Event overview
Can the uncovering of connected pasts, geographies, and proposed futures lead to embodied, coherent or actionable effects in the present?
What methodologies might artists employ to challenge hierarchies of knowledge systems, engaging in an interscalar practice?
How are relationships between dominant / countercultural / indigenous cultures to be understood and decolonized?
What systems and language can be used to grasp the unprecedentedness of collapsing or mutating political systems, ecological crisis, and emerging regimes of control?
Building from Simon O’Sullivan’s concept of Mythopoesis, the group aims to interrogate the viability of Speculative Fabulation as a tool of social and institutional transformation. Colquhoun, Harper, Khôra, and Cussans will put forth propositional correlations from their practices, traversing vast distances in time and space.
This is an Art Research Seminar, run as part of the Art Research Programme at Goldsmiths College and supported by the Mountain of Art Research (http://m-a-r-s.online).
Morag Colquhoun is an artist based in rural Wales. She works site-specifically with communities in environmental contexts and is interested in developing work that emerges from a zone of uncertainty, exchange and dialogue. Her practice-based project Trofannolismo reimagines a planetary Tropicália from a perspective of rural Wales. She is currently working with Welsh communities while focusing on communities in South America that are known to her.
Warren Harper is a curator and researcher from and based in Essex. His work has reflected on the recent and historical cultural shifts of his home county, from its architecture, industry and how communities engage with or are impacted by these changes. He is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths Art Department where his practice-based curatorial research project investigates the nuclear landscapes of the Blackwater Estuary and Foulness Island.
Andrea Khôra is an artist and researcher based in London. Her practice seeks to comprehend the malleability of reality on personal and societal scales. Her practice-led PhD research project New Sight: The Alchemy of Surveillance into Resistance in Near Future Worlds looks at the history of surveillance, specifically focusing on the mining of occult knowledge systems by the CIA in the cold war as well as the correlation between 1960s-70s utopian countercultures and the rise of Surveillance Capitalism.
John Cussans is an artist, arts educator and writer working across the fields of contemporary art, cultural history and critical art theory. His work explores the legacies of colonialism and surrealism in art, cinema and popular culture from ethnographic, science fictional and social psychology perspectives. His book Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex (MIT/Strange Attractor 2017) explores the uses of Haiti as locus for Euro-American fears about African culture, spirituality and revolutionary excess in the Americas and their sublimation into popular horror tropes. johncussans.com
Dates & times
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15 Nov 2019 | 10:00am - 1:00pm |
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