Dr Wood Roberdeau
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My background in the art world has directed me to develop a more theoretical or philosophical approach to contemporary creative practices within the wider environmental humanities. My writing and pedagogy have been grounded by the spatial theme of dwelling or ‘inhabitation’ and new concepts of political ecology or ‘cohabitations’ following twentieth-century eco-criticism. I am particularly interested in questions concerning cultural production and reception in times of climate crisis and activism that explore a poetics of encounter, observation, and participation.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London 2008
- MA in Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London 2002
Research interests
My research turns to environmental studies, everyday aesthetics, eco-phenomenology, and emerging discourses within the fields of New Materialism and Speculative Realism. Using these coordinates, I consider the activation of visual art within philosophical post-humanism, particularly in terms of subjectivity and agency, the ontology of objects and materiality, cultivation and agriculture, temporal scale effects, and geopoetics.
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Featured publications
2018:
'After Baruchello: Agricultural Encounters in Contemporary Art'
In: Ben Stringer, ed. Rurality Re-imagined: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers and Wild Things. Novato, California: ORO Editions/Applied Research & Design.
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups/Projects
Conferences and talks
2019:
'Experiments in Eco-poiesis: The Long-term Praxis of herman de vries'
Experimental Engagements, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts 33rd Annual Conference, University of California, Irvine, 7-9 November
2019:
'Feed Our Progress'
Sated, Visual Cultures Society and a/political, Goldsmiths, 21 May
2019:
'Cohabiting the Microcosm and Macrocosm'
Calculative Environments, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, 26 March
2019:
'Eco-Aesthetic Opacity and the Moving Image'
Darkness, Island Dynamics, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 13-17 January
2018:
'Monochrome Green: On Eco-Aesthetics, Reductionism and Abstraction'
Green, The European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts 12th Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-16 June
2017:
'Time and Environment in The Survivalist'
Out of Time, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts 31st Annual Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, 9-12 November
2015:
‘Nature vs. Culture: Xenotext and the Poetic Limit’
After Biopolitics, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts 29th Annual Conference, Rice University, Houston, 12-15 November
2015:
'Untitled'
What Does Climate Change? 80 Years of Environmental Politics – Left and Right, Platypus Affiliated Society, Goldsmiths, 23 October
2015:
‘Readymade Rurality and Ecological Non-knowledge: Imagining the Art Farm’
Re-imagining Rurality, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, London, 27-28 February
2014:
‘Sites of Vital Materiality: Art History’s Apiaries and Ecologies of Everyday Life’
Art History and Ecology, Association of Art Historians 40th Anniversary Conference, Royal College of Art, London, 10-12 April
2013:
‘Centralizing the Periphery: Social Art, Eco-aesthetics and Liminal Space’
Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian, University of York, York, 26-27 September
