnessed and were witnessed.
How do we listen simultaneously to both human and nonhuman worlds?
How can we be 'open to the quirky nature of nonhuman existents'?*
How do we respond to Povinelli’s suggestion that we might 'refashion bodies and landscapes into mutually obligated bodies'?*
And how may stewardship, planetary and/or nonscalable approaches function in one’s practice in relation to these questions?
In this open and discursive event we will diverge and coalesce around what has arisen through, before and after, January’s encounter.
* Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (2016)
Reading & Preparation
Please come prepared having read exerpts from the key text, and dipping into the additional texts.
Key Text
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism, 2016
Chapter 1: The Three Figures of Geontology
Chapter 3: The Fossils and the Bones
Chapter 4: The Normativity of Creeks
Additional texts:
Gabrielle Hecht, Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene: On Waste, Temporality, and Violence, 2018
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, On NonScalability: The Living World is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales, 2012
Nicola Triscott, Curating Contemporary Art in the Framework of the Planetary Commons, 2017
Linda Hogan, We Call it Tradition, Ed. The Handbook of Contemporary Animisms, 2015
Dates & times
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28 Feb 2019 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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