Event overview
Jill H. Casid presents an aesthetic tactics of "landscape in the deformative," mining the resilient powers of the negative as vital resources.
With Jorella Andrews and Jill H. Casid (Professor of Visual Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA).
How might we live our dying on a dying planet in a way that contests its terms? Drawing on work from her book project Necrolandscaping, Casid offers an aesthetic tactics of landscape in the deformative, in which the volatile, strangely resilient powers of the negative are mined as vital resources for a Necrocene ethics. What Casid calls “care for death" elaborates the practice of transversal vulnerability, extending the book’s thinking with experimental art practice in the art of dying beyond the limits of what is considered grievable death in order to imagine and enact other scenes of care within the Necrocene.
This event is part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2020: Visual Cultures Now: Field Reports
Biographies
Jill H. Casid is Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies. A theorist, historian, and practicing artist, she is currently at work on a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Since the publication of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005) which received the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss award, she continues to write on postcolonial, queer and feminist approaches to landscape while pursuing work on the history and theory of photography and the materializing effects of imaging with Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) and approaches to the global with Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014).
Jorella Andrews is a Reader in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Having trained as a fine artist and then as an art theorist, her academic work focuses on the relations between philosophical inquiry, the image-world, and art practice. Her books include Showing Off! A Philosophy of Image (2014) and The Question of Painting: Re-thinking Thought with Merleau-Ponty (2018) both published by Bloomsbury. Her current book in preparation has the working title of How to Turn Around Trouble: Aesthetic Strategies for Real Change.
Image: Kang Seung Lee, Garden, 2018, film still. Courtesy: the artist and One and J, Seoul. Reproduced with permission.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Oct 2020 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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